Some hard-to-crack genome areas carry genes that make us distinctly humans (VIDEO)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

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In the video, Evan Eichler and his graduate students describe their findings on human evolution, human diversity, and other aspects related to their lab's work on completion of highly repetitive regions of in the human genome.

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Randy Carnell and Zach Garcia

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