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Nature Genetics 40, 685 - 686 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng0608-685
Molecular screening for new fusion genes in cancer
Sverre Heim1 & Felix Mitelman2
- Sverre Heim is in the Department of Medical Genetics, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Rikshospitalet University Hospital and University of Oslo, Norway.
- Felix Mitelman is in the Department of Clinical Genetics, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. e-mail: felix.mitelman@med.lu.se
Abstract
Gene fusions arising from translocations make an important contribution to the development of cancer. A new study uses high-throughput sequencing to characterize such fusions at an unprecedented level of resolution.
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