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Phenotypic heterogeneity in modeling cancer evolution.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Mahdipour-Shirayeh Ali, Kaveh Kamran, Kohandel Mohammad, Sivaloganathan Sivabal
Abstract excerpt
The unwelcome evolution of malignancy during cancer progression emerges through a selection process in a complex heterogeneous population structure. In the present work, we investigate evolutionary dynamics in a phenotypically heterogeneous population of stem cells (SCs) and their associated progenitors. The fate of a malignant mutation is determined not only by overall stem cell and non-stem cell growth rates...
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