Indel

The word Indel (plural: indels ) is a fusion of insertion and deletion mutations in the genome.

The term Indel serves to summarize there insertions and deletions, where they often distinguished by their effects in their results are either not distinct or equal. In particular, polymorphisms resulting based on a combined deletion / insertion mutation, referred to as indels; as for example in genetic testing of dog and wolf populations or plant chloroplasts. According to a recent definition of the 1000 Genomes Project smaller insertions and deletions of a length of not more than 50 nucleotide building blocks are called indels, larger insertions and deletions, however, as structural variants ( copy number variants also, English CNVs ).