Study Featuring Genomic Sequencing & International Data Shows Random Errors in DNA Replication Play Major Role in Cancer (IMAGE)

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Study Featuring Genomic Sequencing & International Data Shows Random Errors in DNA Replication Play Major Role in Cancer

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This image depicts the mutations attributable to environmental factors (right), DNA replication (center) and heredity (left) in the UK female population. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 24, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Tomasetti at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md., and colleagues was titled, "Stem cell divisions, somatic mutations, cancer etiology, and cancer prevention."

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C. Tomasetti <i>et al,. Science</i> (2017)

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