Copy-number analysis goes more than skin deep (original) (raw)

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Accurate measurements of genomic copy number polymorphisms are required to define their medical relevance, but obtaining such measurements for multiallelic copy number variants has been challenging. A copy-number study of psoriasis now sets some useful precedents for a maturing field.

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  1. Steven A. McCarroll is at the Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. smccarro@broad.mit.edu,
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