$100 DNA test imminent

Re:$100 DNA test imminent by Real_S on Sunday December 02, 2018 @04:02PM (#18584545)

I really like how this article was written. This is often hyped as the $100 genome sequence, but as the article frames it, its more of a genetic map for $100.

Very promising tech, but we still have a ways to go before the $100 full-genome sequence. Until then, genome-wide mapping for $100 will lead us to further breakthroughs.

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Re:$100 DNA test imminent by mmmrtl on Sunday December 02, 2018 @05:26PM (#18584962)

I don't understand what you mean by this being a genetic map, this seems like an unrelated concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_mapping

This article is definitely about the potential to sequence people's genomes for $100. Part of the confusion may be that a process called mapping is a necessary step to figure out where each of the hundreds of millions of ~200 nucleotide reads for a genome came from - you "map" them back to the human reference genome for comparison.

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