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Published online 5 October 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011011-1
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Core code cracked
Sequencers expose secret chromosome centre.
February's celebrations hid a dark secret: the human genome sequencers hadn't touched the hearts of our chromosomes. Now, at last, one chromosome's inscrutable midpoint, its centromere, has given up its genetic secrets.
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