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Abstract
Cancer phylogenetic trees describe the evolutionary relationship between primary tumors and metastatic sites. A study now shows that mutations in guanine homopolymer microsatellites represent accurate molecular clocks, revealing the number of cell divisions that have occurred during cancer development and progression.
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