Rare germline copy number variants in colorectal cancer predisposition characterized by exome sequencing analysis

Affiliations

• ¹ Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute, CIBER of Hepatic and Digestive Diseases, University of Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain.
• ² Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Health Research Institute of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid 28040, Spain.
• ³ Department of Pathology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain.
• ⁴ Bioinformatics Platform, CIBER of Hepatic and Digestive Diseases, Barcelona 08036, Spain.
• ⁵ National Center of Genomic Analysis, Science Park of Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain.
• ⁶ Andalusian Developmental Biology Institute, CSIC-Pablo de Olavide University-Andalusian Regional Government, Sevilla 41013, Spain.
• ⁷ Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Donostia-Biodonostia Institute, CIBER of Hepatic and Digestive Diseases, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastián 20080, Spain.
• ⁸ Galician Public Foundation of Genomic Medicine (FPGMX), CIBER of Rare Diseases, Genomics Medicine Group, Hospital Clínico Universitario, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela 15706, Spain.
• ⁹ Gastroenterology Department, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Ourense, Ourense Biomedical Research Institute, Ourense 32005, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute, CIBER of Hepatic and Digestive Diseases, University of Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain. Electronic address: sbel@clinic.cat.