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Somatic evolution of cancer cells.
Seminars in cancer biology - 1 Dec 2005
Boland C Richard, Goel Ajay
Abstract excerpt
Cancers develop through a process called genomic instability, which generates diversity, from which clonal evolution may occur. In colorectal cancers, this process has been extensively studied, and there are three identifiable processes involved in generating diversity at the genetic or epigenetic level. Colorectal cancers may have chromosomal instability (CIN), microsatellite instability (MSI), or the CpG island...
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