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Scientists set their sights on chromatin - the DNA-protein complex that packages DNA into chromosomes in the cell - to better understand how the genome works.
… coding regions of the genome. This information - found in sequences of DNA - controls genes by turning them on and off, … differs among individuals. "We know that the regulatory sequences - switches - are incredibly context specific. They … of Excellence in Genomic Science, CEGS, Jeffery Schloss, requlatory sequences, epigenomes, mouse embryonic stem cells, …
Educational Resources
Ancestry-informative markers are sets of polymorphisms for a DNA sequence found in different frequencies between populations from different geographical regions.
Educational Resources
Epigenetics is an emerging field of science that studies heritable changes caused by the activation and deactivation of genes without any change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism.
About Genomics
Resources for understanding the first truly complete sequence of the Y chromosome, the final human chromosome to be fully sequenced.
… human genome sequence 20 years ago, gaps were left in the sequences of every chromosome, and in the race to sequence …
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The Genome: Unlocking Life's Code exhibition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the initial sequencing of the human genome.
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NIH researchers have sequenced the whole genome of a dog native to Sardinia, Italy, and discovered in it clues about the migration of humans to the area.
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The goat has contributed its DNA to a new method for high-quality, low-cost genome reconstruction, one that will be useful for reading human and other genomes.
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North Asians may be more closely related to Eastern and Northern Europeans than previously thought.
… (NHGRI), made the connection by comparing the whole-genome sequences of 175 ethnic Mongolians to existing genetic …
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Researchers developed a technique that will aid in a more accurate reconstruction of human genomes.
… reads. These reads are then sorted using shorter marker sequences based on which parent they were inherited from. "For these cattle, about 92 percent of the markers sequences are shared by both parents," said Dr. Phillippy. …
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Extending noninvasive prenatal screening to all 24 human chromosomes can detect genetic disorders that explain miscarriage and abnormalities during pregnancy.