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Nature Genetics 40, 380 - 382 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng0408-380
Adding pathogens by genomic subtraction
Laura MacConaill1 & Matthew Meyerson1
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Laura MacConaill & Matthew Meyerson are in the Center for Cancer Genome Discovery and Department of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA and the Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
e-mail: matthew_meyerson@dfci.harvard.edu
Abstract
Two studies report the application of high-throughput sequencing technologies to discover infectious agents associated with diseased human tissues. These findings herald a breakthrough in the field of pathogen discovery.
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