The human genome is finally completely sequenced

20 years after the first draft of the human genome was completed, and less than a year after the first complete chromosome (X) was published, today the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium released a preprint detailing the first fully complete human nuclear genome sequence. All 3,054,815,472 bases, without any gaps.

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Two sister publications preprinted at the same time use this new genome sequence to study segmental duplications and epigenetics, respectively.

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