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Nature Medicine 14, 590 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0608-590b

International effort seeks to identify mutations that drive cancer

Charlie Schmidt1

  1. Portland, Maine

If cancer cells are like cars, then it makes sense to know who's at the wheel. That's the view behind a new effort to reveal the 'driver' mutations that trigger cancer and the 'passenger' mutations that enhance tumor growth rates, asserts John McPherson, director of cancer genomics at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, in Toronto.

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