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A study conducted at Dartmouth turns up two significant pathogenic pathways that provide new understanding of the mechanisms by which a chromosome, previously identified as a lead susceptibility agent, contributes to development of lung cancer.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of preventable cancer death. A disease of complex origin, lung cancer is usually considered to result from effects of smoking and from multiple genetic variants. One of these genetic components, a chromosome named 15q25....