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Monogenic and polygenic inheritance become instruments for clonal selection.
Nature - 1 Aug 2020
Loh Po-Ru, Genovese Giulio, McCarroll Steven A
Abstract excerpt
Clonally expanded blood cells that contain somatic mutations (clonal haematopoiesis) are commonly acquired with age and increase the risk of blood cancer1-9. The blood clones identified so far contain diverse large-scale mosaic chromosomal alterations (deletions, duplications and copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity (CN-LOH)) on all chromosomes1,2,5,6,9, but the sources of selective advantage that drive the...
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