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Mosaic autosomal aneuploidies are detectable from single-cell RNAseq data.
BMC genomics - 25 Nov 2017
Griffiths Jonathan A, Scialdone Antonio, Marioni John C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Aneuploidies are copy number variants that affect entire chromosomes. They are seen commonly in cancer, embryonic stem cells, human embryos, and in various trisomic diseases. Aneuploidies frequently affect only a subset of cells in a sample; this is known as "mosaic" aneuploidy. A cell that harbours an aneuploidy exhibits disrupted gene expression patterns which can alter its behaviour. However,...
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