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Molecular screening for new fusion genes in cancer

Nature Genetics volume 40, pages 685–686 (2008)Cite this article

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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  1. Sverre Heim is in the Department of Medical Genetics, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Rikshospitalet University Hospital and University of Oslo, Norway.,

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  2. Felix Mitelman is in the Department of Clinical Genetics, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. felix.mitelman@med.lu.se,

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