Nat Genet. 2012 May 29;44(6):614-6. doi: 10.1038/ng.2311.
We usually think of an individual's cells as sharing the same genome. Challenging this notion, two new studies show that somatic mosaicism is common and can be an early herald of cancer.
我们通常认为个体的细胞具有相同的基因组。然而,两项新的研究挑战了这一观点,表明体细胞嵌合现象很常见,并且可能是癌症的早期先兆。