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*100 Semi-supercentenarians and older as a proposed sample set for the Archon Genomics X PRIZE Validation Protocol*
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*100 Semi-supercentenarians and older as a proposed sample set for the Archon Genomics X PRIZE Validation Protocol*

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  • Nir Barzilai2 

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The "Archon Genomics X PRIZE Validation Protocol":http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5731/version/1 has been posted in part to solicit comments from the scientific community. Here, we suggest 100 subjects age >=105 years as the source of DNAs for the competition.

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Perls, T., Barzilai, N. *100 Semi-supercentenarians and older as a proposed sample set for the Archon Genomics X PRIZE Validation Protocol* . Nat Prec (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2011.5756.1

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Keywords

  • Whole Genome Sequencing
  • genomics
  • Archon Genomics X PRIZE Validation Protocol Standards Paper
  • centenarian
  • supercentenarian

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