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The Genomics DeepDive project
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Add chromosomal regions as separate entity next to genes #318

Open Colossus opened 8 years ago

Colossus commented 8 years ago

Lots of papers are talking about deletions of certain regions ("The findings outlined below suggest DIA1R is joining an increasing number of genes able to cause both ASD and/or MR. In the first study , examination of a patient with developmental delay , no expressive speech , mental retardation , and microcephaly , revealed a 4.0-Mb heterozygous deletion at Xp11 .3 -- p11 .4 .")

We often wrongly pick up the p's as genes, but the regions themselves are probably very useful.