Scientists today publish the sequence of chromosome 1: the largest and last of the human chromosomes to be done and dusted. News@nature finds out what this latest milestone means.
Our number one, and biggest, chromosome has now been sequenced.
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Pearson, H. Human genome completed (again). Nature (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/news060515-12
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