Origins and characterization of variants shared between databases of somatic and germline human mutations

Abstract Background Mutations arise in the human genome in two major settings: the germline and the soma. These settings involve different inheritance patterns, time scales, chromatin structures, and environmental exposures, all of which impact the resulting distribution of substitutions. Nonetheles...

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Main Authors: William Meyerson, John Leisman, Fabio C. P. Navarro, Mark Gerstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-020-3508-8