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Abstract

Retrieval of one or more samples from a pediatric subject for genetic analysis of the subject's nucleic acid is often invasive and inconvenient. Methods for analyzing nucleic acid include non-invasive and/or convenient methods of sample retrieval such as the retrieval of one or more samples for genetic analysis from a patient that may have an infection in conjunction with testing for the infection. In one aspect, the infection is strep throat. Methods for analyzing nucleic acid may also include the retrieval of a sample from a placenta that has been delivered during birth of a child. In one aspect, the sample is cord blood and in another aspect the sample is chorion tissue. Methods for analyzing nucleic acid include conducting a genetic analysis on the retrieved sample by exposing a nucleic acid to a plurality of MIPs and subsequently sequencing and aligning and assembling the reads generated therefrom.

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