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Exome-wide analysis of bi-allelic alterations identifies a Lynch phenotype in The Cancer Genome Atlas.
Genome medicine - 14 Sept 2018
Buckley Alexandra R, Ideker Trey, Carter Hannah, Harismendy Olivier, Schork Nicholas J
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BACKGROUND: Cancer susceptibility germline variants generally require somatic alteration of the remaining allele to drive oncogenesis and, in some cases, tumor mutational profiles. Whether combined germline and somatic bi-allelic alterations are universally required for germline variation to influence tumor mutational profile is unclear. Here, we performed an exome-wide analysis of the frequency and functional...
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