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SUBMITTER: Chen W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3150386 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Wanting W Hayward Caroline C Wright Alan F AF Hicks Andrew A AA Vitart Veronique V Knott Sara S Wild Sarah H SH Pramstaller Peter P PP Wilson James F JF Rudan Igor I Porteous David J DJ
PloS one 20110804 8
Genome analysis provides a powerful approach to test for evidence of genetic variation within and between geographical regions and local populations. Copy number variants which comprise insertions, deletions and duplications of genomic sequence provide one such convenient and informative source. Here, we investigate copy number variants from genome wide scans of single nucleotide polymorphisms in three European population isolates, the island of Vis in Croatia, the islands of Orkney in Scotland ...[more]