Department of Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Nat Rev Cancer. 2011 Jun;11(6):450-7. doi: 10.1038/nrc3063. Epub 2011 May 19.
Recent data on DNA sequencing of human tumours have established that cancer cells contain thousands of mutations. These data support the concept that cancer cells express a mutator phenotype. This Perspective considers the evidence supporting the mutator phenotype hypothesis, the origin and consequences of a mutator phenotype, the implications for personalized medicine and the feasibility of ablating tumours by error catastrophe.
最近关于人类肿瘤 DNA 测序的研究数据表明,癌细胞中含有数千种突变。这些数据支持癌细胞表达突变表型的概念。本观点考虑了支持突变表型假说的证据、突变表型的起源和后果、对个体化医学的影响以及通过错误灾难消融肿瘤的可行性。