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    De novo assembly and characterization of breast cancer transcriptomes identifies large numbers of novel fusion-gene transcripts of potential functional significance

    Gene-fusion or chimeric transcripts have been implicated in the onset and progression of a variety of cancers. Massively parallel RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) of the cellular transcriptome is a promising approach ...

    Vinay K. Mittal, John F. McDonald in BMC Medical Genomics (2017)

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    Integrated sequence and expression analysis of ovarian cancer structural variants underscores the importance of gene fusion regulation

    Genomic rearrangements or structural variants (SVs) are one of the most common classes of mutations in cancer.

    Vinay K. Mittal, John F. McDonald in BMC Medical Genomics (2015)

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    Characterization and potential functional significance of human-chimpanzee large INDEL variation

    Although humans and chimpanzees have accumulated significant differences in a number of phenotypic traits since diverging from a common ancestor about six million years ago, their genomes are more than 98.5% i...

    Nalini Polavarapu, Gaurav Arora, Vinay K Mittal, John F McDonald in Mobile DNA (2011)