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Somatic Variants: New Kids on the Block in Human Immunogenetics.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Dec 2019
Van Horebeek L, Dubois B, Goris A
Abstract excerpt
Somatic variants are not inherited but acquired during an individual's lifetime, and individuals are increasingly considered as complex mosaics of genetically distinct cells. Whereas this concept is long-recognized in cancer, this review focuses on the growing role of somatic variants in immune cells in nonmalignant immune-related disorders, such as primary immunodeficiency and autoimmune diseases. Older case...
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