Phylogenetic trees starting with an individual cancer cell (IMAGE)

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Phylogenetic trees starting with an individual cancer cell

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Each color represents a different location in the body. A very colorful tree shows a highly metastatic phenotype, where a cell's descendents jumped many times between different tissues. A tree that is primarily one color represents a less metastatic cell.

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Jeffrey Quinn/Whitehead Institute

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