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Sequencing and analysis of a South Asian-Indian personal genome.
BMC genomics - 31 Aug 2012
Gupta Ravi, Ratan Aakrosh, Rajesh Changanamkandath, Chen Rong, Kim Hie Lim, Burhans Richard, Miller Webb, Santhosh Sam, Davuluri Ramana V, Butte Atul J, Schuster Stephan C, Seshagiri Somasekar, Thomas George
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BACKGROUND: With over 1.3 billion people, India is estimated to contain three times more genetic diversity than does Europe. Next-generation sequencing technologies have facilitated the understanding of diversity by enabling whole genome sequencing at greater speed and lower cost. While genomes from people of European and Asian descent have been sequenced, only recently has a single male genome from the Indian...
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