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Whole-Exome Sequencing of Salivary Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jan 2017
Kang Hyunseok, Tan Marietta, Bishop Justin A, Jones Siân, Sausen Mark, Ha Patrick K, Agrawal Nishant
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is the most common salivary gland malignancy. To explore the genetic origins of MEC, we performed systematic genomic analyses of these tumors. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Whole-exome sequencing and gene copy-number analyses were performed for 18 primary cancers with matched normal tissue. FISH was used to determine the presence or absence of the MECT1-MAML2 translocation in 17...
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