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New Data Suggest Extreme Genetic Diversity of Tumors May Impart Drug Resistance

Nov 10, 2015
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers from the University of Chicago and the Beijing Institute of Genomics have undertaken one of the most extensive analyses of the genome of a single tumor and found far greater genetic diversity than anticipated. Such variation, they said, may enable even small tumors to resist treatment.

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