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. 2019 Jul;35(7):475-477.
doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2019.05.002. Epub 2019 May 28.

Beneficial Noncancerous Mutations in Liver Disease

Miryam Müller  1 , Stuart J Forbes  2 , Thomas G Bird  3
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Beneficial Noncancerous Mutations in Liver Disease

Miryam Müller et al. Trends Genet. 2019 Jul.

Abstract

Chronic liver disease results in fibrosis and cancer. While injury is associated with mutational burden, a recent study (Zhu et al. Cell 2019;177:608-621) highlights that not all positively selected mutations in the liver are precancerous. Indeed, some may be beneficial to the ability of the liver to not only withstand injury , but also to regenerate.

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