How to Use exome in a Sentence

exome

noun
  • The exome accounts for roughly 3 percent of the whole human genome.
    Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The exome is where most genetic research has occurred, and where most diseases have been found to date.
    Dana Wechsler Linden, WSJ, 28 May 2018
  • Whole-genome sequencing tends to cost much more than whole-exome, but prices of both are declining rapidly.
    Dana Wechsler Linden, WSJ, 28 May 2018
  • So the latest study used a new technique known as whole-exome sequencing to only target genes that encode proteins.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Some 60 percent of Drosophila protein-encoding genes (known as the exome) have a parallel in humans.
    Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 26 Feb. 2021
  • But sequencing the exome would miss any changes in DNA that controls the activity of nearby genes, so there's a lot of potential information that this study design would have missed.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Helix customers pay a one-time $80 fee to have their exome sequenced and stored in the company’s server, and can later take multiple tests that access their DNA information from the same database.
    Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Both BioNTech and Moderna identify potential vaccine targets by sequencing a cancer cell’s exome, the roughly 1% of the genome known to code for protein.
    Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 21 Nov. 2022
  • There was grant money set aside by the hospital, and Obamacare helped cover a complete exome sequencing of the baby’s DNA, which pleased her on both the highest and the pettiest possible level: her father could never say the word in that tone again.
    Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Whole-exome sequencing identifies recessive WDR62 mutations in severe brain malformations.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2011

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