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Re:The human Y chromosome has been completely sequenced by alexvitkov on Friday August 25, 2023 @06:51AM (#37260206)
Thought so too, turns out we're right now
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Re:The human Y chromosome has been completely sequenced by throwawaymaths on Saturday August 26, 2023 @03:34PM (#37276079)
I'm not really sure what it even means to be 100% sequenced.

Does that mean that every possible polymorphism is accounted for?

Does that mean that 100% of possible polymorphic sites are known?

What about weird edge cases. You have a tandem repeat that is known, but in some small population of humans, there's two tandem repeats with an island of something else in there.

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