Thursday, February 17, 2011

Contaminated Genomes

I wonder whether all those studies of the genetic distance between various human groups is affected by this kind of problem
Nearly 20 percent of the nonhuman genomes held in computer databases are contaminated with human DNA, presumably from the researchers who prepared the samples, say scientists who chanced upon the finding while looking for a human virus.

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