TRACKING OF DISTINCTIVE CELLULAR EVENTS AND USES OF SUCH EVENTS AS BIOLOGICAL MARKERS

摘要

The invention relates to the field of medicine. More particularly, describedherein are biologicalmarkers associated with phenotypical and/or genotypical alterations in a celland to methods forassessing mammalian cells. Also described are methods for assessing thecondition of a populationof cells, methods for assessing carcinogenicity of compounds and methods forquantitativelydetermine the quality of cell populations.