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Cancer is a genetic disease. Yet, it is rarely the result of an inherited mutation that "runs" in a family. Instead, cancer generally arises from the accumulation of mutations in cells that cause excess cell division, and aberrant cell survival.
10 articles in this unit
- Mitosis, Meiosis, and Inheritance
- Mitosis and Cell Division
- L. H. Hartwell's Yeast: A Model Organism for Studying Somatic Mutations and Cancer
- Genetic Regulation of Cancer
- Proto Oncongenes to Oncogenes to Cancer
- Tumor Suppressor (TS) Genes and the Two-Hit Hypothesis
- Chromosome Abnormalities and Cancer Cytogenetics
- Human Chromosome Translocations and Cancer
- Gleevec: The Breakthrough in Cancer Treatment
- Functions and Utility of Alu Jumping Genes
- Genes, Smoking, and Lung Cancer
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