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Fuzzy Unheritance: A Novel Form Of Somatic Cell Inheritance That Regulates Cell Population Heterogeneity, Batoul Abdallah
Fuzzy Unheritance: A Novel Form Of Somatic Cell Inheritance That Regulates Cell Population Heterogeneity, Batoul Abdallah
Wayne State University Dissertations
Multi-level heterogeneity is a characteristic feature of cancer cell populations. However, how a cell population regulates and maintains its cell population heterogeneity is not well understood. Based on conventional theories of genetic inheritance, cell division is precise, where a daughter cell inherits an identical karyotype from its mother cell. Therefore, errors that are generated during cell division occur at low frequencies that take prolonged time periods to accumulate. However, the overwhelming heterogeneity found in unstable cancers is largely inconsistent with current models of genetic inheritance. In order to determine the mechanism of how heterogeneity is regulated, the pattern of inherited …