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Early mutation bursts in colorectal tumors.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Zhao Junsong, Salomon Matthew P, Shibata Darryl, Curtis Christina, Siegmund Kimberly, Marjoram Paul
Abstract excerpt
Tumor growth is an evolutionary process involving accumulation of mutations, copy number alterations, and cancer stem cell (CSC) division and differentiation. As direct observation of this process is impossible, inference regarding when mutations occur and how stem cells divide is difficult. However, this ancestral information is encoded within the tumor itself, in the form of intratumoral heterogeneity of the...
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