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About 300 million bits of DNA are missing from basic reference genome, report scientists

Overcoming Issues of Scale with High Throughput Next Generation Sequencing

For the past 17 years, most scientists around the globe have been using the nucleic acid sequence, or genome, an assembly of DNA information, from primarily a single individual as a kind of "baseline" reference and human species representation for comparing genetic variety among groups of people.

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