The Human Genome Has Been Thoroughly Mapped For The First Time

Continuing to work at full speed to understand human nature and structure, the world of science has made another extremely important development. A team of nearly 100 international scientists collaborated with the research they published in the journal Science. For the first time in the world, they have succeeded in making a complete map of the human genome. announced.

In the most advanced study to date on this subject, scientists were able to map a large part of human DNA years ago. But because of the technology of that day Some parts of DNA could not be observed. Developing technology reduces this rate to a maximum of 8%. The expected development took place..

“It took more than 20 years but we finally made it”

University of Washington scientist Evan Eichler, who was involved in the current study and the original Human Genome Project, shared in his statement on the subject, “Some of the genes that make us uniquely human were actually in this ‘dark matter of the genome’ and were unknown. took more than 20 years but we finally made it.” he said.

Scientists believe that a complete map of the genome will give humanity a better understanding of our evolution and biology, as well as in areas such as aging, cancer and heart disease. will open the door to medical discoveries shared. Although it has been said that the entire human genome has been discovered several times before, scientists have stated that it is now a definite end.

The new study contains exactly 3 trillion 55 billion base pairs of a human genome. The study included gapless assemblies in all chromosomes except the Y chromosome, underscoring the errors in previous studies, and approximately including gene predictions from 1956, of which 99 were predicted to be protein-coding. 200 million new base pairs revealed.