TRACERx: How whole-genome doubling helps cancer survive

TRACERx: How whole-genome doubling helps cancer survive
Dr Nicholas McGranahan, joint lead for the TRACERx team at UCL, explains the survival advantage to cancer of doubling its genome: If one copy of the genome has a lethal mutation, the cell could continue to survive and divide, thanks to its second copy - a genetic 'spare tyre.' Read more on the CRUK blog: https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2020/03/05/evolution-sex-and-tracerx-how-cancers-spare-tyre-helps-it-survive/ Research paper: Interplay between whole-genome doubling and the accumulation of deleterious alterations in cancer evolution. Nature Genetics
Wendy Russell
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5/21/2020
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Cancer Institute, cancer mutation, cancer evolution, TRACERx, oncology, Cancer Research, cruk, Francis Crick, Nicholas McGranahan, Genomics, Nature Genetics
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