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Abundant Human DNA Contamination Identified in Non-Primate Genome Databases

During routine screens of the NCBI databases using human repetitive elements we discovered an unlikely level of nucleotide identity across a broad range of phyla. To ascertain whether databases containing DNA sequences, genome assemblies and trace archive reads were contaminated with human sequences...

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Autores principales: Longo, Mark S., O'Neill, Michael J., O'Neill, Rachel J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3040168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21358816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016410