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The enduring COVID-19 pandemic has had persistent, intermittent socioeconomic impacts on migrants. This raises the concern that many Vietnamese migrants in Japan may have developed mental health issues due to ...
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The European Society for Medical Oncology Precision Medicine Working Group (ESMO-PMWG) published recommendations regarding confirmatory germline testing for presumed germline pathogenic variants (PGPVs) in tum...
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Open AccessInter-assay variability of next-generation sequencing-based gene panels
Tumor heterogeneity has been known to cause inter-assay discordance among next-generation sequencing (NGS) results. However, whether preclinical factors such as sample type, sample quality and analytical featu...
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Atraumatic splenic rupture in a peritoneal dialysis patient
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