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Selectively advantageous mutations and hitchhikers in neoplasms: p16 lesions are selected in Barrett's esophagus.
Cancer research - 15 May 2004
Maley Carlo C, Galipeau Patricia C, Li Xiaohong, Sanchez Carissa A, Paulson Thomas G, Reid Brian J
Abstract excerpt
Neoplastic progression is an evolutionary process characterized by genomic instability and waves of clonal expansions carrying genetic and epigenetic lesions to fixation (100% of the cell population). However, an evolutionarily neutral lesion may also reach fixation if it spreads as a hitchhiker on a selective sweep. We sought to distinguish advantageous lesions from hitchhikers in the premalignant condition...
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