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Why Did The Sequence Of The Y Chromosome Remain A Mystery Until Recently?

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (566+ words) The Y chromosome was the hardest to sequence because its DNA is packed with long repetitive stretches, called satellite DNA, and palindromes that short-read technology could not read accurately. It was finally completed in August 2023, when the T2T consortium published the…...