Posted by alexandra_k on October 9, 2018, at 22:00:01
In reply to Re: Today's Dominion Post, posted by alexandra_k on October 9, 2018, at 21:50:18
there have been cases reported in reputable journals where someone sequenced a turkey sandwich and reported it as a genuine finding. basically, their sample got contaminated by their lunch.
so... you send off however much money and they sequence your genome.
all of it?
there was something at one point about people wheeling in however many volumes of books that actually had someone (or other's) entire genome printed on it.
part of it?
which parts?
why those parts?
from an average of a blend of how many of those persons cells which came from a sample of where?
it would be really tempting to take people's charitable donations and send them... what do you send them, exactly, again? strings of acgt??
the whole thing is pretty murky.
and expressivity and penetrance is variable...
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