Journal
BRIEFINGS IN FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 305-314Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elv014
Keywords
structural variation; copy number variants
Funding
- Marie Curie Intraeuropean Fellowship (IEF)
- European Union [262055]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
- Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa [SEV-2012-0208]
- Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca del Departament d'Economia [2009 SGR 1502]
- PN de I+D+I
- ISCIII [SAF2008-00357]
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In the past decade, the view on genomic structural variation (SV) has been changed completely. SVs, previously considered rare events, are now recognized as the largest source of interindividual genetic variation affecting more bases than single nucleotide polymorphisms, variable number of tandem repeats and other small genetic variants. They have also been shown to play a role in phenotypic variation and in disease. In this review, the authors will provide an introduction to SV; a short historical perspective on the research of this source of genomic variation; a description of the types of structural variants, and on how they may have arisen; and an overview on methods of detecting structural variants, focusing on the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data.
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