During my RNAseq data analysis, I encountered a problem where the statistics from MultiQC from the STAR method showed that 70% of my trimmed reads were aligned, but when I ran using the same BAM files, it said that only 3% of my reads were assigned.

Why is that? Should I proceed further or do I need to perform additional checkups? For reference i used HG38.p14 version from NCBI.

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