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Clinical Consequences of Chromothripsis and Other Catastrophic Cellular Events.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2018
Fukami Maki, Kurahashi Hiroki
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Chromothripsis was initially described as a novel cause of chromosomal rearrangements in cancer cells and was subsequently implicated in the development of gross chromosomal rearrangements in the germline. Other catastrophic cellular events such as chromoanasynthesis and chromoplexy have also been observed in human cells. Such events have been associated with various phenotypes including mental retardation and...
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