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Abstract
A general characteristic of tumour cells is their unstable karyotype. It is suggested here that maintenance of the normal diploid cell depends on the presence of two copies of specific genes; a change in gene dosage of one or more of these genes, by chromosome nondisjunction or rearrangement, may trigger a general loss of accuracy in chromosome segregation at mitosis.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2646794 DOI: 10.1016/0168-9525(89)90020-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Genet ISSN: 0168-9525 Impact factor: 11.639