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In 2003, the Human Genome Project announced that it had successfully sequenced the entire human genome. That wasn’t quite true. Nearly 10% of human DNA was still missing from the map. Karen Miga, a geneticist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, co-founded an effort to sequence the missing DNA, which was recently completed.

Watch her explain why the last part of the genome is so important in the video below from Quanta Magazine and read the full story at: https://www.quantamagazine.org/karen-miga-fills-in-the-missing-pieces-of-our-genome-20210908/ #quantamagazine {{quantamagazine}}