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Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life?
2022-12-13
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Chimerism is a widespread phenomenon across the tree of life. It is defined as a multicellular organism composed of cells from other genetically distinct entities. This ability to ‘tolerate’ non-self cells may be linked to susceptibility to diseases like cancer. Here we test whether chimerism is associated with cancers across obligately multicellular organisms in the tree of life. We cl...
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- 5c7efef8-cde1-5de1-b584-3458a18b07df
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2370277/v1