“…After fi nding such rearrangements in breast and colorectal cancer (CRC) samples, further studies have used PARE to track cancer treatment response, recurrence, and metastasis in CRC patients. Targeted NGS at copy-number breakpoints (TNGS-CNB) has been used in CRC (Kim et al 2014a ). For deduction of CNBs, a novel competitive SNP (cSNP) microarray method was developed entailing CNB-region refi nement by competitor DNA.…”