Answer to Question #64977 in Molecular Biology for Sanjukta Ghosh

Question #64977
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Why are mutant tumour-suppressoor genes and oncogenes generally recessive and dominant respectively?
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Expert's answer
2017-02-05T11:08:08-0500
This fact can be easily explained from the functions of these genes. Tumour-suppressing genes “watch” cellular proliferation, differentiation, genome integrity etc. So, they have to be active constantly. Every cell that is becoming tumour must inactivate main tumour-suppressor genes. And mutations that lead to inactivation are generally recessive.
In contrary, cellular oncogenes (proto-oncogenes) are silent in the absence of the pattern of both internal and external stimuli. This means that cancerogenesis requires overexpression of proto-oncogenes. And activating mutations are generally dominant.

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