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Aging-Induced Stem Cell Mutations as Drivers for Disease and Cancer.
Cell stem cell - 4 Jun 2015
Adams Peter D, Jasper Heinrich, Rudolph K Lenhard
Abstract excerpt
Aging is characterized by a decrease in genome integrity, impaired organ maintenance, and an increased risk of cancer, which coincide with clonal dominance of expanded mutant stem and progenitor cell populations in aging tissues, such as the intestinal epithelium, the hematopoietic system, and the male germline. Here we discuss possible explanations for age-associated increases in the initiation and/or...
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