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How did you like the title of the article?
"Cancer caused by new kind of Gene" ??
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Mike Golden <goldenmike@sbcgloba
From: Mike Golden <goldenmike@sbcgloba
Subject: Re[2]: [cancercured] Cancer Caused by New Kind of Gene
To: "Bret Peirce" <cancercured@
Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 7:15 PM
Hello Bret,
The BRCA genes are not genes for breast cancer. The naming of these
is a bit misleading. They are genes that are related to checkpoints
in the cell cycle. These checkpoints work similar to computer program
checksums. They look at growth and maturation events in the cell
cycle and search for errors. If no errors are detected they allow
the cell to proceed to the next step in growth and replication. With
the damage to the checkpoints they eventually start overlooking
errors in the cell. Eventually they can allow an altered, now
malignant, cell to replicate.
It's not the cancer that is inherited. It is the potential for
faulty quality control.
Mike
Friday, July 17, 2009, 8:32:52 PM, you wrote:
BP> Gene research, when you read it, jumps over so many cause and
BP> affect relationships to arrive at a conclusion that bad genes
BP> cause cancer, "it's a cancer gene."
BP>
BP> Yet, almost always there are people with the exact same genetic
BP> "mutation" who never do get cancer. Ok, so cancer can't be a
BP> genetic defect. But, wait, what if it were like some kind of
BP> recessive trait that skips generations. If it were recessive it
BP> would numerically bear this out mathematically in family trees. We
BP> could have proven it without million dollar gene research, we
BP> could have proved it just by the math of genetics.
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