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14 May 2021

Mining the gaps of chromosome 8

The first gapless, telomere-to-telomere sequence of a human autosome, chromosome 8, is complete. Sequencing and assembly of the corresponding centromere in the chimpanzee, orangutan and macaque reveals details of its rapid evolution over the past 25 million years.

• Glennis A. Logsdon  ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2396-0656 ⁰ &
• Evan E. Eichler  ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8246-4014 ¹

1. Glennis A. Logsdon

   1. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.

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2. Evan E. Eichler

   1. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

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This is a summary of Logsdon, G. A. et al. The structure, function and evolution of a complete human chromosome 8. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03420-7 (2021).

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