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Table 4 Effect of differing selective advantages on the rate of clonal evolution.

From: Population genetics of cancer cell clones: possible implications of cancer stem cells

Selective advantage of clone A over clone a

Number of generations needed for the relative proportion of clone A to change from 1% to 99%

0.01

924

0.05

188

0.10

96

0.50

23

0.75

16

1.00

13

2.00

8

5.00

5