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Interview a geneticist

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:56 am
by deleted-674077
How many #basepair do each of the dna kit companies sequence?

If #Mitochandrial is About 17,000 basepair, where is the market that does a complete sequence of the smallest whole unit?

I read from Ancestry.com own website that they skip around reading every third gene, up to 150,000 genes; and then per @nihgov that every about 1,000 gene is typically a SNP or new gene, per what https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/chromosome tells me. And that more than 100 million SNP variations are currently documented by the Government, which does the least dna testing of all sources on this planet.

Re: Interview a geneticist

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:42 pm
by MadelineB
Hello,
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