Nature Genetics 38, 402 - 403 (2006)
doi:10.1038/ng0406-402
Clonal diversity in tumor progressionDarryl Shibata
Darryl Shibata is at the Department of Pathology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA. dshibata@usc.edu
A new study uses an evolutionary approach to characterize the diversity within populations of cells in Barrett's esophagus lesions. Greater genetic clonal diversity is found to be associated with higher risks for transformation.
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