Risk factors and random chances

Dominik Wodarz () and Ann G. Zauber ()
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Dominik Wodarz: University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
Ann G. Zauber: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA.

Nature, 2015, vol. 517, issue 7536, 563-564

Abstract: The discovery that the estimated number of stem-cell divisions in a tissue correlates with cancer incidence suggests that the varying probability of developing cancer in different tissues is mostly down to random mutations.

Date: 2015
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