Spatially constrained tumour growth affects the patterns of clonal selection and neutral drift in cancer genomic data.

Quantification of the effect of spatial tumour sampling on the patterns of mutations detected in next-generation sequencing data is largely lacking. Here we use a spatial stochastic cellular automaton model of tumour growth that accounts for somatic mutations, selection, drift and spatial constraint...

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Main Authors: Ketevan Chkhaidze, Timon Heide, Benjamin Werner, Marc J Williams, Weini Huang, Giulio Caravagna, Trevor A Graham, Andrea Sottoriva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007243