Quote from Pg. 192 of the hardcover version of
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer:
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It took a couple of weeks for Mark Gerstein to work over my genome. He and his students wanted to analyze the short fragments of DNA with their own software and create their own map. Once they had pinned down the location of the vast majority of Illumina’s fragments, they could then determine which variants I carried. ….
The Nigerian and the Chinese had a similar number of single-nucleotide polymorphisms. But those variants did not distinguish the three of us in any clear way. Sushant Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher in Gerstein’s lab, made me a Venn diagram to drive the point home. … “}}
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