Multidimensional variation and population stratification across 8000 complete human centromeres
Yanqing Sun, Shijie Wan, Lei Nie, Dan Yu, Feifei Zhou, Yi Yang, Xiangyu Yang, An Liu, Quanyu Chen, Kezhi Fu, Qingyang Ni, Yaoxi He, Bing Su, Yafei Mao, Kai Ye, , Wu Dongya
Over 8,000 gapless human centromeres reveal population-stratified satellite-array, inversion and haplotype variation, multiple candidate kinetochore sites in 16.8% of centromeres, and single-base substitution rates comparable to flanking pericentromeres.
bioRxiv · Jul 24, 2026 · PreprintGenomics✦ In-depth digest