Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

copy-number variant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.73 in modern English

Syllables: copy--num-ber -vari-ant
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A DNA sequence, 1000 nucleotides (or synonymously base pairs) in length or longer, that is present a variable number of times as copies in a genome relative to a reference genome.

Inflected Forms

copy-number variants (plural)

Synonyms

CNV

Questions

What does copy-number variant mean?: A DNA sequence, 1000 nucleotides (or synonymously base pairs) in length or longer, that is present a variable number of times as copies in a genome relative to a reference genome.

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