Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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How Much Do You Have to Do With All This Noise?
We had three thousand a sights along the human geno. And every time you hybridize dan using sanano technology, very small volumes, you got all kinds of noise. So we used a lot of statistics to kind ofsmoothing out toas noise. We knew thiss boy had a about a six million base pair deletion on one of his cromozom sevens. In fact, it's right by the systic pibrosis gen. It turns out that all of us in the population carry lots of these trunks of d and a that are either missing in one copy or president extra copies. Or sometimes you don't have any the tan at all.
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