Repetitive DNA and similar sequences are a sequencer's nightmare because the sequence is generated in pieces that must be matched up correctly to figure out the order of
the bases along each chromosome.
Not exact matches
Plant geneticist Catherine Feuillet of INRA - UBP in Clermont - Ferrand, France, and her colleagues have isolated one of wheat's 42
chromosomes and made a physical map of it, placing more than 1400 molecular landmarks
along its 995 million
bases.
Davis was able to analyze the resulting data on a
chromosome - by -
chromosome basis,
along with the frequency of the identified variants and the function of variants associated with each condition.