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Socializing with MYC: cell competition in development and as a model for premalignant cancer.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Apr 2014
Johnston Laura A
Abstract excerpt
Studies in Drosophila and mammals have made it clear that genetic mutations that arise in somatic tissues are rapidly recognized and eliminated, suggesting that cellular fitness is tightly monitored. During development, damaged, mutant, or otherwise unfit cells are prevented from contributing to the tissue and are instructed to die, whereas healthy cells benefit and populate the animal. This cell selection...
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