Day: October 18, 2024

Understanding Copy Number Variations in Intraoperative Brain Tumor Detection

Chun-Chieh Lin from Dartmouth Health spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Boston on “Nanopore-based random genomic sampling for intraoperative diagnosis of brain tumors and beyond.” They focused on copy number and methylation alterations. Lin explained that copy number variation (CNV) is a common variant. Current approaches are karyotyping and comparative genomic hybridization, targeted with […]
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