Consequences Of Aneuploidy As Cause, Not Effect, Of The Cancer Genome
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Geneticists from Harvard Medical School have now shown that aneuploidy, or the occurrence of an extra or missing number of chromosomes within a cell, actually drives tumors, rather than being a byproduct of tumor formation, giving support to the development of aneuploidy-directed cancer treatment strategies.
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