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DNA related to the transforming gene(s) of avian sarcoma viruses is present in normal avian DNA.

VARMUS, Harold Eliot (1942 – ) Wikipedia

BISHOP, John Michael (1936 – ) Wikipedia

STEHELIN, Dominique (1943 – 2019)

VOGT, Peter K. (1932 – ) Wikipedia

Publication Details

Nature, 260, 170-73. 1976 CE.

Discovery of the first “oncogene.

In 1989 Varmus and Bishop shared the Nobel Prize for in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes."

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BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Hereditary Cancers NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ONCOLOGY & CANCER

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