Singling Out Chromosome Gains in Tumor Evolution

Publication date: 13 February 2017
Source:Cancer Cell, Volume 31, Issue 2
Author(s): Ryan M. Naylor, Jan M. van Deursen
In this issue of Cancer Cell, Sheltzer et al. shed new light on Theodor Boveri's century-old hypothesis by demonstrating that aneuploidy characterized by single-chromosome gains acts to suppress tumorigenesis and that aneuploidy itself is a nidus for genomic instability.

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In this issue of Cancer Cell, Sheltzer et al. shed new light on Theodor Boveri's century-old hypothesis by demonstrating that aneuploidy characterized by single-chromosome gains acts to suppress tumorigenesis and that aneuploidy itself is a nidus for genomic instability.


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