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Cancer and Transcriptional Control

Transcription Factors

Transcription Factors

Transcription factors, especially some that are proto-oncogenes or tumor suppressors, help regulate the cell cycle; however, when regulation gives rise to cancer cells, then transcriptional control of gene expression is affected.

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