Dark-matter matters: Discriminating subtle blood cancers using the darkest DNA.

The confluence of deep sequencing and powerful machine learning is providing an unprecedented peek at the darkest of the dark genomic matter, the non-coding genomic regions lacking any functional annotation. While deep sequencing uncovers rare tumor variants, the heterogeneity of the disease confoun...

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Main Authors: Laxmi Parida, Claudia Haferlach, Kahn Rhrissorrakrai, Filippo Utro, Chaya Levovitz, Wolfgang Kern, Niroshan Nadarajah, Sven Twardziok, Stephan Hutter, Manja Meggendorfer, Wencke Walter, Constance Baer, Torsten Haferlach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007332