Sapling Learning macmillan learning Cancer is a genetic disorder. How does cance

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Sapling Learning macmillan learning Cancer is a genetic disorder. How does cancer differ from most other genetic disorders? Mutations in proteins involved in signal transduction pathways cause cancer, but do not cause other genetic disorders. All cancers are the result of epigenetic changes, whereas most other genetic disorders are the result of changes in the DNA sequence Most genetic disorders involve genes that rarely mutate. Most cancers are the result of mutations in rapidly mutating genes, which explains why cancer is so common. Cancer is always caused by one or more mutations in mitochondrial DNA, whereas most other genetic disorders result from genes in nuclear DNA. Most genetic disorders are inherited through germ cells from parents. Most cancers are, to some extent, the result of mutations in somatic cells that occur during an organism's lifetime. O

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