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Chromothripsis-like patterns are recurring but heterogeneously distributed features in a survey of 22,347 cancer genome screens.
BMC genomics - 29 Jan 2014
Cai Haoyang, Kumar Nitin, Bagheri Homayoun C, von Mering Christian, Robinson Mark D, Baudis Michael
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BACKGROUND: Chromothripsis is a recently discovered phenomenon of genomic rearrangement, possibly arising during a single genome-shattering event. This could provide an alternative paradigm in cancer development, replacing the gradual accumulation of genomic changes with a "one-off" catastrophic event. However, the term has been used with varying operational definitions, with the minimal consensus being a large...
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