EXPERIMENTAL and MOLECULAR MEDICINE, Vol. 41, No. 9, 618-628, September 2009 A comprehensive profile of DNA copy number variations in a Korean population: identification of copy number invariant regions among Koreans Jae-Pil Jeon1*, Sung-Mi Shim1*, Jongsun Jung2, trols for further CNV studies. Lastly, we demonstrated Hye-Young Nam1, Hye-Jin Lee1, Bermseok Oh2, that the CNV information could stratify even a single Kuchan Kimm2, Hyung-Lae Kim2 ethnic population with a proper reference genome as- and Bok-Ghee Han1,3 sembly from multiple heterogeneous populations. Keywords: gene dosage; genetic variation; hap- 1Division of Biobank for Health Sciences 2 lotypes; Korea; polymorphism; single nucleotide Center for Genome Science Korea National Institute of Health Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Introduction Seoul 122-701, Korea 3 Corresponding author: Tel, 82-2-380-1522; Human genetic variations comprise various types of Fax, 82-2-354-1078; E-mail,
[email protected] structural genomic changes and single nucleotide *These authors contributed equally to this work. polymorphisms (SNPs). Large microscopic changes DOI 10.3858/emm.2009.41.9.068 affect more than tens of millions of bases (mb) in the genome, and are rare in healthy individuals, but Accepted 20 April 2009 smaller structural variations ranging from 1 kb to hundreds of kb are frequent and widespread even in Abbreviations: CNVs, copy number variations; CNVR, copy number normal individuals, contributing to human genetic variation region; LCL, lymphoblastoid cell line; QMPSF,