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Sequencing technology does not eliminate biological variability

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Figure 1: Biological variability measured with sequencing and microarrays.

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    Kasper D Hansen, Rafael A Irizarry & Jeffrey T Leek

  2. Department of Community Health, Section of Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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Hansen, K., Wu, Z., Irizarry, R. et al. Sequencing technology does not eliminate biological variability. Nat Biotechnol 29, 572–573 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1910

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