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    Map** recurrent mosaic copy number variation in human neurons

    When somatic cells acquire complex karyotypes, they often are removed by the immune system. Mutant somatic cells that evade immune surveillance can lead to cancer. Neurons with complex karyotypes arise during ...

    Chen Sun, Kunal Kathuria, Sarah B. Emery, ByungJun Kim in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Genomic data resources of the Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network for neuropsychiatric diseases

    Somatic mosaicism is defined as an occurrence of two or more populations of cells having genomic sequences differing at given loci in an individual who is derived from a single zygote. It is a characteristic o...

    McKinzie A. Garrison, Yeongjun Jang, Taejeong Bae, Adriana Cherskov in Scientific Data (2023)

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    Comprehensive identification of somatic nucleotide variants in human brain tissue

    Post-zygotic mutations incurred during DNA replication, DNA repair, and other cellular processes lead to somatic mosaicism. Somatic mosaicism is an established cause of various diseases, including cancers. How...

    Yifan Wang, Taejeong Bae, Jeremy Thorpe, Maxwell A. Sherman in Genome Biology (2021)

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    Resolving complex structural genomic rearrangements using a randomized approach

    Complex chromosomal rearrangements are structural genomic alterations involving multiple instances of deletions, duplications, inversions, or translocations that co-occur either on the same chromosome or repre...

    Xuefang Zhao, Sarah B. Emery, Bridget Myers, Jeffrey M. Kidd in Genome Biology (2016)