indel mutation

What Is An Indel Mutation?

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What Is An Indel Mutation? A mutation named with the blend of insertion and deletion. It refers to a length difference between two ALLELES where it is unknowable if the difference was originally caused by a SEQUENCE INSERTION or by a SEQUENCE DELETION. What is an indel in genomics? Sehn, in Clinical Genomics, 2015. Insertion–deletion