The aneuploidy paradox: costs and benefits of an incorrect karyotype

Aneuploidy has a paradoxical effect on cell proliferation. In all normal cells analyzed to date, aneuploidy has been found to decrease the rate of cell proliferation. Yet, aneuploidy is also a hallmark of cancer, a disease of enhanced proliferative capacity, and aneuploid cells are frequently recove...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sheltzer, Jason Meyer, Amon, Angelika B.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116116
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1381-1323
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9837-0314