From latent disseminated cells to overt metastasis: genetic analysis of systemic breast cancer progression.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on June 13, 2003

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Oleg Schmidt-Kittler1, Thomas Ragg, Angela Daskalakis, Martin Granzow, Andre Ahr, Thomas J F Blankenstein, Manfred Kaufmann, Joachim Diebold, Hans Arnholdt, Peter Muller, Joachim Bischoff, Detlev Harich, Gunter Schlimok, Gert Riethmuller, Roland Eils, Christoph A Klein

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1: Institut für Immunologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80336 München, Germany.

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