When Trying to Locate a Mutation Responsible for a Disease

question 43

Multiple Choice

When trying to locate a mutation responsible for a disease, exome sequencing would provide an effective shortcut because

• A)it targets just protein-encoding sequences.
• B)it targets the sequencing or rRNA and tRNA encoding sequences of DNA.
• C)it provides the entire genome sequence.
• D)it targets the sequencing of mitochondrial DNA.

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