{"id":164315,"date":"2023-05-21T06:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T11:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-new-genome-map-tries-to-capture-all-human-genetic-variation"},"modified":"2023-05-21T06:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T11:23:15","slug":"this-new-genome-map-tries-to-capture-all-human-genetic-variation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-new-genome-map-tries-to-capture-all-human-genetic-variation","title":{"rendered":"This new genome map tries to capture all human genetic variation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-genome-map-tries-to-capture-all-human-genetic-variation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now understand that having one map of a single human genome cannot adequately represent all of humanity,\u201d says Karen Miga, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a participant in the new project.<\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s genomes are largely alike, but it\u2019s the hundreds of thousands of differences, often just single DNA letters, that explain why each of us is unique. The new pangenome, researchers say, should make it possible to observe this diversity in more detail than ever before, highlighting so-called evolutionary hot spots as well as thousands of surprisingly large differences, like deleted, inverted, or duplicated genes, that aren\u2019t observable in conventional studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe now understand that having one map of a single human genome cannot adequately represent all of humanity,\u201d says Karen Miga, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a participant in the new project. People\u2019s genomes are largely alike, but it\u2019s the hundreds of thousands of differences, often just single DNA letters, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}