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| In the context of variant representation, parsimony means representing a variant in as few nucleotides as possible without reducing the length of any allele to 0. It is a property describing the nature of the length of a variant's alleles and is defined as follows: | | In the context of variant representation, parsimony means representing a variant in as few nucleotides as possible without reducing the length of any allele to 0. It is a property describing the nature of the length of a variant's alleles and is defined as follows: |
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− | A variant is parsimonious if it is represented in as few nucleotides as possible | + | A variant is parsimonious if and only if it is represented in as few nucleotides as possible |
| without an allele of length 0. | | without an allele of length 0. |
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