ISSN 1662-4009 (online)

ey0020.12-1 | Genetics | ESPEYB20

12.1. A draft human pangenome reference

Liao Wen-Wei , Asri Mobin , Ebler Jana , Doerr Daniel , Haukness Marina , Hickey Glenn , Lu Shuangjia , Lucas Julian K , Monlong Jean , Abel…. Haley J , Garrison Erik , Marschall Tobias , Hall Ira M , Li Heng , Paten Benedict

Brief summary: The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium reports a first draft of the human pangenome reference due to replace the existing reference GRCh38 (1, 2). It is an updated, high-quality, graph-based, telomere-to-telomere representation of global genomic diversity including common variants (single-nucleotide variants, structural variants and functional elements).The human reference genome is the fundamental, open-access resource of modern human g...