Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Translocations in certain types of cancers - do they arise somatically? How (somatic cells - no meiosis)?

I know translocations occur as errors in chromosomal pairing before crossing over. So why would this occur during the person's life time in somatic cells? Cancers such as CML and MDS - when do the ociated translocations arise?

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