Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Measuring single cell divisions in human tissues from multi-region sequencing data

  • Benjamin Werner,
  • Jack Case,
  • Marc J. Williams,
  • Ketevan Chkhaidze,
  • Daniel Temko,
  • Javier Fernández-Mateos,
  • George D. Cresswell,
  • Daniel Nichol,
  • William Cross,
  • Inmaculada Spiteri,
  • Weini Huang,
  • Ian P. M. Tomlinson,
  • Chris P. Barnes,
  • Trevor A. Graham,
  • Andrea Sottoriva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14844-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Quantifying somatic evolutionary processes in cancer and healthy tissue is a challenge. Here, the authors use single time point multi-region sampling of cancer and normal tissue, combined with evolutionary theory, to quantify in vivo mutation and cell survival rates per cell division.