This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 7.

Song title: Too Common to Be True
Original Base by Base episode: 7: Using high-resolution variant frequencies to empower clinical genome interpretation

Article metadata:
Article title: Using high-resolution variant frequencies to empower clinical genome interpretation
Journal: Genetics in Medicine
DOI: 10.1038/gim.2017.26
Reference: Whiffin N, Minikel E, Walsh R, et al. Using high-resolution variant frequencies to empower clinical genome interpretation. Genet Med advance online publication 18 May 2017. doi:10.1038/gim.2017.26

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Late-night screens and quiet graphs,
A million lives in tiny halves,
If it shows up everywhere you look,
Maybe it’s not the culprit in the book.

Pre-Chorus
Set the ceiling, draw the line,
Prevalence to the counting time,
If the numbers don’t add up in the crowd,
Let that heavy claim come down.

Chorus
Too common to be true, let it go,
If the frequency’s high, it won’t be the blow,
We’re cutting through the noise, making room for the new,
A sharper kind of mercy in the data we pursue.

Verse 2
A single letter, a heart that races,
We weigh the odds in reference traces,
A Poisson beat, a confidence bound,
How many times can it show and still be profound?

Bridge
Not every label deserves the light,
Some “pathogenic” fades on review at night,
With every threshold tuned to the disease,
We trade false certainty for clarity and peace.

Final Chorus
Too common to be true, let it go,
If the count runs wild, it won’t be the foe,
We’re narrowing the search till the signal shines through,
And the rarest notes can finally tell the truth we knew.