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

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2024