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Normalization of Illumina Infinium whole-genome SNP data improves copy number estimates and allelic intensity ratios

Johan Staaf1,2 email, Johan Vallon-Christersson1,2 email, David Lindgren1 email, Gunnar Juliusson3 email, Richard Rosenquist4 email, Mattias Höglund1 email, Åke Borg1,2,3 email and Markus Ringnér1,2 email

Department of Oncology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, SE-22185 Lund, Sweden

CREATE Health Strategic Centre for Clinical Cancer Research, Lund University, SE-22184 Lund, Sweden

Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy, Lund University, SE-22184 Lund, Sweden

Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, SE-75185 Uppsala, Sweden

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BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:409doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-409

Published: 2 October 2008

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Additional file 1:

Supplementary figures. This file contains supplementary figures on the effect of BAF asymmetry on downstream analysis, a comparison of CN estimates before and after tQN, and a comparison of BAF asymmetry for regions of allelic imbalance before and after tQN.

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