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Quantification of random genomic mutations.
Nature methods - 1 Apr 2005
Bielas Jason H, Loeb Lawrence A
Abstract excerpt
Cancer cells contain numerous clonal mutations. It has been theorized that malignant cells sustain an elevated mutation rate and, as a consequence, harbor yet larger numbers of random point mutations. Testing this hypothesis has been precluded by lack of an assay to measure random mutations-that is, mutations that occur in only one or a few cells of a population. We have established a method that has permitted us...
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