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Phrases with «tumor suppressor»

A "tumor suppressor" is a type of gene that helps prevent the development of cancer. These genes protect our cells from growing and dividing too much or too quickly, which could lead to the formation of tumors. They act as brakes on cell growth and repair damaged DNA, keeping our cells healthy and preventing them from becoming cancerous. Full definition

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Sentences with «tumor suppressor»

  • These two histones thus have a key role of epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes in breast cancer (and likely other cancers), suggesting that they may represent new therapeutic targets. (massgenomics.org)
  • Her graduate work culminated in multiple publications in the field of cancer epigenetics and in a thesis entitled «Aberrant epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes in human cancer: the roles of DNA hypermethylation and the histone code.» (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • «HOXA5 protein acts as tumor suppressor in breast cancer, lab cell study shows.» (sciencedaily.com)
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