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The Broad Institute gene-sequencing lab used Roche equipment to read infants’ DNA genomes in less than four hours, cutting an ...

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Advances in clinical genomics have been enabled by short-read sequencing (SRS) technologies, where the DNA is broken into pieces up to 300 base pairs long. While these technologies have many ...

Whole genome sequencing offered to breast cancer patients is likely to identify unique genetic features that could either ...