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Science

Volumn 347, Issue 6223, 2015, Pages 729-731

  Tomasetti, Cristian ^a,b   Vogelstein, Bert ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; TUMOR GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; GENETICS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL;

CELL DIVISION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84925282990     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa6592     Document Type: Letter

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