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Heritable one-hit events defining cancer prevention?
Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) - 15 Aug 2013
Kopelovich Levy, Shea-Herbert Brittney
Abstract excerpt
Over 100 years ago (1902-1914) Theodor Boveri suggested a role for mutations in cancer. Boveri's ideas were derived from the then "just-emerging" chromosome theory of inheritance. While demonstrating chromosomal aberrations as a cause of genetic imbalance, Boveri suggested that possible causes of malignancy may include events such as aneuploidy that are now defined as gene mutations, asserting all the while that...
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