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Looking at insertions and deletions

The variants above are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) - or rather multiple nucleotide polymorphisms (MNPs) since several come together.

What about other types of variation?

Challenge

Scroll around a bit and see if you can find a deletion or insertion variant - what do these look like?

If stuck, try looking around the gene PF3D7_0220300. What read evidence supports this deletion?

Or look around the PfCSP gene again (PF3D7_0304600) - can you see anything odd here?

Note. Insertions look like purple bars in IGV. Can you find any of these?