Transformation effector and suppressor genes.

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Much has been learned about the molecular basis of cancer from the study of the dominantly acting viral and cellular oncogenes and their normal progenitors, the proto-oncogenes. More recent studies have resulted in the isolation and characterization of several genes prototypic of a second class of cancer genes. Whereas oncogenes act to promote the growth of cells, members of this latter class of genes act to...

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