This is the first time a chromosome has been fully sequenced. What are the implications of this for medicine and longevity? Comment your opinion below.
After about 24 years in the hands of Human Genome Project contributors, the human reference genome project, which aims to map our DNA, was moved to Genome Reference Consortium in 2004. Recently, for the first time, the Consortium’s latest issue of GRCh38 included a fully assembled chromosome X from end-to-end, or more accurately, telomere-to-telomere.
