Multiple choice

Which of the following processes is common in cancer?

  1. Loss of heterozygosity

  2. Inversion

  3. Interstitial deletions

  4. Chromosome translocation
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Explanation

In genetics, a chromosome translocation is a chromosome abnormality caused by rearrangement of parts between nonhomologous chromosomes. A gene fusion may be created when the translocation joins two otherwise separated genes, the occurrence of which is common in cancer.

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