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Agilent SureSelect Clinical Research Exome V2

Mar 21, 2017

Agilent Technologies has introduced a new target enrichment technology for next-generation sequencing. The SureSelect Clinical Research Exome V2 adds coverage for 1,099 additional disease-relevant targets, 75,000 splice sites of noncoding exons, more than 12,000 deep intronic variants, and more than 800 variants in promoter regions. The targets were curated in collaboration with Emory University and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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