The oncological relevance of fragile sites in cancer

In this Perspective, Simpson, Pye, and Whitaker discuss recent research identifying structural genomic variants in human cancers with a particular focus on deletions and duplications at genomic fragile sites. They argue that tumours with predominantly fragile site structural variants represent a dis...

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Main Authors: Benjamin S. Simpson, Hayley Pye, Hayley C. Whitaker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02020-5