The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

Rhie, Arang, Nurk, Sergey, Cechova, Monika, Hoyt, Savannah J, Taylor, Dylan J, Altemose, Nicolas, Hook, Paul W, Koren, Sergey, Rautiainen, Mikko, Alexandrov, Ivan A, Allen, Jamie, Asri, Mobin, Bzikadze, Andrey V, Chen, Nae-Chyun, Chin, Chen-Shan, Diekhans, Mark, Flicek, Paul, Formenti, Giulio, Fungtammasan, Arkarachai, Garcia Giron, Carlos, Garrison, Erik, Gershman, Ariel, Gerton, Jennifer L, Grady, Patrick GS, Guarracino, Andrea, Haggerty, Leanne, Halabian, Reza, Hansen, Nancy F, Harris, Robert, Hartley, Gabrielle A, Harvey, William T, Haukness, Marina, Heinz, Jakob, Hourlier, Thibaut, Hubley, Robert M, Hunt, Sarah E, Hwang, Stephen, Jain, Miten, Kesharwani, Rupesh K, Lewis, Alexandra P, Li, Heng, Logsdon, Glennis A, Lucas, Julian K, Makalowski, Wojciech, Markovic, Christopher, Martin, Fergal J, Mc Cartney, Ann M, McCoy, Rajiv C, McDaniel, Jennifer, McNulty, Brandy M, Medvedev, Paul, Mikheenko, Alla, Munson, Katherine M, Murphy, Terence D, Olsen, Hugh E, Olson, Nathan D, Paulin, Luis F, Porubsky, David, Potapova, Tamara, Ryabov, Fedor, Salzberg, Steven L, Sauria, Michael EG, Sedlazeck, Fritz J, Shafin, Kishwar, Shepelev, Valery A, Shumate, Alaina, Storer, Jessica M, Surapaneni, Likhitha, Taravella Oill, Angela M, Thibaud-Nissen, Françoise, Timp, Winston, Tomaszkiewicz, Marta, Vollger, Mitchell R, Walenz, Brian P, Watwood, Allison C, Weissensteiner, Matthias H, Wenger, Aaron M, Wilson, Melissa A, Zarate, Samantha, Zhu, Yiming, Zook, Justin M, Eichler, Evan E, O'Neill, Rachel J, Schatz, Michael C, Miga, Karen H, Makova, Kateryna D, Phillippy, Adam M (September 2023) The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome. Nature, 621 (7978). pp. 344-354. ISSN 0028-0836

URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37612512
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06457-y

Abstract

The human Y chromosome has been notoriously difficult to sequence and assemble because of its complex repeat structure that includes long palindromes, tandem repeats and segmental duplications1-3. As a result, more than half of the Y chromosome is missing from the GRCh38 reference sequence and it remains the last human chromosome to be finished4,5. Here, the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium presents the complete 62,460,029-base-pair sequence of a human Y chromosome from the HG002 genome (T2T-Y) that corrects multiple errors in GRCh38-Y and adds over 30 million base pairs of sequence to the reference, showing the complete ampliconic structures of gene families TSPY, DAZ and RBMY; 41 additional protein-coding genes, mostly from the TSPY family; and an alternating pattern of human satellite 1 and 3 blocks in the heterochromatic Yq12 region. We have combined T2T-Y with a previous assembly of the CHM13 genome4 and mapped available population variation, clinical variants and functional genomics data to produce a complete and comprehensive reference sequence for all 24 human chromosomes.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: bioinformatics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > Chromatin dynamics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > chromosome
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > chromosomes, structure and function > chromosome
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > chromosomes, structure and function
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > genomes
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > Chromatin dynamics > heterochromatin
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > telomeres
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Communities: CSHL labs > Schatz lab
SWORD Depositor: CSHL Elements
Depositing User: CSHL Elements
Date: September 2023
Date Deposited: 12 Oct 2023 16:08
Last Modified: 10 Jan 2024 21:00
PMCID: PMC138936
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/41203

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