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Mechanisms of oncogenic cooperation in cancer initiation and metastasis.
The Yale journal of biology and medicine - 1 Dec 2006
Pedraza-Fariña Laura G
Abstract excerpt
Cancer is a disease of extreme heterogeneity. Microarray analysis has identified thousands of genes that are transcriptionally up- or down-regulated in tumor samples; molecularly characterized lesions that play a causative role in tumorigenesis constitute more than 1 percent of the human genome. Such a large number of "cancer genes" stirs the debate of whether it is relevant to continue classifying cancer as a...
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