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Cell division rates decrease with age, providing a potential explanation for the age-dependent deceleration in cancer

Cristian Tomasetti1,2,3, Justin Poling4, Nicholas J Roberts2,5

  • 1Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205; bertvog@gmail.com ctomasetti@jhu.edu.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|September 25, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
agingcancercell divisionmutation rate

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