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Pan-cancer analysis of the extent and consequences of intratumor heterogeneity.
Nature medicine - 1 Jan 2016
Andor Noemi, Graham Trevor A, Jansen Marnix, Xia Li C, Aktipis C Athena, Petritsch Claudia, Ji Hanlee P, Maley Carlo C
Abstract excerpt
Intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) drives neoplastic progression and therapeutic resistance. We used the bioinformatics tools 'expanding ploidy and allele frequency on nested subpopulations' (EXPANDS) and PyClone to detect clones that are present at a ≥10% frequency in 1,165 exome sequences from tumors in The Cancer Genome Atlas. 86% of tumors across 12 cancer types had at least two clones. ITH in the morphology of...
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