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Genetic testing for nephrotic syndrome and FSGS in the era of next-generation sequencing.
Kidney international - 1 May 2014
Brown Elizabeth J, Pollak Martin R, Barua Moumita
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The haploid human genome is composed of three billion base pairs, about one percent of which consist of exonic regions, the coding sequence for functional proteins, also now known as the 'exome'. The development of next-generation sequencing makes it possible from a technical and economic standpoint to sequence an individual's exome but at the cost of generating long lists of gene variants that are not...
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