Tumour-specific Causal Inference Discovers Distinct Disease Mechanisms Underlying Cancer Subtypes

Abstract Cancer is a disease mainly caused by somatic genome alterations (SGAs) that perturb cellular signalling systems. Furthermore, the combination of pathway aberrations in a tumour defines its disease mechanism, and distinct disease mechanisms underlie the inter-tumour heterogeneity in terms of...

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Main Authors: Yifan Xue, Gregory Cooper, Chunhui Cai, Songjian Lu, Baoli Hu, Xiaojun Ma, Xinghua Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-09-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48318-7

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