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Exploring the relationship between neutral and selective mutations in cancer.
Artificial life - 1 Jan 2000
Maley C C, Forrest S
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The transformation of normal cells into cancerous cells is an evolutionary process. Populations of precancerous cells reproduce, mutate, and compete for resources. Some of these mutations eventually lead to cancer. We calculate the probability of developing cancer under a set of simplifying assum...
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