ORIGINAL RESEARCH

The impact of sequencing depth on accuracy of single nucleotide variant calls

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Genotek Inc., Moscow

Correspondence should be addressed: Valery Ilyinsky
per. Nastavnichesky, d. 17, str. 1, Moscow, Russia, 105120; ur.ketoneg@yrelav

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Acknowledgements: the authors thank Anna Davydova of Genotek for her helpful comments.

All authors' contribution to this work is equal: selection and analysis of literature, planning of the manuscript's structure, data interpretation, drafting of the manuscript, editing.

Received: 2017-06-22 Accepted: 2017-06-27 Published online: 2017-07-19
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