Handbook of Statistical Genetics (Baldin
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Balding, D. J.; Bishop, M.; Cannings, C.
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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Cancers result from an accumulation of inherited and somatic mutations yielding cells that have acquired the necessary characteristics for unregulated growth. The development of the tumour can be viewed as an evolutionary process, involving several classes of genes in tumour initiation and progressi