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Nucleotide sequence

Definition
AI-generated

Ordered string of nucleotide symbols representing DNA or RNA including ambiguity codes; basic data type for alignment and variant representation.

Topics
Sequencing and omics tech
Related
Reference Allele Variant Variant Call Format (VCF)

Why it matters in GWAS

Bioinformatics methods determine how variants, expression, and epigenetic state are measured and summarized—shaping GWAS covariates, multi-omic integration, and functional follow-up.

Example usage

"Base-level annotation tracked each Nucleotide sequence substitution during variant normalization and QC."

Reference Allele Variant Variant Call Format (VCF)
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

  • Lesk AM. (2019). Introduction to Bioinformatics. Oxford University Press.
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