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Identification of candidate genes for devil facial tumour disease tumourigenesis.
Scientific reports - 18 Aug 2017
Taylor Robyn L, Zhang Yiru, Schöning Jennifer P, Deakin Janine E
Abstract excerpt
Devil facial tumour (DFT) disease, a transmissible cancer where the infectious agent is the tumour itself, has caused a dramatic decrease in Tasmanian devil numbers in the wild. The purpose of this study was to take a candidate gene/pathway approach to identify potentially perturbed genes or pathways in DFT. A fusion of chromosome 1 and X is posited as the initial event leading to the development of DFT, with the...
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