Re:Ion Torrent’s chip-based genome sequencer is poised to re...
by bioinformatics on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:17PM
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There's a lot of differences, especially because 23andme just checks the "different" nucleotides for some specific genes. Having your full genome sequenced would mean that we would know every single nucleotide from you, so things we still don't know are important might become vital in the future.
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Re:Ion Torrent’s chip-based genome sequencer is poised to re...
by gngeal on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:26PM
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"Having your full genome sequenced would mean that we would know every single nucleotide from you"
Unless he's a genetic mosaic, also known as the "reality is hard to squeeze into our all too simplistic data model" problem.