The elusive evidence for chromothripsis
The chromothripsis hypothesis suggests an extraordinary one-step catastrophic genomic event allowing a chromosome to ‘shatter into many pieces’ and reassemble into a functioning chromosome. Recent efforts have aimed to detect chromothripsis by looking for a genomic signature, characterized by a larg...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4117757/ |