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Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Compare and contrast how mutations in cellular proto-oncogenes and in tumor-suppressor genes can lead to cancer cells.
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