Article
Negative clonal selection in tumor evolution.
Genetics - 1 Dec 2005
Beckman Robert A, Loeb Lawrence A
Abstract excerpt
Development of cancer requires the acquisition of multiple oncogenic mutations and selection of the malignant clone. Cancer evolves within a finite host lifetime and mechanisms of carcinogenesis that accelerate this process may be more likely to contribute to the development of clinical cancers. Mutator mutations are mutations that affect genome stability and accelerate the acquisition of oncogenic mutations....
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