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The clinical context of copy number variation in the human genome.
Expert reviews in molecular medicine - 9 Mar 2010
Lee Charles, Scherer Stephen W
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During the past five years, copy number variation (CNV) has emerged as a highly prevalent form of genomic variation, bridging the interval between long-recognised microscopic chromosomal alterations and single-nucleotide changes. These genomic segmental differences among humans reflect the dynamic nature of genomes, and account for both normal variations among us and variations that predispose to conditions of...
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