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Indel

Definition
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An indel is a small insertion or deletion of bases relative to a reference genome.

Topics
Core genetics
Related
Deletion Frameshift Variant Insertion

Why it matters in GWAS

Indels can affect coding sequence, splicing, and regulatory regions, but they are often harder to genotype, impute, and harmonize than SNPs.

Example usage

"The methods include Indel to support interpretation of the main results."

Deletion Frameshift Variant Insertion Structural Variant Variant Annotation
Related-term network

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Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Koboldt DC. (2020). Best practices for variant calling in clinical and population sequencing. Nat Methods.
← Incidence Independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) →

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