Functional exploration of colorectal cancer genomes using Drosophila

The multigenic nature of human tumours presents a fundamental challenge for cancer drug discovery. Here we use Drosophila to generate 32 multigenic models of colon cancer using patient data from The Cancer Genome Atlas. These models recapitulate key features of human cancer, often as emergent proper...

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Main Authors: Bangi, Erdem, Murgia, Claudio, Teague, Alexander G.S., Sansom, Owen J., Cagan, Ross L.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5141297/