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Structural Variant

SV: A large-scale change in the genome, deletions, duplications, inversions, or translocations. SVs are harder to detect than SNPs but can have major phenotypic effects.

Example in a sentence

Structural variant calling identified a large inversion on chromosome 2.

Key facts

  • Large events; often need long reads or special callers.
  • Include deletions, duplications, inversions, translocations.

Category: Genetics & Variation

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