Structure and function of the human genome

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The sequenced (gray filled) and unsequenced (white) portions of the human genome, listed by chromosome; numbers in % are the proportion of chromosomes that are heterochromatic and unsequenced for this reason. Statistics are from the NCBI Build 35, UCSC assembly of May 2004, Assembly 17, data from http://www.genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/stats.html#hg17.

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  1. Genome Res. 15: 1759-1766

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