Evolutionary dynamics of tumor suppressor gene inactivation
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Evolutionary dynamics of tumor suppressor gene inactivation.
Tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) are important gatekeepers that protect against somatic evolution of cancer. Losing both alleles of a TSG in a single cell represents a step toward cancer. We study how the kinetics of TSG inactivation depends on the population size of cells and the mutation rates for the first and second hit. We calculate the probability as function of time that at least one cell h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0400747101