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Multiple mutant clones in blood rarely coexist.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics - 1 Feb 2008
Dingli David, Pacheco Jorge M, Traulsen Arne
Abstract excerpt
Leukemias arise due to mutations in the genome of hematopoietic (blood) cells. Hematopoiesis has a multicompartment architecture, with cells exhibiting different rates of replication and differentiation. At the root of this process, one finds a small number of stem cells, and hence the description of the mutation-selection dynamics of blood cells calls for a stochastic approach. We use stochastic dynamics to...
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