Researchers have constructed the first Arab human pangenome reference.
They did so by analysing the genomes of 53 people from eight Arab countries – the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Syria and Yemen.
The research is published in Nature Communications and has resulted in millions of newly identified variants and over 111 million base pairs of previously unsequenced DNA, in genomic regions that were missing from widely used human references.
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