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Single-cell DNA sequencing of two breast-cancer types has shown extensive mutational variation in individual tumours, confirming that generation of genetic diversity may be inherent in how tumours evolve. See Article p.155

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Figure 1: Levels of diversity.

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  1. Edward J. Fox and Lawrence A. Loeb are in the Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-7750, USA.,

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