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Large-Scale Pan-Cancer Analysis Expands Set of Alterations Disrupting Key Genes, Pathways

Feb 05, 2020
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NEW YORK – Members of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC)'s Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium have integrated and analyzed whole-genome sequence data for thousands of tumors spanning 38 cancer types generated through ICGC and the Cancer Genome Atlas project (TCGA), getting a closer look at the point mutations, chromosomal rearrangements, and other alterations contributing to cancer development and behavior. 

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