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Cancer Etiology: Variation in Cancer Risk among Tissues is Poorly Explained by the Number of Gene Mutations

2017-08-30

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Recent evidence indicates that the risk of being diagnosed with cancer in a tissue is strongly correlated (0.80) with the number of stem cell divisions accumulated by the tissue. Since cell division can generate random mutations during DNA replication, this correlation has been used to propose that cancer is largely caused by the accumulation of unavoidable mutations in driver genes. However, no correlation betwee...

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Literature Corpus work: 414c7993-a6ed-5a0c-be9e-e2f063a0fadd
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201708.0103.v1

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