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What do we do with two different human genome reference sequences?

It's going to be extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to merge the new complete human genome sequence with the current standard reference genome.

The source DNA for the new telomere-to-telomere (T2T) Human Genome sequence was a cell line derived from a molar pregnancy. This meant that the DNA was essentially haploid, thus avoiding the complications of sequencing diploid DNA which contains two highly similar but different genomes. The cell line, CHM13, lacks a Y chromosome but that's trivial since a complete T2T sequence of a Y chromosome will soon be published and it can be added to the T2T-CHM13 genome sequence [Telomere-to-telomere sequencing of a complete human genome].

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