We Are All Mutants: Measurement Of Mutation Rate In Humans By Direct Sequencing

We Are All Mutants: Measurement Of Mutation Rate In Humans By Direct Sequencing:

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An international team of 16 scientists today reports the first direct measurement of the general rate of genetic mutation at individual DNA letters in humans. The team sequenced the same piece of DNA - 10,000,000 or so letters or 'nucleotides' from the Y chromosome - from two men separated by 13 generations, and counted the number of differences. Among all these nucleotides, they found only four mutations.