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SUBMITTER: Makishima H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3523887 | biostudies-other | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Makishima Hideki H Maciejewski Jaroslaw P JP
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 20110425 12
The systematic application of new genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism arrays has demonstrated that somatically acquired regions of loss of heterozygosity without changes in copy number frequently occur in many types of cancer. Until recently, the ubiquity of this type of chromosomal defect had gone unrecognized because it cannot be detected by routine cytogenetic technologies. Random and recurrent patterns of copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity, also referred to as uniparental disomy, can ...[more]