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joshu on July 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we're scammed into eating phony food

23andme does SNPs, not large scale sequencing. I don't think it knows what to do without a library.

I have actually researched full genome sequencing. That is why I asked if there was a cheaper way to do it.

sampo on July 11, 2016 [–]

You need nothing like full genome sequencing to figure out the species of a sample. Just sequencing some mitochondrial D-loop and cytochrome regions will do. I am not sure exactly, but we're talking some hundreds or some thousands of base pairs only.

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