Cancer follows chromosome missegregation when all endogenous repair mechanisms fail.

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Almost all solid tumors consist of aneuploid cells with highly abnormal chromosome numbers. Such cancer cells could very well originate from chromosome missegregation which is a disturbingly common phenomenon, happening in 0.01 to 4 percent of cell divisions. Missegregated cells are aneuploid, typically lacking a chromosome or having one in surplus. Missegregated cells have mutation in the gene dose of the...

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