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Genome databases suffer from the human touch

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Contamination of non-primate DNA archives with human sequences indicates that better screening is needed.

Around a fifth of non-primate genome databases seem to be contaminated with human DNA sequences, according to a study.

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  1. Longo, M. S., O'Neill, M. J. & O'Neill, R. J. PLoS ONE 6, e16410 (2011).

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Phillips, M. Genome databases suffer from the human touch. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.99

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