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Clinical mutation assay of tumors: new developments.
Anti-cancer drugs - 1 Jan 2017
Starostik Petr
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Mutation detection in tumors started with classical cytogenetics as the method of choice more than 50 years ago. Karyotyping proved to be sensitive enough to detect deletions or duplications of large chromosome segments, and translocations. Over time, new techniques were developed to detect mutations that are much smaller in scope. The availability of Sanger sequencing and the invention of the PCR improved the...
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