Unraveling The DNA Of Cancer Cells

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Round the outer ring are shown the 23 chromosomes of the human genome. The lines in blue, in the third ring, show internal rearrangements, in which a stretch of DNA has been moved from one site to another within the same chromosome. The red lines, in the bull's eye, designate switches of DNA from one chromosome to another.

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Wow! Are we lookly at mostly random rearrangements, or does all this flipping proceed according to a program?