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Where's the Haplotype?

Jun 04, 2007

At Omics! Omics!, blogger Keith Robison says that in all the excitement over genome sequencing, people are overlooking the once-loved haplotype. The short reads from next-gen sequencing may not be enough to pull together SNPs linked over long stretches of DNA, he says.

 

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