Oncogene Synonyms

ŏnkə-jēn, ŏng-
A gene that disposes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. transforming gene

Words Related to Oncogene

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. proto-oncogene
  2. oncogenic
  3. immediate-early
  4. c-myc
  5. c-src
  6. nfkb
  7. NF-kappaB
  8. Bcl-2
  9. FGFR3
  10. over-expression
  11. erbb-2
  12. anti-apoptotic
  13. cbf1
  14. wt1
  15. overexpression

Oncogene Sentence Examples

  • The helper virus envelope glycoprotein affects the disease specificity of a recombinant murine leukemia virus carrying a v- myc oncogene.

  • Oncogene inactivation uses the same techniques employed for dominantly inherited monogenic diseases.

  • A change in the DNA causes a special gene called an oncogene to be switched on.

  • No single activated oncogene can be detected in a transformation assay.

  • Investigation showed the retroviral vector used to load a gene into bone marrow cells had inadvertently carried its DNA into a known oncogene.

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