English Explanatory Dictionary

copy-number variant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A DNA sequence, 1000 nucleotides (or synonymously base pairs) in length or longer, that is present a variable number of times as copies in a genome relative to a reference genome.

Word forms

copy-number variant copy-number variants

Synonyms

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