Clonal haematopoiesis: a source of biological noise in cell-free DNA analyses

Affiliations

¹ Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence London and Manchester, University College London Cancer Institute, London.
² Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence London and Manchester, University College London Cancer Institute, London; Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
³ Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK; Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: nbirkbak@clin.au.dk.

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C Abbosh et al. Ann Oncol. 2019.

. 2019 Mar 1;30(3):358-359.

doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdy552.

¹ Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence London and Manchester, University College London Cancer Institute, London.
² Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence London and Manchester, University College London Cancer Institute, London; Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
³ Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK; Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: nbirkbak@clin.au.dk.

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