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Somatic selection of poorly differentiating variant stem cell clones could be a key to human ageing

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Any replicating system in which heritable variants with differing replicative potentials can arise is subject to a Darwinian evolutionary process. The continually replicating adult tissue stem cells that control the integrity of many tissues of long-lived, multicellular, complex vertebrate organisms, including humans, constitute such a replicating system. Our suggestion is that somatic selection for mutations (or stable epigenetic changes) that cause an increased rate of adult tissue stem cel...

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10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110153

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Oncology
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-6244-9792
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Sub department:
Human Genetics Wt Centre
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Publisher:
Elsevier Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of Theoretical Biology Journal website
Volume:
489
Article number:
110153
Publication date:
2020-01-11
Acceptance date:
2020-01-04
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EISSN:
1095-8541
ISSN:
0022-5193
Pmid:
31935413
Language:
English
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1085274
Local pid:
pubs:1085274
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2021-01-22

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