Pan-cancer surveys indicate cell cycle-related roles of primate-specific genes in tumors and embryonic cerebrum

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BACKGROUND: Despite having been extensively studied, it remains largely unclear why humans bear a particularly high risk of cancer. The antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis predicts that primate-specific genes (PSGs) tend to promote tumorigenesis, while the molecular atavism hypothesis predicts that PSGs involved in tumors may represent recently derived duplicates of unicellular genes. However, these predictions...

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