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Age-related somatic mutations in the cancer genome.
Oncotarget - 22 Sept 2015
Milholland Brandon, Auton Adam, Suh Yousin, Vijg Jan
Abstract excerpt
Aging is associated with an increased risk of cancer, possibly in part because of an age-related increase in mutations in normal tissues. Due to their extremely low abundance, somatic mutations in normal tissues frequently escape detection. Tumors, as clonal expansions of single cells, can provide information about the somatic mutations present in these cells prior to tumorigenesis. Here, we used data from The...
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