Largest contiguous homopolymer run of the variant allele
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Repetitive sequences such as homopolymers are difficult to map to the reference because they are associated with multiple alignment possibilities. The proximity of a long homopolymer to your variant site increases the chance that reads were mapped incorrectly in the surrounding region and lowers confidence in the call. If there is a homopolymer on either side of a site, this annotation outputs the length of its largest run.