There’s More Purpose to the Y Chromosome Than Believed
<p>Through incredible effort and collaboration, scientists created the first human genome in 2003. Assembling this simple text file took the combined work of researchers at labs around the globe, with an estimated cost of about $300 million.</p>
<p>But that genome was incomplete. It had a bunch of gaps, including one huge one — more than half of the Y chromosome, the male sex chromosome, was left as one big blank.</p>
<p>Now, twenty years later, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06457-y" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a research team</a> based around the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) have finally filled in the blanks and put out the first full sequence of a Y chromosome.</p>
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