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Chromosomal catastrophe is a frequent event in clinically insignificant prostate cancer.
Oncotarget - 6 Oct 2015
Kovtun Irina V, Murphy Stephen J, Johnson Sarah H, Cheville John C, Vasmatzis George
Abstract excerpt
Massive genomic rearrangements, a result of single catastrophic event termed chromothrispsis or chromosomal catastrophe, have been identified in a variety of human cancers. In a few cancer types, chromothripsis was found to be associated with poor prognosis. We performed mate-pair sequencing and analysis of structural rearrangements in 132 prostate cancer cases which included clinically insignificant Gleason...
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