How I Found Out About My Genetic Variants And The Tools That I Used to Understand Them
This is a blog post about how I found out about the variants in my genome and the tools that I used to help me understand them. I got whole genome testing done. I got my whole genome analyzed by Dante Labs and Sequencing which are companies that specialize in Next-generation Sequencing (NGS) which is a modern method of analyzing genetic material that allows for the rapid sequencing of large amount of DNA or RNA. My mother got her whole genome analyzed by Sequencing. https://us.dantelabs.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@DanteLabs https://sequencing.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@sequencing I obtained Binary Alignment Map (BAM) file and Variant Call Format (VCF) file from both Dante Labs and Sequencing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Alignment_Map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Call_Format https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4KqVfCdLo0 I used Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) for finding out variants and their chromosome location with the use of the BAM file and VCF file. If us