Structural variation nomenclature ambiguity

Question

[prasundutta87]

Hi,

I have a general nomenclature query. As I am going through some structural variation papers, a lot of the papers use the word CNV, duplication and deletions separately. I understood that both duplication and deletions (>1000 bp) come under CNVs. I have also seen plots having the above SVs compared to each other. Is this correct? Or there is some other explainantion to this nomenclature difference?

Regards, Prasun

[samuel.a.odonnell]

Without knowing the particularities of the paper, separating CNVs from duplications and/or deletions does not seem appropriate. I have no idea of when duplications/deletions would not be considered CNVs. Do you have a link to the article?