
Special Episode: Genetic Testing
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Genetic Testing
There's about three billion nucleosides, and if you do a whole genome sequence, then obviously that's a lot. A gene is 1,300 long, depending on obviously, if there is by the gene. If we've got about 30,000 genes, so you pick a few of those and sequence those, a gene is,. I don't know, 1,300Long. So it's just giving a bit of a framework for people to think about the numbers we're talking about here.
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