Evaluating cancer etiology and risk with a mathematical model of tumor evolution
Modelling how endogenous mutations accumulate in tissues is valuable to understand how cancers develop and evolve. Here, the authors establish a mathematical model that can predict the number of endogenous somatic mutations in the lifetime of tissues and approximate the time to cancer development.
| Published in: | Nature Communications |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2022-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34760-1 |