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deleterious passenger hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Oncology

the proposal that mildly harmful passenger mutations accumulate in tumors and slow cancer progression, opposing the effect of driver mutations.

In oncology, deleterious passenger hypothesis refers to the proposal that mildly harmful passenger mutations accumulate in tumors and slow cancer progression, opposing the effect of driver mutations. This meaning comes from McFarland (2013) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

McFarland, C. D., Korolev, K. S., Kryukov, G. V., Sunyaev, S. R., & Mirny, L. A. (2013). Impact of deleterious passenger mutations on cancer progression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(8), 2910-2915. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213968110

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