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The genetics of cancer risk.
Cancer journal (Sudbury, Mass.) - 1 Jan 2000
Pomerantz Mark M, Freedman Matthew L
Abstract excerpt
One hundred years ago, decades before the discovery of the structure of DNA, debate raged regarding how human traits were passed from one generation to the next. Phenotypes, including risk of disease, had long been recognized as having a familial component. Yet it was difficult to reconcile genetic segregation as described by Mendel with observations exhaustively documented by Karl Pearson and others regarding...
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