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Nature Genetics 40, 5 - 6 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng0108-5

Copy-number analysis goes more than skin deep

Steven A McCarroll1

  1. Steven A. McCarroll is at the Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. e-mail: smccarro@broad.mit.edu


Accurate measurements of genomic copy number polymorphisms are required to define their medical relevance, but obtaining such measurements for multiallelic copy number variants has been challenging. A copy-number study of psoriasis now sets some useful precedents for a maturing field.

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