microindels

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A form of microindel — A very short indel (less than 50 bases)

Scrabble 16

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of microindel

    Additionally, cancer single nucleotide variants and microindels are enriched within nucleosomes and both the coding and non-coding cancer mutation rate increases with increasing nucleosome occupancy.

    2015 August 27, “Increasing Nucleosome Occupancy Is Correlated with an Increasing Mutation Rate so Long as DNA Repair Machinery Is Intact”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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