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Does anyone know what Large Deletion when doing CNV detection is?

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10.4 years ago

mafonso ▴ 10

Hi guys,

The question is in the title.

I would really appreciate an answer :).

Thanks!!

genome CONTRA CNV Illumina • 1.6k views

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Does anyone know? Yes.

ADD REPLY • link 10.4 years ago by karl.stamm 4.1k

score 1 · Answer 1 · 2014-07-14

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poisonAlien ★ 3.2k

It can be anything from deletion of several kb regions to chromosome arm loss.

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But isn't that the same as CNV detection? I'm sorry, I'm a newbie in this field.

ADD REPLY • link 10.4 years ago by mafonso ▴ 10

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A decrease in copy number will generally be due to a large deletion, so yes, they can be the same.

ADD REPLY • link 10.4 years ago by Devon Ryan 104k