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Revealing the inherent heterogeneity of human malignancies by variant consensus strategies coupled with cancer clonal analysis.
BMC bioinformatics - 1 Jan 2014
Peterson Erich A, Chavan Shweta S, Bauer Michael A, Heuck Christoph J, Johann Donald J
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Tumors are heterogeneous in composition. They are composed of cancer cells proper, along with stromal elements that collectively form a microenvironment, all of which are necessary to nurture the malignant process. In addition, many of the stromal cells are modified to support the unique needs of the malignant state. Tumors are composed of a variety of clones or subpopulations of cancer cells, which may differ in...
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