Whole genome distribution and ethnic differentiation of copy number variation in Caucasian and Asian populations.

Although copy number variation (CNV) has recently received much attention as a form of structure variation within the human genome, knowledge is still inadequate on fundamental CNV characteristics such as occurrence rate, genomic distribution and ethnic differentiation. In the present study, we used...

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Main Authors: Jian Li, Tielin Yang, Liang Wang, Han Yan, Yinping Zhang, Yan Guo, Feng Pan, Zhixin Zhang, Yumei Peng, Qi Zhou, Lina He, Xuezhen Zhu, Hongyi Deng, Shawn Levy, Christopher J Papasian, Betty M Drees, James J Hamilton, Robert R Recker, Jing Cheng, Hong-Wen Deng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-11-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2776354?pdf=render