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copy-number variants

copy-number variants is the plural of copy-number variant.

Meaning of copy-number variant

Noun

copy-number variant (plural copy-number variants)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    CNV

Questions about copy-number variants

What is copy-number variants the plural of?
Copy-number variants is the plural of copy-number variant.

Words near copy-number variants in the dictionary

  1. copy-edit
  2. copy-edited
  3. copy-editing
  4. copy-edits
  5. copy-number variant
  6. copy-number variants
  7. copy-on-write proxies
  8. copy-on-write proxy
  9. copy-paste
  10. copy-pasteable
  11. copy-pasted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copy-number variants (page history and authors); copy-number variant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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