inherited mutations

Why Might A Person With Bloom Syndrome Have A Predisposition To Cancer?

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Why Might A Person With Bloom Syndrome Have A Predisposition To Cancer? The genetic abnormality in Bloom syndrome causes problems with DNA repair, resulting in a high number of chromosome breaks and rearrangements. The abnormal DNA repair is responsible for the increased risk for cancer. How a genetic syndrome can lead to a predisposition to

Can Mutations Be Genetically Inherited?

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Can Mutations Be Genetically Inherited? Some mutations are hereditary because they are passed down to an offspring from a parent carrying a mutation through the germ line, meaning through an egg or sperm cell carrying the mutation. There are also nonhereditary mutations that occur in cells outside of the germ line, which are called somatic