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Fig. 1: Fitting neutral-evolution model to genomic data for tumors with different clonality.

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S.D. acknowledges support from NIH grant P30CA072720.

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Balaparya, A., De, S. Revisiting signatures of neutral tumor evolution in the light of complexity of cancer genomic data. Nat Genet 50, 1626–1628 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0219-4

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