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by folli 2334 days ago
#2: replicating their BLAST search is easy: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Get&RID=398N4CS... and it shows that the matches of these short inserts are completely by chance and don't constitute any statistically significant relationship.
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Thank you for posting this here -- and thank you for taking a quick look at that paper and debunking it.

I just upvoted your comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206393.