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Tumour suppressor mechanisms in the control of chromosome stability: insights from BRCA2.
Molecules and cells - 1 Feb 2014
Venkitaraman Ashok R
Abstract excerpt
Cancer is unique amongst human diseases in that its cellular manifestations arise and evolve through the acquisition of somatic alterations in the genome. In particular, instability in the number and structure of chromosomes is a near-universal feature of the genomic alterations associated with epithelial cancers, and is triggered by the inactivation of tumour suppressor mechanisms that preserve chromosome...
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