Nine out of ten samples were mistakenly switched by the orang-utan genome consortium

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  • who: Graham L. Banes from the We adopted a tri-fold method to confirm each sample`s identityIdentities were first inferred with an exclusionary approach, from computed (versus known and reported) sex and species. Each was then confirmed, where available, when observed kinship coefficients resembled those expected from known relationships. Third, we reviewed the historical biomaterial records retained by the Frozen Zoo, the original source of the samples, plus notes from the Laboratory Information System (LIMS) retained at Washington University in Saint Louis, where the samples were originally sequenced. Identity was assigned to a given sample when . . .

     

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