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Studies that have provided the first unbiased, large-scale analyses of DNA mutations across an array of cancers also have lessons for the proposal to annotate the entire cancer genome.

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  1. Daniel A. Haber and Jeff Settleman are at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Building 149–7, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA. haber@helix.mgh.harvard.edu,

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