Gene regulatory mutation linked to rare childhood cancer

Posted by on May 12, 2016 6:54 pm
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A single defect in a gene that codes for a histone — a ‘spool’ that wraps idle DNA — is linked to pediatric cancers, a new study indicates. Histones derive their pattern from the same genome that they help to pack up and organize.

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