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SUBMITTER: Wang TL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC138581 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Tian-Li TL Maierhofer Christine C Speicher Michael R MR Lengauer Christoph C Vogelstein Bert B Kinzler Kenneth W KW Velculescu Victor E VE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20021202 25
Alterations in the genetic content of a cell are the underlying cause of many human diseases, including cancers. We have developed a method, called digital karyotyping, that provides quantitative analysis of DNA copy number at high resolution. This approach involves the isolation and enumeration of short sequence tags from specific genomic loci. Analysis of human cancer cells by using this method identified gross chromosomal changes as well as amplifications and deletions, including regions not ...[more]