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Chromothripsis under the microscope: a cytogenetic perspective of two cases of AML with catastrophic chromosome rearrangement.
Cancer genetics - 1 Jun 2013
Mackinnon Ruth N, Campbell Lynda J
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Chromothripsis is a recently described phenomenon identified in cancer cells that produces catastrophic chromosome reorganization of one or a small number of chromosomes. It has been proposed that the multiple breakage events occur at a single point in time. Here we introduce the term anachromosome to describe an abnormal chromosome produced by chromothripsis. We report two cases of acute myeloid leukemia...
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