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by chaostheory 2310 days ago
Personally, I'd rather have accuracy than convenience especially at this price point.
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Both saliva collection and cheek swab are reliable methods for whole exome sequencing. The combination of sample collection, sequencing and variant calling have to comply with CLIA and CAP, it's a binary cut-off. We wouldn't be able to (and wouldn't want to) report back results for which we can't assure quality.