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Khabre desk
Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the somatic mutations desk.
health
A medRxiv preprint reports different somatic mutation patterns in blood and arterial samples from patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery. Only four identical variants were found in both tissues among 221 matched pairs.
science
A bioRxiv preprint presents LongPhase-TO, a long-read method for reconstructing somatic haplotypes from tumour samples without matched normal DNA. In tests on eight datasets from six cancer cell lines, the method lengthened haplotype blocks and improved somatic variant-calling scores.