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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Main Authors: Alexandra Jilkine, Ryan N Gutenkunst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3945168?pdf=render

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