Smoke signals in the DNA of normal lung cells

Gerd P. Pfeifer ()

Nature, 2020, vol. 578, issue 7794, 224-226

Abstract: Healthy cells in smokers’ lungs have a high burden of mutations, similar to the mutational profile of lung cancer. Surprisingly, ex-smokers’ lungs have a large fraction of healthy cells with nearly normal profiles.

Keywords: Medical research; Cancer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-020-00165-7

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