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Multistep renal carcinogenesis as gene expression disease in tumor suppressor TSC2 gene mutant model--genotype, phenotype and environment.
Mutation research - 2 Jun 2001
Hino O, Majima S, Kobayashi T, Honda S, Momose S, Kikuchi Y, Mitani H
Abstract excerpt
Cancer is an inheritable disorder of somatic cells. Environment and heredity both operate in the origins of human cancer. These environmental and genetic determinants of cancer can be classified into four groups designated "Oncodemes" [1]. Oncodeme 1 is the irreducible "background" level of cancer due to spontaneous mutagenesis. Oncodeme 2 is "environmentally induced" cancer, whose causative agents are chemical...
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