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whole genome sequencing

(hole JEE-nome SEE-kwen-sing)

A laboratory process that is used to determine nearly all of the approximately 3 billion nucleotides of an individual’s complete DNA sequence, including non-coding sequence. Also called WGS.

whole genome sequencing

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