What is Somatic Mutation?
A DNA change acquired in body cells during life, not inherited from parents. Common language in tumor genomics.
acquired · not from parents
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They classified the change as a somatic mutation after comparing tumor and matched normal DNA.
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Partway through one copy picks up a changed letter and every copy after it carries it; the original does not.
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