Susan M. Rock

TL;DR: The sequence of the maize genome reveals it to be the most complex genome known to date and the correlation of methylation-poor regions with Mu transposon insertions and recombination and how uneven gene losses between duplicated regions were involved in returning an ancient allotetraploid to a genetically diploid state is reported.

TL;DR: The male-specific region of the Y chromosome, the MSY, differentiates the sexes and comprises 95% of the chromosome's length, and is a mosaic of heterochromatic sequences and three classes of euchromatics sequences: X-transposed, X-degenerate and ampliconic.

TL;DR: Support for this work came from the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, The National Library of Medicine, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the Wellcome Trust, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

TL;DR: The euchromatic sequence of chromosome 7, the first metacentric chromosome completed so far, has excellent concordance with previously established physical and genetic maps, and it exhibits an unusual amount of segmentally duplicated sequence.

TL;DR: This work improved the accuracy of the human X-chromosome reference sequence through single-haplotype sequencing of ampliconic regions and corrected previously misassembled regions and identified new palindromic amplicons, leading to the conclusion that the evolution of human and mouse X chromosomes was bimodal.