the human genome is fully mapped, but who’s genome is this?

Question

There are differences between everyone’s genome, so when the human genome was mapped, who were they basing it off of?

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Answer 1

They sequenced the DNA from several people of European, Asian and African ancestries. And in the past few decades sequencing a genome has gone from billions of dollars down to about $1000 so many other peoples genomes have been sequenced.