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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Main Authors: Albert Rübben, Arturo Araujo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of Translational Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12967-017-1290-9