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S4E06: It's Personal: Inclusive Research and Precision Medicine

Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar

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Developing Polygenic Risk Scores for Type 2 Diabetes

Most of the human genome was sequenced by 2003 like most of the AGTC base pairs more than 90 percent had been sequenced in 2003. There were some portions that were inaccessible to the technology at the time these very repetitive sequences weren't accurately sequenced. So as Mark mentioned the technology has gotten so much better that there have been groups working to complete sequencing every little last bit of the genomeso that we do have an absolute complete reference.

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