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Difficulty in discovering gene fusions. One possibility is that a critical function of oncogenes in epithelial cancers is to alter genomic structure and it has been suggested that such changes could lead to cancer progression. However, if such a model were true, it would give a reason for the genomic heterogeneity observed in epithelial cancers that has allowed recurrent gene fusions to go unnoticed in solid tumors.
