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Types of Structural Variation

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Chapter 5: Genetic Variation and Genome Diversity

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An interactive diagram showing a reference chromosome segment with lettered blocks (A-B-C-D-E-F). Dropdown menu lets users select a structural variant type (deletion, duplication, inversion, translocation, CNV). The diagram animates the rearrangement: deletion removes a block, duplication adds a copy, inversion reverses a block's orientation (shown with reversed colors/arrows), translocation moves a block to a second chromosome shown below, and CNV shows variable copy counts with a slider from 0 to 4 copies. Each variant type displays a brief description of its mechanism and a clinical example.