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Copy-number variation: the end of the human genome?
Trends in biotechnology - 1 Aug 2009
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Copy-number variation (CNV)--the presence of additional or missing segments of chromosomes in some individuals--has been found to be abundant in humans and adds another dimension of variation to the genome. Copy-number variants have already been associated with some diseases and disease susceptibilities and are likely to prove as significant as sequence polymorphisms in this respect. Changes in copy number of...
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