Human Genome Project: Wait, what does this mean?

>>8948062
centromere and telomere dna is basically useless
telomere is what gets cut when the cells divide continously

centromere is where the chromosomes bind to eachother when the cells divide

you can basically put anything in those sequences

don't worry about it

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What happened to being able to have one's personal genome sequenced for under $1000? A few years ago it was projected by some to even be as low as $10 by now. Did progress stop?

>>8948138
I payed a 100 usd Ca. for one of those heritage tests.

>>8948888
That's not full genome by a long shot.

>>8948898
Market forces bruh. People care about genealogy and diseases, and insurance companies would probably love to get a monopoly on the latter.

>>8948138
That's 1k (1000) not 10

>>8948138
There's no legal privacy protections for it. It's possible for an employer, landlord, etc.. to require a copy of your results if you've had your genome sequenced.

At this point you'd be kind of dumb to do it.

Besides, unless you're looking for specific mutations it's entirely useless.
>inb4 /pol/esmokers who don't understand genetics and the sorts of inferences one is able to make from them.

>>8948138
How much does it cost today?

>>8949807
The 23andme service charges 199 usd for a genetic analysis

First off that's a shity explanation. Heterochromatin and euchromatin are found throughout the genome, and while centromeres are definitely heterochromatin they're not the only heterochromatin.

Second, the reason we can't sequence those regions is because sequencing relies on stitching together reads to form a consensus sequence. That procedure is heavily dependent on having enough unique features across all your sequence reads that you can tell whether two reads are from overlapping regions or adjacent regions. Centromeres and telomeres are highly repetitive. It's basically impossible to construct accurate alignments unless you have insanely long reads, which only became feasible in the last few years.

>>8950604

have some reddit gold my friend...

...but srsly good explanation better than this >>8948077

>>8948077
>centromere and telomere dna is basically useless
>goes on to state why they are not useless

Found the retard!