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Karen Miga: Filling in the missing piecesKaren Miga: Filling in the missing pieces

Karen Miga, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering, co-led an international team of scientists to sequence the first truly complete of a human genome, covering each chromosome from end to end with no gaps and unprecedented accuracy.

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Spotlight thumbnailA Breakthrough Achievement

The first truly complete sequence of a human genome has just been published in Science and is now accessible through the UCSC Genome Browser.

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