New methods detect subtleties in human genomes' repetitive landscapes

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 11:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have invented methods to scout the human genome's repetitive landscapes, where DNA sequences are highly identical and heavily duplicated. These advances, as reported today in Science, can identify subtle but important differences among people in the number and content of repeated DNA segments...

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