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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

May 15, 2007
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The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute’s Cancer Genome Project has released version 29 of the COSMIC (Catalog of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) database. COSMIC release 29 includes 22 new resequencing studies, comprising 567 new genes within which 192 new mutations have been identified.

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