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Pan Genome Map
May 27 , 2023
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- A recent study published in the Nature journal presents a pangenome reference map.
- It is built by using genomes from 47 anonymous individuals (19 men and 28 women).
- They are mainly from Africa but also from the Caribbean, Americas, East Asia, and Europe.
- Our genome consists of 23 different strings, each composed of millions of individual building blocks called nucleotides or bases.
- The four types of building blocks (A, T, G and C) are arranged and repeated millions of times in different combinations to make all of our 23 chromosomes.
- Genome sequencing is the method used to determine the precise order of the four letters and how they are arranged in chromosomes.
- Sequencing individual genomes helps us understand human diversity at the genetic level and how prone we are to certain diseases.
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