Mobile element insertions are frequent in oesophageal adenocarcinomas and can mislead paired-end sequencing analysis

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BACKGROUND: Mobile elements are active in the human genome, both in the germline and cancers, where they can mutate driver genes. RESULTS: While analysing whole genome paired-end sequencing of oesophageal adenocarcinomas to find genomic rearrangements, we identified three ways in which new mobile element insertions appear in the data, resembling translocation or insertion junctions: inserts where unique sequence...

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