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A large-scale survey of genetic copy number variations among Han Chinese residing in Taiwan.
BMC genetics - 24 Dec 2008
Lin Chien-Hsing, Li Ling-Hui, Ho Sheng-Feng, Chuang Tzu-Po, Wu Jer-Yuarn, Chen Yuan-Tsong, Fann Cathy S J
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BACKGROUND: Copy number variations (CNVs) have recently been recognized as important structural variations in the human genome. CNVs can affect gene expression and thus may contribute to phenotypic differences. The copy number inferring tool (CNIT) is an effective hidden Markov model-based algorithm for estimating allele-specific copy number and predicting chromosomal alterations from single nucleotide...
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