A machine learning model called RealSeqS (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

A machine learning model called RealSeqS

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A machine learning model called RealSeqS has been updated to detect a small, previously overlooked family of repetitive DNA. In the blood plasma of people with solid cancer, even before symptoms, there tends to be fewer of a type of “jumping gene” called AluS elements.

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Christopher Douville

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