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cfDNA Standards For Molecular Testing

Multiplexed ctDNA fragments (~150bp) mixed with nucleosomally fragmented wildtype cfDNA background in human plasma. The cell-derived ctDNA fragments are generated by Anchor’s unique multiplexed gene-editing method and are nucleosomally fragmented to around 150bp. The cell-derived variants are suitable for both the amplicon-based and capture-based methods. The synthetic ctDNA fragments are…

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Blazing the trail to empower agrigenomics research and conservation

Sequencing data for a single human genome, at 30× coverage, takes up to 70 gigabytes of storage. Illumina instruments produced 280 million gigabytes of data in 2021 alone, and by 2025, we’ll need storage capacity for 40 billion gigabytes—and that’s just for human genomes. The Genomics & Bioinformatics Service of…

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Randomized phase II study of preoperative afatinib in untreated head and neck cancers: predictive and pharmacodynamic biomarkers of activity

Study objectives and endpoints The main objective consisted in identifying predictive biomarkers of efficacy by exploring correlation between baseline potential biomarkers and radiological and metabolic responses to afatinib. Secondary objectives were to identify potential pharmacodynamic biomarkers, to evaluate the efficacy and safety of afatinib and to assess the metabolic and…

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Lentiviral KCNT2 HUMAN sgRNA gene Knockout/Screening Kit -FenicsBIO

Lentiviral KCNT2 HUMAN sgRNA gene Knockout/Screening Kit -FenicsBIO The store will not work correctly when cookies are disabled. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. We use cookies to give you the…

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Study uncovers vast genomic diversity in Aboriginal Australian communities

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers investigated the previously underrepresented genomic diversity of four Aboriginal Australian communities. They used population-scale whole-genome (WGS) long-read sequencing. Study findings revealed unique alleles comprised of insertion-deletion variants, variable copy number regions, and structural variants, 62% of which are novel to…

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Beyond the exome: utility of long-read whole genome sequencing in exome-negative autosomal recessive diseases | Genome Medicine

Our cohort comprises 34 families in which a presumably autosomal recessive disease defied molecular diagnosis by clinical exome sequencing (short-read sequencing-based) and reanalysis performed on the index individual for each family (Fig. 1). The index patient in each family was subjected to an average of 10 × depth lrWGS except for Family F8602…

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Dispersal from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau by a high-altitude butterfly is associated with rapid expansion and reorganization of its genome

Zachos, J., Pagani, H., Sloan, L., Thomas, E. & Billups, K. Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to present. Science 292, 686–693 (2001). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Favre, A. et al. The role of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan…

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vcfdist: accurately benchmarking phased small variant calls in human genomes

The affine gap design space for selecting variant representations As demonstrated in Fig. 1, the main issue with a difference-based format such as VCF is that often there are multiple reasonable sets of variant calls that can be used to represent the same final sequence relative to a reference FASTA. Since…

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Efficient elimination of MELAS-associated m.3243G mutant mitochondrial DNA by an engineered mitoARCUS nuclease

mitoARCUS localizes to the mitochondrial matrix To evaluate the ability of mitoARCUS to specifically cleave m.3243G mutant mtDNA, cell lines containing varying levels of the mutation were generated. All of these cell lines were isolated from the same parental m.3243A>G cybrid cell line. Levels of the m.3243G mutation of each…

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Precise base editing without unintended indels in human cells and mouse primary myoblasts

Base editors cause unintended indels at the target sites Several types of evolved base editors based on the CRISPR system have been developed for more accurate and efficient genome engineering21,37. Among these, AncBE4max and ABEmax were evolved by modifying codon usage, NLSs, and ancestral deaminase reconstructions21. These modifications greatly improve…

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GATK Mutect2 mouse dbSNP vcf files recommendations for mouse whole exome data

GATK Mutect2 mouse dbSNP vcf files recommendations for mouse whole exome data 0 Dear all, Is there any best practice for the mouse snp indel vcf files using GATK Mutect2 for mouse whole exome data? For mm10, it seems have several available, for mm39, it seems the newest is from…

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IJMS | Free Full-Text | Down-Regulation of Rice Glutelin by CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Decreases Carbohydrate Content and Grain Weight and Modulates Synthesis of Seed Storage Proteins during Seed Maturation

3.1. Atypical Morphology of Protein Bodies in the Endosperm of Seeds from Glutelin Gene-Edited Transgenic Rice ER-derived PB-I vacuoles begin to form in response to the aggregation of β-/γ-zeins (maize) and 10-kDa prolamins (rice) and then expand by co-aggregation of α-/δ-zeins (maize) and 13-/16-kDa prolamins (rice) [3,22,23]. Saito’s group reported…

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Ancient diversity in host-parasite interaction genes in a model parasitic nematode

Van Valen, L. A new evolutionary law. Evol. Theory 1, 1–30 (1973). Google Scholar  Woolhouse, M. E. J., Webster, J. P., Domingo, E., Charlesworth, B. & Levin, B. R. Biological and biomedical implications of the co-evolution of pathogens and their hosts. Nat. Genet. 32, 569–577 (2002). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google…

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H101 for cervical cancer | DDDT

Introduction Patients with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic (P/R/M) cervical carcinoma respond poorly to treatment despite the best available therapeutic regimens, with a 5-year survival of 17%.1 Most of them are heavily pretreated with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy, and many patients experience complications related to treatment or advanced disease, which exclude them…

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Bioconductor Code: SNPRelate

SNPRelate: Parallel computing toolset for relatedness and principal component analysis of SNP data ==== ![GPLv3](http://www.gnu.org/graphics/gplv3-88×31.png) [GNU General Public License, GPLv3](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) [![Availability](http://www.bioconductor.org/shields/availability/release/SNPRelate.svg)](http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/SNPRelate.html) [![Years-in-BioC](http://www.bioconductor.org/shields/years-in-bioc/SNPRelate.svg)](http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/SNPRelate.html) [![R](https://github.com/zhengxwen/SNPRelate/actions/workflows/r.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/zhengxwen/SNPRelate/actions/workflows/r.yml) ## Features Genome-wide association studies are widely used to investigate the genetic basis of diseases and traits, but they pose many computational challenges. We developed SNPRelate (R…

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Integrative lncRNA, circRNA, and mRNA analysis reveals expression profiles of six forensic body fluids/tissue

RNAs have attracted much attention in forensic body fluid/tissue identification (BFID) due to their tissue-specific expression characteristics. Among RNAs, long RNAs (e.g., mRNA) have a higher probability of containing more polymorphic sites that can be used to assign the specific donor of the body fluid/tissue. However, few studies have characterized…

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Help finding the correct file version for dbSNP VCF ID replacement

Tried to use dbSNP version 156 using bcftools to replace the ID field in a reference VCF which originally contains a different position ID format. It seems the bcftools command did not work because a numeric chromosome column format in the #CHROM field which might not be compatible with bcftools…

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filtering SNV/INDEL in tumor-only WGS samples

filtering SNV/INDEL in tumor-only WGS samples 0 Dear all, To the cancer genomics community on Biostars that worked with tumor-only samples, a question please : which criteria do you apply to identify the most reliable somatic mutations ? I would appreciate having your suggestions. <> my colleagues performed somatic mutation…

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NGS Updates from ASHG: What’s New in Sequencing?

As expected, the NGS companies were sharing their news, out in full force, at the annual American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting last week in Washington, DC. Whether the updates came from the expo booths showcasing instruments, or users sharing data in the lecture halls, each company had progress…

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Senior Scientist Bioinformatics – AZNJP00026759 Hays Working for your tomorrow

Location – Cambridge, UK Outside IR35 Duration – 12 months Make a more meaningful impact to patients’ lives around the globe. When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give us the platform we need to…

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Single-nucleus DNA sequencing reveals hidden somatic loss-of-heterozygosity in Cerebral Cavernous Malformations

Ethical statement Our research complies with all relevant ethical regulations, including the Declaration of Helsinki and has been approved by the Institutional Review Boards of University of Chicago, Duke University and the Alliance to Cure Cavernous Malformations. Cerebral cavernous malformation lesions All human CCM tissue specimens have been previously reported18,19…

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Complete Genomics demonstrates technical and commercial momentum in the sequencing market through new customers, partnerships and collaborations less than one year after launching in the U.S.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Complete Genomics, a pioneering genomic sequencing company, announced today at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting, Nov. 1-5, in Washington details on the commercial and technical momentum it has demonstrated in the last 10 months since launching in the United States…

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Element Biosciences’ NGS Tech, App Stories to Be Featured at ASHG

Element Biosciences, the developer of the AVITI benchtop sequencer, will be sharing details about its technology and discussing customer stories at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting. Element is a silver sponsor of the meeting, which will be held November 1–5 in Washington,…

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A leap forward in genome-edited plant breeding

Phenotypic confirmation of the eIF(iso)4E edited and wild type plants after 30 days of inoculation. Credit: Horticulture Research Genome editing, especially the CRISPR/Cas9 technology, holds immense promise in enhancing plant traits, primarily disease resistance, offering a more efficient alternative to traditional breeding. The turnip mosaic virus (TuMV), a type of…

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No samples in .vcf file.

I am trying to convert my vcf file into a BED format file.  When I use this command: plink –vcf merge.bacteria.vcf.gz –make-bed –out merge.bacteria.vcf.bed  I get the following error stating:  PLINK v1.90b6.21 64-bit (19 Oct 2020)          www.cog-genomics.org/plink/1.9/(C) 2005-2020 Shaun Purcell, Christopher Chang   GNU General Public License…

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NCT/DKFZ MASTER handbook of interpreting whole-genome, transcriptome, and methylome data for precision oncology

Patient characteristics and tissue context The clinical interpretation of molecular alterations starts with evaluating relevant patient characteristics and the tissue context in which a genetic profile occurs. The former relates, in particular, to previous therapies, in addition to disease stage and clinical performance status. For example, prior targeted therapies warrant…

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How can I convert VCF to HGVS format?

How can I convert VCF to HGVS format? 3 Is there any library that I can use to convert VCF format to HGVS format? I’m using a python module called myvariant, but this module only allows me to input HGVS formats. But all I have is VCFs, so I’m wondering…

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Pathway-driven analysis of synthetic lethal interactions in cancer using perturbation screens

Introduction Cancer cells are characterized by unrestrained proliferation and dysregulated growth, which lead to the formation of malignant neoplasms (Hanahan & Weinberg, 2023). The development and progression of cancer have been linked to the dysregulation of multiple signaling pathways, including MAPK/ERK, Wnt/β-catenin, PI3K/AKT/mTOR, and NF-kB, which are among crucial pathways…

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Solved Which of the following processes would result in a

Transcribed image text: Which of the following processes would result in a mutation in the DNA upon repair of a double strand break? SSDR NHE HDR CRISPR Question 5 1 pts Inclusion of a template during CRISPR editing can lead to which of the following? an indel Always leads to…

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Pysam pileup and Rsamtools pileup output discrepancy

I have mRNA sequencing data that I’ve aligned to a genome. Specifically, I am interested in determining the total number of reads at each base and the percentage of occurrences of A, T, G, C, deletions, and insertions at these bases. I have utilized both pysam pileup and Rsamtools pileup…

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R: Import samtools ‘pileup’ files.

R: Import samtools ‘pileup’ files. readPileup {Rsamtools} R Documentation Import samtools ‘pileup’ files. Description Import files created by evaluation of samtools’ pileup -cv command. Usage readPileup(file, …) ## S4 method for signature ‘connection’ readPileup(file, …, variant=c(“SNP”, “indel”, “all”)) Arguments file The file name, or connection, of the pileup output file…

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Why 99% coverage at 20X depth for sequencing?

Why 99% coverage at 20X depth for sequencing? 0 Hi, I’m new to sequencing. I don’t understand why most labs set this metric and how they derive these specific values, rather than 95%, or 30X for example. How do they tie in with statistics as well? Does it have to…

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Why 99% at 20X for sequencing?

Hi, I’m new to sequencing. I don’t understand why most labs set this metric and how they derive these specific values, rather than 95%, or 30X for example. How do they tie in with statistics as well? Does it have to do with an error rate of 1%? Or does…

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Most sensible way to find private SNPs from a multisamples vcf with bcftools

Hello, this question is somehow complementary to what I asked yesterday here: Using bcftools to find unique alt homozygous sites Now let’s say I want to find the SNPs 0/1 unique to the sample D3A350g_bcftools2 (see below) I know I can use bcftools view -s D3A350g_bcftools2.bcf -x all_bcftools2_merged.vcf But there…

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Using bcftools to find unique alt homozygous sites

Hello, I have a vcf with 20 samples. I want to find for each sample the sites that are 1/1, only in that sample (so other samples must have genotypes 0/1 or 0/0). I know I can use filters such as GT=”aa”‘ However, how do I say GT=”aa” for sample…

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variant calling – INDELS in PLINK files converted to VCF

I want to compare/validate variants called from sequencing data with array (plink format) variant data. I converted the plink files (.bim, .bed, and .fam files) with plink1 to vcf files. plink –bfile prefix_plink –recode vcf-iid –out prefix_out However, the plink vcf files have “I” and “D” values for INDEL variants…

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The mutational signature of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Introduction Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), characterized by asymmetric hypertrophy of the ventricular wall, is a condition where the heart becomes thickened without a distinct inducement.1,2 Epidemiological investigation shows that the estimated prevalence rate of HCM in the general population is 1:500.3,4 The clinical manifestations vary greatly, with no symptoms and mild…

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Prospects of Whole Genome Sequencing in Animal Breeding

Prospects of Whole Genome Sequencing in Animal Breeding The development of high-throughput sequencing technologies has revolutionized animal genetics and genomics. The widespread use of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) allows detection of a full range of common and rare genetic variants of different types across almost the entire genome which facilitates rare…

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Determine INDELs number (both classes separately) from reference and graph-based VCF files

Hi there, this is more so of a hint/suggestion post than a real question since I could manage to find some related posts here on Biostars but appreciate a feedback on the procedure/results for the analysis. In principle, I’m trying to compare the bwa-mem_GATK pipeline working on the linear reference…

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Solved Match the column abbreviation for mandatory VCF

Match the column abbreviation for mandatory VCF columns with the information that column contains. Group of answer choices CHROM POS ID REFALT QUAL FILTERINFO FORMAT The identifier of the variation, e.g. a dbSNP The 0-based position of the variation on the given sequence. A flag indicating which of a given…

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Epidemiology and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BA.1 and 2 in Taiwan

Prevalence of Omicron subvariants between December 2021 and January 2023 in Taiwan BA.1 and BA.2 and their sublineages entered Taiwan in December 2021 and January 2022, respectively (Supplementary Table S1 and Fig. 1). These two Omicron lineages did not cause COVID-19 outbreaks until March and April 2022 (Supplementary Table S1 and…

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Mitochondrial DNA damage triggers spread of Parkinson’s disease-like pathology

Lack of IFNβ/IFNAR signaling causes mtDNA oxidization and mutation in a hotspot in complex I respiratory chain subunits mimicking PD brain pathology We analyzed transcriptomic datasets from sPD patients [28] to identify molecular pathways related to the disease pathology. Dysregulated oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) emerged as the top-ranked pathway in sPDD, patients with…

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Effect of recombination on genetic diversity of Caenorhabditis elegans

Strong correlation exists between recombination rate and abundance and proportion of indels Whole-genome sequence data of many C. elegans wild isolates now exist. These include Illumina paired-end data of over 600 wild isolates by CeNDR, which also obtained first-generation PacBio long-read data of 14 wild isolates. Second-generation PacBio HiFi data20…

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Innovative strategies of reprograming immune system cells

Introduction Cancer is well characterized by genomic instability resulting in structural alterations that build up with tumor progression.1,2 A subpopulation of undifferentiated cancer cells, known as cancer stem cells (CSCs) are found within the tumor bulk. These cells are responsible for cancer initiation, recurrence and show therapeutic resistance and these…

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IJMS | Free Full-Text | CRISPR-Cas9 Direct Fusions for Improved Genome Editing via Enhanced Homologous Recombination

Over the past decade, CRISPR-Cas9 has found widespread application in loss-of-function mutations, but precise genetic engineering for gene correction or gene replacement therapies has lagged behind. In vivo correction using CRISPR-Cas9 to replace genetic mutations by HR is highly challenging, and very few studies have managed to achieve this [31,32]….

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GDC TCGA BRCA

– In TCGA BRCA data (Legacy data),  dataset: gene expression RNAseq – IlluminaHiSeq from tcga.xenahubs.net have  20,531 identifiers corresponding to about 20000 genes. However,  in GDC TCGA BRCA data ( Harmonized Data),  dataset: gene expression RNAseq – HTSeq – Counts from hub: gdc.xenahubs.net, there are  60,489 identifiers. What is the difference between them?…

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Scaling logical density of DNA storage with enzymatically-ligated composite motifs

Composite motifs as building blocks for DNA storage A composite motif is a representation of a position in an oligo sequence that uses a combination of motifs drawn from a fixed motif library to encode data. For example, assuming a library of 32 motifs, and a combination factor of four,…

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Assessment of ForenSeq mtDNA Whole Genome Kit for forensic application

doi: 10.1007/s00414-023-03084-0. Online ahead of print. Guihong Liu #  1 , Yazi Zheng #  1 , Qiushuo Wu  1 , Tao Feng  2 , Yu Xia  2 , Dan Chen  2 , Li Ren  2 , Xiaogang Bai  2 , Qingqing Li  2 , Dezhi Chen  1 , Meili Lv  3 , Miao Liao  1 , Weibo Liang  1 , Lin Zhang  4 , Shengqiu Qu …

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Transcriptional linkage analysis with in vivo AAV-Perturb-seq

Experimental procedures Plasmid design and cloning AAV genome plasmids (Fig. 1a and Extended Data Figs. 1a,g,h and 5a) were based on Addgene plasmid 60231 (ref. 12). To achieve widespread transgene expression, the hSyn promoter was replaced by the ubiquitous CBh promoter (pAS088). For the triple-colour experiments (Extended Data Fig. 1a),…

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NIH Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias publication shows comprehensive, high accuracy sequencing approach, using new Oxford Nanopore sequencing chemistry

In a new publication in Nature Methods, a team contributing to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias (CARD) share an end-to-end pipeline that produces state-of-the-art single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), structural variant and methylation calls, while being cost-effective and scalable for large projects OXFORD, England,…

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Association analysis of agronomic traits and construction of genetic networks by resequencing of 306 sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) lines

Genome resequencing approach for genotyping 306 sugar beet germplasm resources In this study, we performed high-depth genome-wide resequencing of 306 sugar beet accessions using an Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer, obtaining 1977.12 Gb of sequencing data. This collection included 72 endemic accessions from Northeast China (Harbin), 114 endemic accessions from North China…

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Transgene-free genome editing of vegetatively propagated and perennial plant species in the T0 generation via a co-editing strategy

Zhang, Y. et al. Efficient and transgene-free genome editing in wheat through transient expression of CRISPR/Cas9 DNA or RNA. Nat. Commun. 7, 12617 (2016). Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Woo, J. W. et al. DNA-free genome editing in plants with preassembled CRISPR–Cas9 ribonucleoproteins. Nat. Biotechnol. 33, 1162–1164 (2015)….

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For high quality Telomere to telomere assemblies, is short read polishing still necessary

For high quality Telomere to telomere assemblies, is short read polishing still necessary 1 I’m new to DNA sequencing but our lab has bought a lot of nanopore equipment to sequence algae samples de novo. I’m not caught up on the state of DNA assembly software literature but I know…

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Purpose, Principles, Applications and more

DNA sequencing is a laboratory technique used to determine the order of nucleotides (adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine) in a DNA molecule. It is a fundamental tool in molecular biology and genetics, with a wide range of applications in fields such as genomics, medicine, forensics, and evolutionary biology. There are…

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BCFtools isec output vs BCFtools query

I have 5 samples and I have performed variant calling using the Strelka2 software. The output of this software is a VCFfile for each sample and a VCF file containing all the variants across all samples. I am interested in looking at which variants are shared among and/or unique to…

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Merging/Concatenating Vcf Files

Merging/Concatenating Vcf Files 2 I have a vcf file of SNPs and another vcf file for my Indels. During SNP calling step by GATK, I created them separately instead of using -glm (calling together SNPs and Indels). Now to get the consensus sequence of my mapped genome, I want to…

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Assembly of 43 human Y chromosomes reveals extensive complexity and variation

Skaletsky, H. et al. The male-specific region of the human Y chromosome is a mosaic of discrete sequence classes. Nature 423, 825–837 (2003). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Porubsky, D. et al. Recurrent inversion polymorphisms in humans associate with genetic instability and genomic disorders. Cell 185, 1986–2005 (2022). Article …

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Mitochondrial DNA study offers several new findings, reveals confounding factor in previous research

Pervasive nuclear genetic control over common mtDNA heteroplasmies. a, Quality control (QC)-passing mtDNA heteroplasmies in UKB and AoU. From the inside: mtDNA positions of poly-C tracts; genomic annotations (orange, HVR; yellow, rRNA genes; blue, tRNA genes; purple, coding genes); heteroplasmic SNV counts (red); heteroplasmic indel counts (black). The teal arc…

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MenT nucleotidyltransferase toxins extend tRNA acceptor stems and can be inhibited by asymmetrical antitoxin binding

MenAT1 sequence analysis Analysis of gene neighbourhoods for rv0078B (menA1) was performed using default settings in FlaGs (www.webflags.se/). Output sequences for MenA1 and cognate MenT1 homologues were then used to perform sequence alignments using MUSCLE (www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/muscle/), then formatted in Jalview (www.jalview.org/), sorting by pairwise alignment. Residues of interest were then…

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Preclinical safety and biodistribution of CRISPR targeting SIV in non-human primates

Development of safe and effective viral specific gRNAs CRISPR gRNA designer tools were used to identify gRNAs that target LTR and Gag with minimal chance of unintended effects for the previously described HIV-directed guides [6, 10]. Previous research demonstrated efficacy in targeting HIV in culture and using an infected humanized…

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Align raw Nanopore reads (amplicon, long PCR)

long PCR, 6000 bp, long indels (>100bp), multicopy gene = multiple amplicons from same PCR but only differ in indel meaning minimal substitutions: variance~1%, 2000 reads per sample, homopolymers (12bp) and tandem repeats (up to 55 fold, length 12-250bp), no reference available I want to de-noise my amplicons and generate…

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Long-molecule scars of backup DNA repair in BRCA1- and BRCA2-deficient cancers

Pan-cancer WGS data sources GrCh37/hg19 BAM alignments for 2,489 primary tumour and matched normal whole-genome sequencing data were obtained as previously described18. In brief, 989 tumour–normal (T/N) pairs were obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network (Genomic Data Commons at portal.gdc.cancer.gov/, accession: phs000178.v11.p8). Additional WGS data were obtained for 874 T/N pairs…

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Efficient delivery of a large-size Cas9-EGFP vector in porcine fetal fibroblasts using a Lonza 4D-Nucleofector system | BMC Biotechnology

Isolation of PFFs PFFs were isolated from the 30-day-old fetuses of a Large White pig purchased from Fujian Yongcheng Agricultrual & Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd (Jiangxi Province, China). Briefly, the sow was euthanized by intravenous injection of potassium chloride solution (100 mg/kg) under anesthesia by an intramuscular…

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Oligonucleotides | Thermo Fisher Scientific

Use this tool to design a custom DNA oligonucleotide, with any of a variety of 3′ and 5′ modifications, at scales ranging from 25 nmole to 10 µmole. Select desired purification method (normal or reversed-phase chromatography, HPLC, or PAGE). Use this tool to design a custom DNA oligonucleotide, with any…

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Genome-wide prediction of disease variant effects with a deep protein language model

This study did not require any ethical approval. ESM1b In this study, we have leveraged and expanded the use of ESM1b, a protein language model developed by MetaAI20. The code and pretrained parameters for ESM1b (and other ESM models) were taken from the model’s official GitHub repository at github.com/facebookresearch/esm. Throughout…

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Cas9-mediated knockout of Ndrg2 enhances the regenerative potential of dendritic cells for wound healing

Ndrg2 expression is reduced in tolerogenic DCs To identify potential targets for gene editing in DCs, we compared transcriptomic profiles of treatment induced tolerogenic DCs, which confer a variety of clinical benefits11,12,13,14,15,16,17 with untreated DCs. Bone marrow-derived DCs were cultivated from wild-type (WT) mice (C57/BL6) according to standard protocols25. Vitamin…

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vcf file chr notation

“I have a single VCF file named ‘ALL.wgs.shapeit2_integrated_snvindels_v2a.GRCh38.27022019.sites.vcf.gz’. The issue at hand is that the file uses different chromosomal notation and lacks the ‘chr’ prefix. Like this “##fileformat=VCFv4.3 ##FILTER=<ID=PASS,Description=”All filters passed”> ##fileDate=11032019_15h52m43s ##source=IGSRpipeline ##reference=ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/GRCh38_reference_genome/GRCh38_full_analysis_set_plus_decoy_hla.fa ##contig=<ID=1> ##contig=<ID=2> ##contig=<ID=3> ##contig=<ID=4> ##contig=<ID=5> ##contig=<ID=6> ##contig=<ID=7> ##contig=<ID=8> ##contig=<ID=9> ##contig=<ID=10> ##contig=<ID=11> ##contig=<ID=12> ##contig=<ID=13> ##contig=<ID=14> ##contig=<ID=15> ##contig=<ID=16>…

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Ensembl Ref/alt allele discrepancy

Ensembl Ref/alt allele discrepancy 1 Hello, While exploring rs72552763 INDEL in Ensembl, the Alleles field show the ref and alt allele as ATGAT/AT. However, in the following line that provides location, the VCF shows ref and alt allele as ATGA A Why is there a discrepancy in ref/alt alleles? I…

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A diverse ancestrally-matched reference panel increases genotype imputation accuracy in a underrepresented population

In the present study, we enrolled 412 participants from the Southeast Asian Brugada syndrome cohort (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04232787). The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (IRB No. 431/58). All methods were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines/regulations. Informed…

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German Initiative Aims to Test Clinical Adoption of Nanopore Sequencing for Rare Disease Dx

NEW YORK – Oxford Nanopore Technologies and researchers at four German university medical centers have launched an initiative to evaluate the clinical implementation and utility of nanopore sequencing for rare disease testing. Named the Clinical Long-read Genome Initiative (lonGER), the two-year study will analyze approximately 1,000 samples from clinical sites…

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How to read Varscan VCF output in column “Cons”?

How to read Varscan VCF output in column “Cons”? 0 Hi, I am trying to use Varscan2 to make indel calls from pileup files created by samtools. The process ran very smooth but I got confused with the output. I don’t know how to read the result of the indel….

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Is it ok to do Indel realignment after removing subsets of reads?

Is it ok to do Indel realignment after removing subsets of reads? 1 Hello community, I have now filtered out all reads that aligned to mtDNA and to unclassified contigs (not being part of defined chromosomes). I realized however that I also have to do the indel re-alignment, and I…

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Base-edited gene therapies ‘may be superior’ for sickle cell disease

Source/Disclosures Published by: Disclosures: The authors have filed patent applications on genome-editing agents. Weiss reports consulting roles with Cellularity, Dyne Therapeutics, GSK and Novartis. Yen reports being an equity owner of Beam Therapeutics. Please see the study for all other authors’ relevant financial disclosures. …

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Ancient dolphin genomes reveal rapid repeated adaptation to coastal waters

Ethics We confirm our research complies with all relevant ethical regulations and was approved by the animal ethics committee of the School of Biology at the University of St Andrews on 26 July 2018 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/environment/committees/awerb/. The three new contemporary dolphin samples analysed in this study were collected under the relevant…

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Very low average coverage obtained

Dear All, I got the viral genome assembly using metaviral spade. Since this is a relatively new genome, I don’t have any closest proper reference. So I mapped my reads back to contigs to know the coverage using bbmap and got the following output: java -ea -Xmx21819m -Xms21819m -cp /Tools/bbmap/current/…

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theta parameter file was not given

Strelka error: theta parameter file was not given 0 Hi guys, I’m trying to run strelka2 somatic workflow on my matched normal-tumor samples, but I keep running into the following error: [TaskManager] Launching command task: ‘CallGenome+callGenomeSegment_chromId_002_chr3_0015’ from sub-workflow ‘CallGenome’ [TaskRunner:CallGenome+callGenomeSegment_chromId_002_chr3_0015] Task initiated on local node [TaskManager] [ERROR] Failed to complete…

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How to accelerate the generation of single-cell clones

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), genome engineering of cell lines, facilitate target discovery. It provides an excellent disease model for preclinical research, particularly in chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy. The primary challenge in cell engineering remains the generation of single-cell clones. Current approaches range from manual limiting dilution…

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Roving methyltransferases generate a mosaic epigenetic landscape and influence evolution in Bacteroides fragilis group

Isolate storage, growth, and identification Historical BFG isolates originally cultured from clinical material between 1973 and 2018 were stored either lyophilized or frozen in skim milk media at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Department of Laboratory Medicine (Bethesda, MD). Isolates were de-identified and metadata including year and source/site…

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DNA Sequencing | Element Biosciences

Avidity Sequencing™Scientists today have a wide variety of methods they can use to explore the how genomic changes or differences impact biology, including whole-genome or targeted sequencing, short or long reads, and numerous methods for assessing chromatin accessibility. By sequencing DNA in a fundamentally new way, the Element AVITI System…

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DbSnpBitSetUtil (picard 2.10.9-1-gaa8c979-SNAPSHOT API)

DbSnpBitSetUtil (picard 2.10.9-1-gaa8c979-SNAPSHOT API) JavaScript is disabled on your browser. java.lang.Object picard.util.DbSnpBitSetUtil Nested Class Summary Nested Classes  Modifier and Type Class and Description static class  DbSnpBitSetUtil.DbSnpBitSets Little tuple class to contain one bitset for SNPs and another for Indels. Constructor Summary Constructors  Constructor and Description DbSnpBitSetUtil(java.io.File dbSnpFile, htsjdk.samtools.SAMSequenceDictionary sequenceDictionary) Constructor that creates…

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An optimized GATK4 pipeline for Plasmodium falciparum whole genome sequencing variant calling and analysis | Malaria Journal

Optimization of the pipeline on monoclonal and simulated mixed infection samples Towards optimizing GATK4 for P. falciparum, the creation of an improved training “truth set” for the pipeline was key. To filter raw VCFs with a high quality truth callset, which is difficult to obtain using wet laboratory methods, a…

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variant filtering

variant filtering 0 Hello How and with what scripts can I apply the following filters in a file that includes all variants of the genome? Please explain in detail i want remove Variants with phred-scaled scores below 20 and variants with genotypic qualities (GQ) of less than 20, SNPs within…

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What could be the rage for Average Coverage after Assembly

Dear all, I performed viral genome assembly using metaviral spade and I wanted to map my reads back to contigs to know the coverage. I used bbmap for this purpose and got the following output: NOTE: Deleting contents of ref/genome/1 because reference is specified and overwrite=true NOTE: Deleting contents of…

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BBDuk Guide – DOE Joint Genome Institute

“Duk” stands to Decontamination Using Kmers. BBDuk was made to combine many common data-quality-related trimming, filtering, and masking actions into an single high-performance tool. It are capable of quality-trimming or filtering, adapter-trimming, contaminant-filtering via kmer matching, sequence masking, GC-filtering, length filtering, entropy-filtering, format conversion, histogram generation, subsampling, quality-score recalibration, kmer…

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Researchers in Japan Look At How To Enhance CRISPR-Cas9

In Japan, researchers at Kyushu University and Nagoya University have been working on reducing issues with mutations (and hopefully toxicity and side effects) when using CRISPR-Cas9. Masaki Kawamata, assistant professor at Kyushu University and one of the authors of the study, says, “Even before the discovery of the CRISPR editing system,…

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CRISPR prime editing for unconstrained correction of oncogenic KRAS variants

Design of universal pegRNAs for KRAS gene correction We first investigated the mutation frequency of three RAS family genes, HRAS, NRAS, and KRAS, which are involved in tumorigenesis. According to the COSMIC (Catalog Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer) database (cancer.sanger.ac.uk/)22, KRAS mutations account for the majority (81.4%) of RAS mutations,…

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NIH Study Demonstrates Nanopore Sequencing for Population-Scale Genomics

NEW YORK – Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators have shown that nanopore long-read sequencing can be used on a population scale to help understand the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. In a preprint posted on BioRxiv in April, they outlined wet-lab and computational…

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Eukaryotes Have CRISPR-Like Systems That Can Edit Genomes, MIT Teams Report

NEW YORK – Two teams of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated that some eukaryotic organisms have their own RNA-guided endonucleases, which likely share a common ancestor with certain Cas proteins. “Just when you think CRISPR is plateauing, there’s something new around the corner,” said Omar Abudayyeh,…

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Glutamine synthetase (GS) knockout (KO) using CRISPR/Cpf1 diversely enhances selection efficiency of CHO cells expressing therapeutic antibodies

Identification and expression of GS genes in CHO cells Database analysis (see Supplementary information 1 indicated that the endogenous GS genes in CHO-K1 include two genes on chromosome 5 (GS5) and chromosome 1 (GS1), for which in-house RNAseq data and previous publication, listed in Supplementary Table S1, showed high and low…

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Genome-wide discovery of di-nucleotide SSR markers based on whole genome re-sequencing data of Cicer arietinum L. and Cicer reticulatum Ladiz

Varshney, R. K. et al. Draft genome sequence of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) provides a resource for trait improvement. Nat. Biotechnol. 31, 240–246 (2013). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Li, Y. et al. Investigating drought tolerance in chickpea using genome-wide association mapping and genomic selection based on whole-genome resequencing data. Front….

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Help manually processing strand in paired-end reads when fishing for lariats in bulk RNA-seq

Hi, I’m trying to detect lariat loops in RNA-seq data (circular RNAs produced during splicing). I am following the methods used in Pineda & Bradley 2018 Branchpoint detection algorithm:Our branchpoint detection algorithm was based on the split-read alignment strategy used in Mercer et al. (2015). 1- Prefilter reads:First, filter out…

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Proton and alpha radiation-induced mutational profiles in human cells

Determining proton and helium ion fraction, and irradiating the cell lines The dosage of radiation was determined experimentally in order to achieve between 40 and 50% lethality (corresponding to 50% to 60% clonogenic survival), independently across the two types of particle beams (Fig. 1a,b). Figure 1 Overview of the experimental design….

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Using nanopore sequencing to identify fungi from clinical samples with high phylogenetic resolution

Fungal genomic DNA DNA extracted from Aspergillus niger (kindly provided by Dr. Takamitsu Imoto, Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan) and a mock community DNA standard (Mycobiome Genomic DNA Mix, MSA-1010; ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA) were used to evaluate the validity of the sequencing methodology. The mock community standard…

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Complete Genomics Unveils New Partnerships at 18th Anniversary

Complete Genomics and Invivoscribe announced in early June that they have entered a global partnership to develop biomarker tests for oncology based on Complete Genomics’ next-generation sequencing platforms. Under the collaboration, Invivoscribe will take part in the development of biomarker tests and associated bioinformatics software using the ultra-high speed DNBSeq-G99RS*…

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Applications of long-read sequencing to Mendelian genetics | Genome Medicine

Kingsmore SF, Cakici JA, Clark MM, Gaughran M, Feddock M, Batalov S, et al. A randomized, controlled trial of the analytic and diagnostic performance of singleton and trio, rapid genome and exome sequencing in ill infants. Am J Hum Genet. 2019;105(4):719–33. Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Costain G,…

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Key triggers of adaptive genetic variability of sessile oak [Q. petraea (Matt.) Liebl.] from the Balkan refugia: outlier detection and association of SNP loci from ddRAD-seq data

Adamack AT, Gruber B (2014) PopGenReport: simplifying basic population genetic analyses in R. Methods Ecol Evol 5:384–387. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12158 Article  Google Scholar  Aguirre-Liguori JA, Ramírez-Barahona S, Gaut BS (2021) The evolutionary genomics of species’ responses to climate change. Nat Ecol Evol 5:1350–60. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01526-9 Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  Ahrens CW, Rymer PD,…

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Whole genome analysis for 163 gRNAs in Cas9-edited mice reveals minimal off-target activity

Allele design and guide selection For multi-exon genes, a critical region (one or more exons) was identified as shared among all annotated full-length transcripts whose removal was predicted to result in a frame-shift mutation and introduction of premature stop codon greater than 50-nt from the final splice junction increasing the…

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Regulation of the CRISPR-Cas12a system by methylation and demethylation of guide RNA

. 2023 May 9;14(22):5945-5955. doi: 10.1039/d3sc00629h. eCollection 2023 Jun 7. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District Beijing 100083 P. R. China. 2 Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University…

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Base Editors and Prime Editors Begin to Realize Their Clinical Promise

By MaryAnn Labant Back in 2016, a group of researchers led by Harvard’s David Liu, PhD, published a paper in Nature that reported the development of base editing. Base editing, they wrote, is “a new approach to genome editing that enables the direct, irreversible conversion of one target DNA base…

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Y chromosome sequence and epigenomic reconstruction across human populations

Data production Complete Y chromosomes from six different human haplogroups were isolated as previously described17 (Fig. 1a, b). In brief, chromosomes were obtained from lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) used in the 1000 Genomes Project31 (1kgp) and sequenced on the ONT MinION. We also made use of the Y chromosome sorted ONT…

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