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Identification of rare germline copy number variations over-represented in five human cancer types.
Molecular cancer - 3 Feb 2015
Park Richard W, Kim Tae-Min, Kasif Simon, Park Peter J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Copy number variations (CNVs) are increasingly recognized as significant disease susceptibility markers in many complex disorders including cancer. The availability of a large number of chromosomal copy number profiles in both malignant and normal tissues in cancer patients presents an opportunity to characterize not only somatic alterations but also germline CNVs, which may confer increased risk for...
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