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The somatic mutation landscape of the human body.
Genome biology - 24 Dec 2019
García-Nieto Pablo E, Morrison Ashby J, Fraser Hunter B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Somatic mutations in healthy tissues contribute to aging, neurodegeneration, and cancer initiation, yet they remain largely uncharacterized. RESULTS: To gain a better understanding of the genome-wide distribution and functional impact of somatic mutations, we leverage the genomic information contained in the transcriptome to uniformly call somatic mutations from over 7500 tissue samples, representing...
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