Behind the Scenes of a Major Genomic Discovery | Newswise: News for Journalists

Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI

The new pangenome reference is a collection of different genomes from which to compare an individual genome sequence. Like a map of the subway system, the pangenome graph has many possible routes for a sequence to take, represented by the different colors.

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Credit: Icahn Mount Sinai

Eimear Kenny, PhD, Professor of Medicine, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Icahn Mount Sinai, and one of the principal investigators and lead scientist of the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, is a co-author of the Nature papers that report on a recently completed draft human pangenome reference that better reflects human diversity.

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