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Specific Chromosome Anomaly associated with Autonomous and Cancerous Development in Man

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SEVERAL studies1–4 have now shown that chromosome variation in cancer cells is non-random, and that during cancer progression at least natural selection favours certain chromosome types while others are eliminated. Similar patterns of non-random representations of chromosome types have also been reported in established cell lines5–8.

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  1. Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Paterson Laboratories, Manchester, M20 9BX

    S. MULDAL, R. ELEJALDE & P. W. HARVEY

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MULDAL, S., ELEJALDE, R. & HARVEY, P. Specific Chromosome Anomaly associated with Autonomous and Cancerous Development in Man. Nature 229, 48–49 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229048a0

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