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Bradley D Preston1, Tina M Albertson, Alan J Herr.
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Cancer is fueled by mutations and driven by adaptive selection. Normal cells avoid deleterious mutations by replicating their genomes with extraordinary accuracy. Here we review the pathways governing DNA replication fidelity and discuss evidence implicating replication errors (point mutation instability or PIN) in carcinogenesis.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20951805 PMCID: PMC2993855 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2010.10.009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Semin Cancer Biol ISSN: 1044-579X Impact factor: 15.707