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Determining The Role Of Noncoding Insertion And Deletion Mutations In Lung Cancer, Zachary Everton, Matthew H. Bailey
Determining The Role Of Noncoding Insertion And Deletion Mutations In Lung Cancer, Zachary Everton, Matthew H. Bailey
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Background
● Cancer is a disease in which cells grow and divide at an uncontrolled rate and cause damage to surrounding tissue and is caused by mutations in the cells’ DNA.
● Though some cancer-causing mutations are inherited from parents, most cancer-causing mutations emerge over the course of a person’s life and are localized to the tumor. These localized mutations are also known as somatic mutations.
● The human genome is over 6.27 billion base pairs long and cannot be read from end to end; instead it is read in small pieces that are aligned to best-matching sequences in the …