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ArticleClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2019

Wake Up and Smell the Fusions: Single-Modality Molecular Testing Misses Drivers.

Kurtis D Davies, Dara L Aisner

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Article in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kurtis D DaviesDepartment of Pathology, University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado. kurtis.davies@ucdenver.edu.
Dara L AisnerDepartment of Pathology, University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multitarget assays have become common in clinical molecular diagnostic laboratories. However, all assays, no matter how well designed, have inherent gaps due to technical and biological limitations. In some clinical cases, testing by multiple methodologies is needed to address these gaps and ensure the most accurate molecular diagnoses.

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Molecular Diagnostic Techniques

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