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NoCall
NoCall
English
Noun
NoCall (plural NoCalls)
- A SNP (in an individual) for which insufficient information is available to determine genotype.
- 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:
- 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: