Access

News and Views

Nature 399, 203-204 (20 May 1999) | doi:10.1038/20309

Cancer:  Many vessels, faulty gene

William G. Kaelin, Jr1

Hereditary cancer syndromes can teach us much about the molecular circuits that are central to the life of a cancer cell. The genes responsible for these syndromes often encode proteins that act at critical points in the pathways controlling fundamental processes such as cell division, differentiation and death.