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Mark asked in Science & MathematicsBiology · 3 years ago

Do HeLa cells still contain some parts of Henrietta Lacks DNA?

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    he present HeLa genome, or any other HeLa genomes, while derived from Henrietta Lacks’s genome is not her personal genome. There is no doubt that the majority of DNA sequences are identical between HeLa cells and Lacks’ original cells.

    However, HeLa cell genome and Lacks’s genome show very little similarity. Lacks’ genome originally contained 46 normal chromosomes while most HeLa cells have 70-90 chromosomes with over 20 translocations, some of which are highly complex involving multiple chromosomal rearrangements.

    Taken from - https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2013/09...

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