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Published on: September 20, 2019
[Correlations of centrosome abnormality and genomic instability to tumor]
1Breast Cancer Pathology Department & Research Laboratory, Cancer Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Genomic instability, including whole chromosome loss or gain, ploidy change, and a variety of chromosome aberration, is a characteristic of tumor cells. Centrosome abnormality is also found in several kinds of tumors. Abnormal centrosome can cause multipolar spindle formation, chromosome mis-segregation, and unequal distribution, and finally leads to cancers. Therefore, abnormal centrosome is common in tumor cells, and centrosome amplification is probably an early event in the origination and development of cancer.
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