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Thanks! By the way, when you say "you can download the human genome", presumably this is the genome of a specific individual whose DNA was sequenced? What per

Thanks! By the way, when you say "you can download the human genome", presumably this is the genome of a specific individual whose DNA was sequenced? What person is that?

amphitoky 10y ago
no, it is a consensus sequence determined by sequencing the genomes of several individuals. i do not know how many individuals were sequenced for hg38, but hg37 was derived from 13 individuals according to [1]. genomic regions with higher variability between individuals are annotated separately and are not represented in the main chromosomal sequence, but can be aligned to it as such. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_genome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_genome
ealloc 10y ago
You can download Craig Venter's genome here: http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/venter1/bigZips/ http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/venter1/bigZips/ However, the human "reference" genome (the updated main product of the Human Genome Project) is a patchwork of about 20 donors' genomes. Many(most?) of the donors are anonymous volunteers from Buffalo, NY, USA. http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/ http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/