Researchers uncover what drives aggressive bone cancer (IMAGE)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Researchers uncover what drives aggressive bone cancer

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A new mutation mechanism, called loss-translocation-amplification (LTA) chromothripsis, which is present in approximately 50% of high-grade osteosarcoma cases. 

 

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Karen Arnott/EMBL-EBI

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