Evaluation of saliva as a source of accurate whole‐genome and microbiome sequencing data

Abstract

This study sets out to establish the suitability of saliva‐based whole‐genome sequencing (WGS) through a comparison against blood‐based WGS. To fully appraise the observed differences, we developed a novel technique of pseudo‐replication. We also investigated the potential of characterizing individual salivary microbiomes from non‐human DNA fragments found in saliva.