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RAS oncogene

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oncogene pathology

  • cancer-causing retroviruses
    In oncogene

    , MYC and RAS). The origin or location of the gene is indicated by the prefix of “v-” for virus or “c-” for cell or chromosome; additional prefixes, suffixes, and superscripts provide further delineation. More than 70 human oncogenes have been identified. Breast cancer has been linked to…

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  • precancerous growth in a human colon
    In cancer: Proto-oncogenes and the cell cycle

    …can be seen in the ras family of oncogenes. The ras oncogene has a single defect in its nucleotide sequence, and, as a result, there is a change of a single amino acid in the protein for which it encodes. The ras protein is important in the signal transduction pathway;…

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