Inferring clonal composition from multiple sections of a breast cancer.

Cancers arise from successive rounds of mutation and selection, generating clonal populations that vary in size, mutational content and drug responsiveness. Ascertaining the clonal composition of a tumor is therefore important both for prognosis and therapy. Mutation counts and frequencies resulting...

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Main Authors: Habil Zare, Junfeng Wang, Alex Hu, Kris Weber, Josh Smith, Debbie Nickerson, ChaoZhong Song, Daniela Witten, C Anthony Blau, William Stafford Noble
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4091710?pdf=render