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WUSTL-led Team Compiles Human Structural Variant Resource

May 27, 2020
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NEW YORK – A team led by Washington University in St. Louis researchers has profiled rare and ultra-rare structural variants in nearly 18,000 high-coverage whole-genome sequences in an effort to fill in remaining gaps in the understanding of the larger variants that impact protein-coding and non-coding portions of the genome.

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