Copy number variation (CNV) has recently been identified as a major cause of structural variation in the genome, involving both duplications and deletions of sequences that typically range in ...

Copy number variations (CNVs) have been linked to dozens of human diseases, but can they also represent the genetic variation that was so essential to our evolution? More recently, both aneuploidy ...

A breakthrough method for analyzing the DNA of centuries-old plant samples has given scientists an edge in combating the ...

Increasingly, however, researchers have found that large-scale deletions and duplications are the norm and represent a significant source of human variation.Jonathan Sebat and colleagues based ...