pharmaphorum May 11, 2023
It’s been 20 years since the Human Genome Project published its first blueprint of human gene sequences, starting a new era of medical research, but now scientists have gone one better.
Enter the pangenome, a map that tackles one of the key limitations of the first iteration – namely, its lack of diversity, as most of the sequencing was done on DNA from one American male with European and African ancestry. It also covered around 92% of genetic material, with the remainder uncharted.
The first draft of the pangenome fills in those missing sections of the map, but also covers distinct genomes from 47 individuals from a diverse range of ancestries from all continents in the world, with the exception...
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