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In research breakthrough, California scientists help decode entire human genome
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
An international team of scientists, led by geneticists at UC Santa Cruz and the National Institutes of Health, has published the first truly complete human genome, a dramatic advance in understanding the role of genetics in disease and evolution that closes the last gaps in cataloging the 3 billion paired molecules that make up our DNA.
The full genetic sequence — first reported last summer, but officially unveiled in the journal Science on Thursday — finally fills in the roughly 8% of the human genome that scientists had been unable to work out since publishing their first draft more than 20 years ago.
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