Deep Sequence Analysis of non-small cell lung cancer: Integrated analysis of gene expression, alternative splicing, and single nucleotide variations in lung adenocarcinomas with and without oncogenic KRAS mutations
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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Kalari KR
PROVIDER: S-ECPF-GEOD-34914 | biostudies-other | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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