Phylogenetic trees of cancer cells (IMAGE)

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Phylogenetic trees of cancer cells

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Phylogenetic trees show the evolution of cancer cells in a tumor into different subpopulations, marked in red and blue. The colors around the rings represent the different cell states, or categories of cell characteristics, into which cells evolved.

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Courtesy of Dian Yang

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