The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome - Nature

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• Sal@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The human Y chromosome has been notoriously difficult to sequence and assemble because of its complex repeat structure that includes long palindromes, tandem repeats and segmental duplications. As a result, more than half of the Y chromosome is missing from the GRCh38 reference sequence and it remains the last human chromosome to be finished

  Oh wow. This is surprising! I thought the full human genome had been sequence a while ago.

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