The genetic analysis of cancer.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2796.1998.00343.x

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The genetic analysis of cancer.

Journal of internal medicine - 1 Jun 1998

Pearson P L, Van der Luijt R B

Abstract excerpt

During the past two decades an overwhelming amount of knowledge has been acquired on the molecular genetics of human cancer. It is now evident that cancer is essentially a genetic disease, arising from inherited and/or somatically acquired mutations at different genetic loci, and that tumourigene...

Topics

DNA, Neoplasm
Genes, Tumor Suppressor
Humans
Mutation
Neoplasms
Proto-Oncogenes

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