[Tumor suppressors--genes and proteins].

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Cancer is generally understood to be a genetic disease in the sense that somatic mutations are the cause of tumour initiation and development. Our knowledge of cancer-associated genes and gene products has evolved mainly over the past 20 years. The identification and characterization of tumour suppressor genes (TSGs) as normal growth-inhibiting or apoptosis-inducing genes have helped us to understand how...

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