Mayo Clinic researchers prove key cancer theory
Animal study demonstrates how whole chromosome changes cause cancer
09-Dec-2009 -
Mayo Clinic researchers have proven the longstanding theory that changes in the number of whole chromosomes - called aneuploidy - can cause cancer by eliminating tumor suppressor genes. Their findings, which appear in the current issue of the journal Cancer Cell, end a major controversy in the ...
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