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What Selection Pressure Does to Mutations Favoring Cancer? Highlights of A Simulation Approach

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  • Bignon Yves Jean

    (Laboratoire d’Oncologie Moléculaire, France)

  • Kwiatkowski Fabrice
  • Serlet Laurent

    (Laboratoire de Mathématique- probabilités et statistiques appliquées, France)

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Research in oncogenetics has focused for years on mutations increasing independently the risk of cancer (ex. BRCA mutations for breast/ovarian cancers)...

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  • Bignon Yves Jean & Kwiatkowski Fabrice & Serlet Laurent, 2018. "What Selection Pressure Does to Mutations Favoring Cancer? Highlights of A Simulation Approach," Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, Biomedical Research Network+, LLC, vol. 10(4), pages 7987-7995, November.
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    DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.10.001989
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