Chew on This: Mutation May Be Responsible for Tooth Loss, Colon Cancer
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Chew on this: mutation may be responsible for tooth loss, colon cancer.
A decade ago, scientists sometimes explained the ABCs of genetics with the simple rule that each gene has one function. Today, this nice, neat and, as some would say, naive concept appears to have fallen largely out of favor. In its place, researchers have fashioned the concept in which a gene typically has multiple functions and/or physiologic effects, sometimes in seemingly unrelated parts of...
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0027-8874,1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/96.13.987