Dagens John Hawks-citat II (om genkartläggning)

published Jun 02, 2007 10:12   by admin ( last modified Jun 02, 2007 10:12 )
Now, I have my doubts about whether this scenario will come to pass. For one thing, SNP screening is going to be a lot cheaper than whole-genome sequencing for a long time, and probably will be just as informative. The benefit of the whole-genome sequence -- that it finds the rare variants that no one else has -- also makes it much less medically useful, since nobody knows what your unique rare variants actually do.


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