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Clonal evolution of acute myeloid leukemia highlighted by latest genome sequencing studies.
Oncotarget - 6 Sept 2016
Zhang Xuehong, Lv Dekang, Zhang Yu, Liu Quentin, Li Zhiguang
Abstract excerpt
Decades of years might be required for an initiated cell to become a fully-pledged, metastasized tumor. DNA mutations are accumulated during this process including background mutations that emerge scholastically, as well as driver mutations that selectively occur in a handful of cancer genes and confer the cell a growth advantage over its neighbors. A clone of tumor cells could be superseded by another clone that...
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