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Gene Regulatory Mutation Linked to Rare Childhood Cancer

Posted on May 13, 2016

A single defect in a gene that codes for a histone — a “spool” that wraps idle DNA — is linked to pediatric cancers in a study published today in the journal Science.

URL: https://news.wisc.edu/gene-regulatory-mutation-linked-to-rare-childhood-cancer/

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