Scientists have finally managed to decipher the Irish genome. An article with the presented results of this work will soon be published in the scientific journal “Genome Biology”. Briefly, the results of the study can be found in the publication “New Scientist”.
During the study, the students used male DNA. Naturally, previously the national affiliation of the “donor” was determined by special genetic tests, because the DNA of each representative of a particular ethnic group contains many characteristic features. During the study, the specialists managed to read each nucleotide DNA 11 times, which, of course, is a fairly high degree of reliability.
In the Irish DNA, scientists discovered a number of characteristic features inherent only to the Irish-this is how about 200,000 losses or nucleotide inserts and about 3,000,000 one-nuclequetide polymorphisms (SNP or in Russian) were discovered. SNiP is considered a mutation in the genome that affects only one nucleotide. To date, scientists have compiled just huge SNiP bases. The reason for this was that in DNA these changes are often associated with ethnic characteristics or different diseases. When the researchers of the evolutionary history of peoples are determined, scientists are primarily oriented precisely on one -unique polymorphism.
In conclusion, we note that since the genetics have learned quickly and most importantly (for this kind of research) to find full -agricultural sequences inexpensively, they have already managed to decipher the “national genomes” of some peoples. So, for example, the researchers have already fully determined the full sequence of DNA of the African and Asian. And at the end of last year, Russian genetics announced that they have completed the decoding of the Russian genome.