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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Main Authors: Nicolas Altemose, Karen H Miga, Mauro Maggioni, Huntington F Willard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4022460?pdf=render