Genomic characterization of large heterochromatic gaps in the human genome assembly.
The largest gaps in the human genome assembly correspond to multi-megabase heterochromatic regions composed primarily of two related families of tandem repeats, Human Satellites 2 and 3 (HSat2,3). The abundance of repetitive DNA in these regions challenges standard mapping and assembly algorithms, a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-05-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4022460?pdf=render |