Cancer cells exhibit a mutator phenotype.

doi:10.1016/s0065-230x(08)60699-5

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Cancer cells exhibit a mutator phenotype.

Advances in cancer research - 1 Jan 1998

Loeb L A

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This review analyzes the concept and evidence in support of a mutator phenotype in human cancer. The large number of mutations reported in tumor cells cannot be accounted for by the low mutation rates observed in normal somatic cells; rather, it must be a manifestation of a mutator phenotype pres...

Topics

Animals
Cell Cycle
DNA Damage
DNA Repair
DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase
Humans
Microsatellite Repeats
Mutation
Neoplasms
Phenotype

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