microindel

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

micro- +‎ indel

Noun[edit]

microindel (plural microindels)

  1. (genetics) A very short indel (less than 50 bases)
    • 2015 August 27, “Increasing Nucleosome Occupancy Is Correlated with an Increasing Mutation Rate so Long as DNA Repair Machinery Is Intact”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Indel and microindel start and stop coordinates were used as the genomic coordinates of the mutation and all bases that fell within these coordinates were ignored for downstream analysis.
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