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Pete Ross's avatar

" The reference genome was originally derived from a single patient and constructed without additional scientific controls, such as sequencing PCR negative patients with similar etiology from the same hospital."

How could anyone sequence "PCR negative patients"? If they "negative" then nothing to sequence.

Would it be better to write: take equivalent samples from the "PCR negative" patents and subject these samples to sequencing in parallel with samples from "PCR positive" patients?

I don't understand.

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Swapnil Nikumbh's avatar

Does DNA/RNA exist? If not, then there is no contigs and reads and Denovo sequences and genome sequencing. The whole area of genomics falls apart.

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