The document discusses exome sequencing and compares the performance of the xGen Exome Research Panel to other commercial exome sequencing panels. Key points:
1) An independent study directly compared the xGen panel to 3 other commercial exome panels and found that the xGen panel had a higher on-target rate and more uniform coverage than the other panels.
2) When deeply sequenced, the xGen panel was able to achieve greater than 20x coverage of over 94% of bases in the RefSeq database with only 40 million reads, which is 2.5-4 times fewer reads than the other panels tested.
3) The coverage profile produced by the xGen panel more closely resembled whole genome sequencing
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