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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kinsella, Marcus, Patel, Anand, Bafna, Vineet
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4117757/