Short- and long-term effects of chromosome mis-segregation and aneuploidy

Dividing cells that experience chromosome mis-segregation generate aneuploid daughter cells, which contain an incorrect number of chromosomes. Although aneuploidy interferes with the proliferation of untransformed cells, it is also, paradoxically, a hallmark of cancer, a disease defined by increased...

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Main Authors: Santaguida, Stefano, Amon, Angelika B
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117201
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1501-6190
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9837-0314