Extrachromosal DNA Found to Play a Critical Role in Cancer

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Human cells have twenty-three pairs of chromosomes but in cancer, genes can be amplified in chromosomes or in circular extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA), whose frequency and functional significance are not understood.

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