Chunk #36 — METHODS — Birdseye (‘CNV discovery’)

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Integrated genotype calling and association analysis of SNPs, common copy number polymorphisms and rare CNVs.

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Birdseye is an HMM to find regions of variable copy number in a sample. The hidden state is the true copy number of the individual’s genome; the observed states are the normalized intensity measurements of each probe on the array.