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The roles of telomerase in the generation of polyploidy during neoplastic cell growth.
Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Feb 2013
Christodoulidou Agni, Raftopoulou Christina, Chiourea Maria, Papaioannou George K, Hoshiyama Hirotoshi, Wright Woodring E, Shay Jerry W, Gagos Sarantis
Abstract excerpt
Polyploidy contributes to extensive intratumor genomic heterogeneity that characterizes advanced malignancies and is thought to limit the efficiency of current cancer therapies. It has been shown that telomere deprotection in p53-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblasts leads to high rates of polyploidization. We now show that tumor genome evolution through whole-genome duplication occurs in ∼15% of the karyotyped...
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