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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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McCarroll, S. Copy-number analysis goes more than skin deep.Nat Genet 40, 5–6 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0108-5
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