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The genome sequence was generated from the assembly of over 40 million sequence reads, representing sevenfold coverage, from the C57BL/6J strain (B6) of Mus musculus. The draft contains almost 225,000 contigs, about 96% of the euchromatic genome, amounting to 2.5 Gb (making it 14% smaller than the human genome). There are over half a million orthologous landmark sequences in the two mammalian genomes, allowing the definition of extensive regions of conserved synteny. The mouse genome has increased numbers of lineage-specific repeat sequences, but less ancestral repeats than the human genome. Analysis of repeat sequences indicates that mice have a two-fold ...