Biological and molecular heterogeneity of breast cancers correlates with their cancer stem cell content.

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Published in Cell on January 08, 2010

Authors

Salvatore Pece1, Daniela Tosoni, Stefano Confalonieri, Giovanni Mazzarol, Manuela Vecchi, Simona Ronzoni, Loris Bernard, Giuseppe Viale, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Pier Paolo Di Fiore

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1: IFOM, Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Via Adamello 16, 20139 Milan, Italy. salvatore.pece@ifom-ieo-campus.it

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