Mutational Profiling Can Establish Clonal or Independent Origin in Synchronous Bilateral Breast and Other Tumors.

Synchronous tumors can be independent primary tumors or a primary-metastatic (clonal) pair, which may have clinical implications. Mutational profiling of tumor DNA is increasingly common in the clinic. We investigated whether mutational profiling can distinguish independent from clonal tumors in bre...

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Main Authors: Lei Bao, Karen Messer, Richard Schwab, Olivier Harismendy, Minya Pu, Brian Crain, Shawn Yost, Kelly A Frazer, Brinda Rana, Farnaz Hasteh, Anne Wallace, Barbara A Parker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4640562?pdf=render