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Large-scale analysis of acquired chromosomal alterations in non-tumor samples from patients with cancer.
Nature biotechnology - 1 Jan 2020
Jakubek Y A, Chang K, Sivakumar S, Yu Y, Giordano M R, Fowler J, Huff C D, Kadara H, Vilar E, Scheet P
Abstract excerpt
Mosaicism, the presence of subpopulations of cells bearing somatic mutations, is associated with disease and aging and has been detected in diverse tissues, including apparently normal cells adjacent to tumors. To analyze mosaicism on a large scale, we surveyed haplotype-specific somatic copy number alterations (sCNAs) in 1,708 normal-appearing adjacent-to-tumor (NAT) tissue samples from 27 cancer sites and in...
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