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Autosomal recessive is a pattern of inheritance characteristic of some genetic disorders.
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Chromosomes are threadlike structures made of protein and a single molecule of DNA that serve to carry the genomic information from cell to cell.
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Genetic architecture is the combined effect of all genetic influences on a trait.
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Structural variation refers to differences between genomes involving larger segments of DNA.
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RNA-seq, short for RNA sequencing, is a method for sequencing an entire set of RNA molecules.
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Phenotypic variance is the observed variability of a particular trait. For many measurable traits (such as height, skin color, and blood pressure) phenotypic variation can be thought of as a distribution.
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A pathogenic variant is a genomic variant that may increase a person’s risk of developing a condition, disorder or disease.
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A pangenome is a collection of genome sequences from many individuals of the same species.
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While some sequencing technologies produce reads that are only a few hundred nucleotides long, some methods can generate reads that are thousands to hundreds of thousands of nucleotides long, known as “long-read DNA sequencing.”
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Local ancestry refers to segments of an individual’s genome that can be traced back to ancestors from different populations living in different places and at different times.