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ArticleOncotarget2019

Gestational tumors as a model to probe reticulate evolution in human neoplasia.

Yuri Lazebnik

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Article in Oncotarget, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Yuri LazebnikLerna Consulting, New Haven, CT, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reticulate evolution, which involves the transfer of genes and other inheritable information between organisms, is of interest to a cancer researcher if only because "pirating" a trait can help a cell and its progeny adapt, survive, or take over much faster than by accumulating random mutations. However, despite being observed repeatedly in experimental models of neoplasia, reticulate evolution is assumed to be negligible in human cancer primarily because detecting gene transfer between the cells of the same genetic background can be difficult or impossible. This commentary suggests that gestational tumors, which are genetically distinct from the women who carry them, provide an opportunity to test whether reticulate evolution affects the development of human neoplasia.

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cancercell fusiongestational tumorshorizontal gene transferreticulate evolution

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PMID30719223
PMCPMC6349447

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