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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Ruth MacKinnon
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-43522 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Mackinnon Ruth N RN Campbell Lynda J LJ
Cancer genetics 20130601 6
Chromothripsis is a recently described phenomenon identified in cancer cells that produces catastrophic chromosome reorganization of one or a small number of chromosomes. It has been proposed that the multiple breakage events occur at a single point in time. Here we introduce the term anachromosome to describe an abnormal chromosome produced by chromothripsis. We report two cases of acute myeloid leukemia matching the description of chromothripsis that illustrate different aspects of this phenom ...[more]