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Title: In what way can loss of heterozygosity lead to cancer?
Post by: colleen on Sep 21, 2013
In what way can loss of heterozygosity lead to cancer?


Title: Re: In what way can loss of heterozygosity lead to cancer?
Post by: duddy on Sep 22, 2013
Loss of heterozygosity occurs when a cancer-producing gene that exists in the heterozygous state becomes exposed through deletion, mutation, recombination, uniparental disomy, or chromosomal aberration. Such a gene now is either homozygous or hemizygous


Title: Re: In what way can loss of heterozygosity lead to cancer?
Post by: colleen on Sep 23, 2013
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