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Deletion vs Indel - What's the difference?

deletion | indel |

As nouns the difference between deletion and indel

is that deletion is deletion while indel is (genetics) either an insertion or deletion mutation in the genetic code.

deletion

English

Noun

(wikipedia deletion) (en noun)
  • An item that has been or will be deleted.
  • The act of deleting.
  • (genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome

    • indel

    English

    (wikipedia indel)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (genetics) Either an insertion or deletion mutation in the genetic code.
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    • , passage=The observation that indel's are enriched in linker relative to core sequence is also difficult to reconcile with a model of linker sequence conservation, because sites that are constrained for substitutions are also likely to be constrained for ' indel events. }}

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