Access

Letter

Nature Genetics 38, 75–81 (1 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/ng1697

A high-resolution survey of deletion polymorphism in the human genome

Donald F Conrad , T Daniel Andrews , Nigel P Carter , Matthew E Hurles & Jonathan K Pritchard

Recent work has shown that copy number polymorphism is an important class of genetic variation in human genomes. Here we report a new method that uses SNP genotype data from parent-offspring trios to identify polymorphic deletions.