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  • Published: 23 February 2011

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In 2–3% of cancers, a single genetic event may have led to hundreds of genomic rearrangements confined to just one or a few chromosomes. This finding challenges the conventional view of how mutations accumulate in oncogenesis.

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  1. Jose M. C. Tubio and Xavier Estivill are in the Genes and Disease Programme, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Catalonia 08003, Spain.,

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Tubio, J., Estivill, X. When catastrophe strikes a cell. Nature 470, 476–477 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/470476a

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  • Published: 23 February 2011

  • Issue Date: 24 February 2011

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/470476a