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Recessive Mechanisms of Malignancy

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Journal Br J Cancer
Specialty Oncology
Date 1988 Aug 1
PMID 3048355
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It is increasingly recognised that recessive mutations play an important role in the pathogenesis of many forms of malignancy. Some of the affected loci may prove to be recessively-activated proto-oncogenes, but others are now known to be tumorigenic solely by virtue of their loss or inactivation and therefore form a distinct and novel family of tumour genes. Preliminary evidence suggests that such genes are likely to be functionally heterogeneous and to encode molecules involved in the inhibition of cellular proliferation and/or the induction of differentiation. Their further study is likely to illuminate fundamental mechanisms of normal cellular growth and differentiation as well as having important implications for the pathogenesis and management of cancer.

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