Effect of dedifferentiation on time to mutation acquisition in stem cell-driven cancers.
Accumulating evidence suggests that many tumors have a hierarchical organization, with the bulk of the tumor composed of relatively differentiated short-lived progenitor cells that are maintained by a small population of undifferentiated long-lived cancer stem cells. It is unclear, however, whether...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-03-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3945168?pdf=render |