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SUBMITTER: Gorunova L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8901076 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gorunova Ludmila L Boye Kjetil K Panagopoulos Ioannis I Berner Jeanne-Marie JM Bjerkehagen Bodil B Hompland Ivar I Lobmaier Ingvild I Hølmebakk Toto T Hveem Tarjei S TS Heim Sverre S Micci Francesca F
Oncotarget 20220307
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is a mesenchymal neoplasm with variable behavior. An increased understanding of the tumor pathogenesis may improve clinical decision-making. Our aim was to obtain more data about the overall chromosome aberrations and intratumor cytogenetic heterogeneity in GIST. We analyzed 306 GIST samples from 291 patients using G-banding, direct sequencing, and statistics. Clonal chromosome aberrations were found in 81% of samples, with 34% of 226 primary tumors demonstr ...[more]