Incapacitating the evolutionary capacitor: Hsp90 modulation of disease.

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The nature-nurture argument surrounding the mechanisms of disease causation cannot be resolved, as the roles of genes and environment are inextricably entwined. Environmental fluctuation is clearly a major modifier of phenotype, as well as a promoter of evolutionary change. Both types of variability can be mediated by the stress response pathway, with the Hsp90 chaperone family as key components. Hsp90 has been...

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