El espectro de mutaciones revelado por las secuencias genómicas emparejadas de un paciente con cáncer de pulmón

William Lee1, Zhaoshi Jiang, Jinfeng Liu

  • 1Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080, USA.

Nature
|May 28, 2010
PubMed
Resumen

Este estudio secuenció un tumor primario de pulmón, revelando más de 50.000 mutaciones somáticas, incluidas nuevas variaciones en las regiones de codificación y alteraciones estructurales. Destaca las distintas presiones de selección que actúan sobre los genes dentro del entorno tumoral.

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