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Metastasis genes: A progression puzzle

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The prevailing model of tumour progression carries with it a striking conceptual inconsistency.

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  1. the Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis and Center for Biomedical Genetics, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    René Bernards

  2. the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and in the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02142, Massachusetts, USA

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Bernards, R., Weinberg, R. Metastasis genes: A progression puzzle. Nature 418, 823 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/418823a

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