The benchmark for human diversity is based on one man’s genome. A new tool could change that.

Instead of looking at one single genome, researchers are mapping out “a network of possibilities.”
Phlip Kiefer | Dec. 16, 2021 | Popular Science
When scientists want to understand how individual human genomes vary, they turn to a single, central genetic sequence: the reference genome. That genome serves as a kind of standardized measurement, a yardstick, against which all other human variation can be measured. Read more of “The benchmark for human diversity

Last modified: Dec 20, 2021