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Re:Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence by staycoolboy on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:27AM (#23855763)
I thought the human genome was mapped in 2003, when the Human Genome Project wrapped up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project

What's different about this?

Re:Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence by arm85 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:37AM (#23857284)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23852177 explains it, with a quote from the article. They weren't able to map the whole thing, because of repeating patterns. That's now starting to change.