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A normal DNA repair process can become a major source of mutations in cancer

August 4, 2020

Researchers from IRB Barcelona’s Genome Data Science Lab, led by the ICREA researcher Fran Supek, have discovered a new type of hypermutation called mutation fog, which can generate hundreds of mutations in every cell. Such mutations are widely distributed, but accumulate in the most important regions of the genome, where genes reside (the so-called euchromatin). The fact that these mutations are spread around explains why they have remained undetected until now.

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