" It took 20-plus years, but we finally got it done, " Eichler said.

“这花了20多年，但是我们终于完成了。”

Evan Eichler is a researcher at the University of Washington who took part in the latest effort.

艾文·艾希勒是华盛顿大学的研究人员，他参与了最近这项研究。

Eichler told The Associated Press that some of the genes that make us different as humans were contained in what he called the " dark matter of the genome."

艾希勒对美联社表示，一些让我们人类与众不同的基因包含在他所谓的“基因组暗物质”中。

As Evan Eichler, a geneticist at the University of Washington, told a press conference: " There are complex forms of genetic variation where we know the existing technology doesn't do a good job… it misses about two-thirds of those."

正如华盛顿大学的遗传学家埃文·艾希勒在一次新闻发布会上所说的那样: “我们知道，现有技术无法很好地研究复杂形式的遗传变异… … 它遗漏了大约三分之二的变异。”