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MONTAGE: a new tool for high-throughput detection of mosaic copy number variation.
BMC genomics - 24 Feb 2021
Glessner Joseph T, Chang Xiao, Liu Yichuan, Li Jin, Khan Munir, Wei Zhi, Sleiman Patrick M A, Hakonarson Hakon
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Not all cells in a given individual are identical in their genomic makeup. Mosaicism describes such a phenomenon where a mixture of genotypic states in certain genomic segments exists within the same individual. Mosaicism is a prevalent and impactful class of non-integer state copy number variation (CNV). Mosaicism implies that certain cell types or subset of cells contain a CNV in a segment of the...
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