Tumour heterogeneity and cancer cell plasticity

2013/09/17 by Corbin E. Meacham, Sean J. Morrison · 2,502 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Biology #Cancer #Cancer Cells and Metastasis #Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics #Cancer cell #Cancer research #Cancer stem cell #Computational biology #Disease #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetic heterogeneity #Genetics #Lineage (genetic) #Medicine #Microtubule and mitosis dynamics #Pathology #Phenotype #Phenotypic plasticity #Somatic evolution in cancer #Stem cell #Tumour heterogeneity

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/nature12624

published in Nature 501(7467), 328-337 (Nature Portfolio)

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