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To: JOAT
You think there is a PLAN to mutate p53? That there is a specific mechanism whereby p53 mutates that is somehow different than other mechanisms of mutation?

Mutation happens in any and all locations within the genome.

If a cancer cell has a mutation in p53 that renders it inoperable, the cancer cell has a MUCH greater chance of survival.

This is not a difficult concept.

It is like me pointing out that a full house hand is more likely to win a poker pot than two pairs, and you ask WHY someone got dealt a full house. Because sometimes when dealt card in poker, you draw a full house; other times you draw two pairs.

Sometimes a cancer has a mutation in p53 and sometimes it does not. Those that do have mutated p53 are more likely to survive, resulting in about 50% of detected cancers having a mutation in p53.

Once again, NOT a difficult concept.

And again. Oncogenes are genes associated with cancer. Cancer is unregulated cellular replication. The genes that regulate cellular replication are often Oncogenes; because a mutation of these genes that control cellular replication leads to unregulated cellular replication.

Also, NOT a difficult concept.

44 posted on 06/11/2009 10:36:03 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: allmendream
You think there is a PLAN to mutate p53?

That's a pretty weird logic jump there, based on what I've posted.

What is NOT difficult to understand is that you're a poseur, trying to sound authoritative about cancer on a light-hearted thread about some goofy junk science. While I'm underwhelmed that you can assimilate some article you've found and regurgitate it here like you wrote it, you have yet to address the question, but that's okay, I know you can't.

How about we just agree that Human Intelligence does not, in fact, cause cancer?

If you can agree to that, we'll call our discussion concluded.

45 posted on 06/11/2009 12:02:49 PM PDT by JOAT
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