Counting duplicated genome segments now possible

Monday, August 31, 2009 - 04:14 in Biology & Nature

A newly designed computational method has proven its usefulness in counting copies of duplicated genome sequences and in doing initial assessments of their contents, according to a study to be published Aug. 30 in Nature Genetics. The number of copies of particular DNA segments can differ from one person to the next.

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