The Babel tower revisited: SNPs - Indels - CNVs. Confusion in naming sequence variant always rises from ashes

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-200

  Gourraud, P A ^a   Feolo, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CNV; Indel; MHC region; Nomenclature; SNP

Indexed keywords

HLA G ANTIGEN; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENETICS; INDEL MUTATION; LETTER; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA, VIRAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 76249091002     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2009.01424.x     Document Type: Letter

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