Measuring single cell divisions in human tissues from multi-region sequencing data.
Benjamin Werner,
Jack Case,
Marc J Williams,
Ketevan Chkhaidze,
Daniel Temko,
Javier Fernández-Mateos,
George D Cresswell,
Daniel Nichol,
William Cross,
Inmaculada Spiteri,
Weini Huang,
Ian PM Tomlinson,
Chris P Barnes,
Trevor A Graham,
Andrea Sottoriva
Feb 24, 2021
Both normal tissue development and cancer growth are driven by a branching process of cell division and mutation accumulation that leads to intra-tissue genetic heterogeneity. However, quantifying somatic evolution in humans...