Estimating Copy Number and Allelic Variation at the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Locus Using Short Reads.

The study of genomic regions that contain gene copies and structural variation is a major challenge in modern genomics. Unlike variation involving single nucleotide changes, data on the variation of copy number is difficult to collect and few tools exist for analyzing the variation between individua...

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Main Authors: Shishi Luo, Jane A Yu, Yun S Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-09-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5025152?pdf=render