"gene" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Scientists believe the suppressor gene can be inactivated by tobacco, viruses, pollution or diet.
- More recently, scientists have discovered a class of "anti-oncogenes," or suppressor genes that appear to protect against cancer.
- In 1992 oncomice with tumor suppressor genes knocked out were generated.
- This suppressor gene is also called elongin binding protein and G7 protein.
- The most well known of these tumor suppressor genes, known as p53, has been related to a panoply of common cancers.
- A mutation to only one tumor suppressor gene would not cause cancer either, due to the presence of many "backup" genes that duplicate its functions.
- Several research groups have suggested that other, "suppressor" genes may limit the expression of frame-pattern white spotting.
- And once these suppressor genes are perturbed, growth rates can explode into cancer.
- In theory, an oncogene turns cells malignant only if the suppressor gene has been damaged.
- Damage to the suppressor gene can be environmental or hereditary.
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