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ReviewAmerican journal of human genetics2023

Envisioning a new era: Complete genetic information from routine, telomere-to-telomere genomes.

Karen H Miga, Evan E Eichler

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Review in American journal of human genetics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Karen H MigaDepartment of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. Electronic address: khmiga@ucsc.edu.
Evan E EichlerDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: eee@gs.washington.edu.

Funding

ELSI Administrative Supplement - Center for Human Reference Genome DiversityU01HG010971 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI EICHLER, EVAN, JARVIS, ERICH D · 2019 to 2023
$18.4M
Identifying and Characterizing the Full Spectrum of Haplotype-resolved Structural Variation in Human GenomesU24HG007497 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI Evan Eichler, Jan Oliver Korbel · 2019 to 2026
$17.2M
Sequence-resolved structural variation of human genomesR01HG010169 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Evan Eichler · 2018 to 2026
$4.5M
Telomere-to-telomere assemblies of human genomesR01HG011274 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI Karen Hayden Miga · 2020 to 2026
$4.5M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010169NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG011274NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG010971NHGRI NIH HHS U24 HG007497
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in long-read sequencing and assembly now mean that individual labs can generate phased genomes that are more accurate and more contiguous than the original human reference genome. With declining costs and increasing democratization of technology, we suggest that complete genome assemblies, where both parental haplotypes are phased telomere to telomere, will become standard in human genetics. Soon, even in clinical settings where rigorous sample-handling standards must be met, affected individuals could have reference-grade genomes fully sequenced and assembled in just a few hours given advances in technology, computational processing, and annotation. Complete genetic variant discovery will transform how we map, catalog, and associate variation with human disease and fundamentally change our understanding of the genetic diversity of all humans.

Indexed as

GenomicsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingGenome, HumanHumansSequence Analysis, DNATelomere

Identifiers

PMID37922882
PMCPMC10645551

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