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plural NoCalls
- An SNP (in an individual) for which insufficient information is available to determine genotype.
The number of NoCalls was higher in regions where changes from heterozygous to homozygous calls occurred and might therefore indicate LOH[=loss of heterozygosity].
2008 December, Marieke J.H. Coenen, et al., "Allelic Imbalance Analysis Using a Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Microarray for the Detection of Bladder Cancer Recurrence", Clinical Cancer Research number 14, doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-1103, page 8201
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