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    1. These companies don’t try to generate the best results, only adequate non diagnostic results. They combine your sample with as many other people’s and run it through a sequencer. They tune this to optimize how many people there can get though to get the accuracy they find acceptable.

    This means you basically have more errors. Do they tell you how many copies of each sequence they sequenced? If it’s less than like… 10 then I’d that with a grain of salt.

    1. Complements might mean you’re looking at the wrong strand.

    2. Maybe it’s just not documented.

    3. Your body has tons of spontaneous mutations, so could just be one of those. Most are harmless.