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SUBMITTER: Scherer SW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2698291 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scherer Stephen W SW Lee Charles C Birney Ewan E Altshuler David M DM Eichler Evan E EE Carter Nigel P NP Hurles Matthew E ME Feuk Lars L
Nature genetics 20070701 7 Suppl
There has been an explosion of data describing newly recognized structural variants in the human genome. In the flurry of reporting, there has been no standard approach to collecting the data, assessing its quality or describing identified features. This risks becoming a rampant problem, in particular with respect to surveys of copy number variation and their application to disease studies. Here, we consider the challenges in characterizing and documenting genomic structural variants. From this, ...[more]