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Has anyone submitted something other than a human sample? I have to wonder if anyone has submitted a bovine or dog sample as a joke.
by post_break 12y ago
Has anyone submitted something other than a human sample? I have to wonder if anyone has submitted a bovine or dog sample as a joke.
- fomb 12y agoExpensive joke
- panopticon 12y agoI've seen more expensive devices smashed on YouTube as a joke.
- DangerousPie 12y agoThey aren't actually sequencing the whole DNA, they are just searching it for SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) that have previously been discovered in the human genome. For example if they know there is sequence such as AAAC[CG]CTTA in the genome ([CG] being either C or G) they will check which of AAACCCTTA and AAACGCTTA they can find. So as much as i hate to give such a boring answer, this would probably just result in them not being able to use the sample.