Abbreviations
- BAC:
-
Bacterial artificial chromosome
- cDNA:
-
Complementary DNA
- CENP-A:
-
Centromere protein A
- CNV:
-
Copy number variation
- dbSNP:
-
Single nucleotide polymorphism database
- EBR:
-
Evolutionary breakpoint region
- ENCODE:
-
Encyclopedia of DNA elements
- FISH:
-
Fluorescence in situ hybridization
- HSB:
-
Homologous synteny block
- LINE:
-
Long interspersed element
- ncRNA:
-
Non-coding RNA
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Griffin, D., Burt, D.W. All chromosomes great and small: 10 years on. Chromosome Res 22, 1–6 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10577-014-9413-0
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