SACGF / SACGF/variantgrid

Cytogenetics - storing variants with uncertainty

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Description

Cyto have a lot of data. It's currently stored in NxClinical in ISCN format

They use microarray probes that tile the genome, so data has inherit uncertainty - ie between these 2 probes, though sometimes they will export the data to be ISCNs w/o uncertainty, using say midpoint between 2 probes

If we could bring in cyto data, it would be useful for SA Path and Shariant. To do that, we would need to support uncertainty.

I uncertainty is a fundamental part of Variant, ie the same start/end but with different uncertainty is different.

```
outer_start = IntegerField(null=True)
outer_end = IntegerField(null=True)
```

You need to be able to store *no uncertainty* and *unknown* (ie ?), maybe magic numbers to avoid another boolean field, ie:

```
outer_start = null # no uncertainty (default in almost all cases)
outer_start = -1 # unknown
outer_start = 4231312 # the coordinate
```

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