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Nicola D. Roberts

Researcher at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Publications -  26
Citations -  7047

Nicola D. Roberts is an academic researcher from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome & Biology. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 17 publications receiving 4816 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicola D. Roberts include University of Cambridge & South Australia Pathology.

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Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

Peter J. Campbell, +1332 more
- 06 Feb 2020 - 
TL;DR: The flagship paper of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium describes the generation of the integrative analyses of 2,658 whole-cancer genomes and their matching normal tissues across 38 tumour types, the structures for international data sharing and standardized analyses, and the main scientific findings from across the consortium studies.

The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

Klaudia Walter, +241 more
TL;DR: The contribution of rare and low-frequency variants to human traits is largely unexplored as mentioned in this paper, but the contribution of these variants to the human traits has not yet been fully explored.
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Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes identifies driver rearrangements promoted by LINE-1 retrotransposition.

Bernardo Rodriguez-Martin, +71 more
- 05 Feb 2020 - 
TL;DR: Long interspersed nuclear element (LINE-1; L1 hereafter) insertions emerged as the first most frequent type of somatic structural variation in esophageal adenocarcinoma, and the second most frequent in head-and-neck and colorectal cancers.