Does Having An Extra Chomosome Promote Cancer? (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Does Having An Extra Chomosome Promote Cancer?

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Surprising experimental results indicating that having one extra chromosome actually impedes cancer rather than promotes it led a team of researchers to reconsider the relation between incorrect chromosome number and oncogenesis.

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