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Where does the leukemia gene come from?
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Most gene: Changes in leukemia are acquired. That is to say present only in the cancerous blood cells. The majority of the time we do not know where they "came from".
Answered 2/17/2016
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No one gene: There is no one gene that can cause leukemia. Sometimes though genetic alterations (loss or gain of a chromosome fragment) can lead to leukemia. Those are not most of the time acquired and not inherited.
Answered 2/17/2016
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