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A rapid, sensitive, reproducible and cost-effective method for mutation profiling of colon cancer and metastatic lymph nodes.
BMC cancer - 16 Mar 2010
Fumagalli Debora, Gavin Patrick G, Taniyama Yusuke, Kim Seung-Il, Choi Hyun-Joo, Paik Soonmyung, Pogue-Geile Katherine L
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BACKGROUND: An increasing number of studies show that genetic markers can aid in refining prognostic information and predicting the benefit from systemic therapy. Our goal was to develop a high throughput, cost-effective and simple methodology for the detection of clinically relevant hot spot mutations in colon cancer. METHODS: The Maldi-Tof mass spectrometry platform and OncoCarta panel from Sequenom were used...
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