2022.09.04

3,117,275,501 Bases, 0 Gaps

After 22 years, scientists have deciphered our genetic code

Sources: UCSC Genome Browser; “The Complete Sequence of a Human Genome,” by Sergey Nurk et al., in Science, Vol. 376; April 2022. Graphic by Martin Krzywinski

Sources: UCSC Genome Browser; “The Complete Sequence of a Human Genome,” by Sergey Nurk et al., in Science, Vol. 376; April 2022. Graphic by Martin Krzywinski

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