Gene fusion

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Gene fusion is a common event in cancer and a re-occuring theme in molecular pathology. It is hybrid of two coding or regulatory DNA sequences.

General

Caused by genomic rearrangements such as:

translocation.
deletion.
duplication.
inversion.

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