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MORPHOGENESIS AND CANCER
Author(s) -
Burnet F. M.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb130460.x
Subject(s) - morphogenesis , somatic cell , cancer , biology , mutation , germline mutation , genetics , dna , disease , cancer research , medicine , pathology , gene
The thesis of this paper is that mutation in control deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is to be considered the essential source of morphological difference between species and of the majority of clinically significant somatic mutations in man, in particular of malignant disease. These two fields will be considered separately.