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Musaffe Tuna1, Christopher I Amos

  • 1Department of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Cancer Letters
|November 27, 2012
PubMed

Keywords:
CancerMutationsStructural rearrangementsWhole-genome sequencing

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