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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2018 Oct;49(10):2549–2554. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.020371

Figure 1. Types of genetic variation, ranked according to size (length of DNA in base pairs), detection methods, clinical impact and population frequency.

Figure 1.

SNP = single nucleotide polymorphism; indel = short insertion / deletion; VNTR = variable number of tandem repeats; LINE/SINE = long / short interspersed repetitive elements; FISH = fluorescent-labeled in-situ hybridization; LM = light-microscopy. NGS = next generation sequencing.