Genome sequencing of individual Korean offers opportunity to identify parts of sequence unique to Korean population

Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 08:02 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the Genomic Medicine Institute at Seoul National University in South Korea and Korean genetic sequencing firm Macrogen has conducted the most complete genome sequencing of a person from Korea to date. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they sequenced the genome and the medical benefits they believe will come from their work.

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