On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Fred Kittelmann <pigeonholingalimitation@yahoo.com> wrote:
-- Also, with such extensive analysis, would it be so much more difficult to sequence an entire genome for someone and thereby cover the possibility of idiosyncrasy which I, and presumably most anyone, would want? Is there even such a thing as a consensus human genome for comparison? By that of course I mean the whole genome, not just consensus sequences for particular genes.
Well, they're not sequencing it, just seeing if it matches a pattern. You can fit a good half million (or is it more now?) of tests on one tiny chip. It takes a lot more work to get the actual base-by-base sequence without errors.
According to wikipedia, they're identified 50 million SNPs...! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNP_array
-Katie
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