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Sunday, 30 November 2025

We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person

Researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man to reveal a full picture of the genetic variation present within a person — known as mosaicism. Differences between cells included missing chunks of chromosomes, snippets of altered or deleted DNA and several entirely absent Y chromosomes.

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