Article
Is cancer cytogenetics reducible to the molecular genetics of cancer cells?
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Oct 1992
Heim S
Abstract excerpt
Whether cancer cytogenetics can be reduced to the molecular genetics of cancer cells is a question that must be addressed in three domains, focusing on its ontological, methodological, and epistemological dimensions. The possibility of ontological reduction hinges on whether chromosomes have other important constituents than molecules. Although this must obviously be answered in the negative, it should be...
Topics
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Cytogenetics
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Humans
- Karyotyping
- Molecular Biology
- Mutation
- Neoplasms
- Oncogenes