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Average Human Genome Carries Millions of Variants, New Research Shows


Researchers have produced the most comprehensive portrait to date of the ‘average’ human genome, drawn from the whole-genome sequences of nearly 900,000 adults in two large research biobanks: UK Biobank and the US-based All of Us program.

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