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Kandiru t1_isim3ny wrote

Reply to comment by tsunamisurfer in When it's said 99.9% of human DNA is the same in all humans, is this referring to only coding DNA or both coding and non-coding DNA combined? by PeanutSalsa

Actually there were two competing approaches at the beginning. Venter did sequence himself with shotgun sequencing, while the high fidelity BAC sequencing with Sanger sequencing was done on a range of different individuals spanning the genome.

So the first version of the reference was a mixture of them all.

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