Cancer heterogeneity: converting a limitation into a source of biologic information
Abstract Analysis of spatial and temporal genetic heterogeneity in human cancers has revealed that somatic cancer evolution in most cancers is not a simple linear process composed of a few sequential steps of mutation acquisitions and clonal expansions. Parallel evolution has been observed in many e...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-09-01
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Series: | Journal of Translational Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12967-017-1290-9 |