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65 YEARS OF THE DOUBLE HELIX: The advancements of gene editing and potential application to hereditary cancer.
Endocrine-related cancer - 1 Aug 2018
Tan Zi Ying, Huang Taosheng, Ngeow Joanne
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes are associated with germline mutations that lead to increased vulnerability for an individual to develop cancers. Such germline mutations in tumour suppressor genes, oncogenes and genes encoding for proteins essential in DNA repair pathways and cell cycle control can cause overall chromosomal instability in the genome and increase risk in developing cancers. Gene...
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