Editorial: Do we need to explain the occurrence of atypical scrapie?

• Autores: Giuseppe Ruess
• Localización: Veterinary Record, ISSN-e 2042-7670, Vol. 180, Nº. 16, 2017
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • WHY do diseases occur? A recent paper by Tomasetti and colleagues (2017) tries to provide new evidence in support of their hypothesis that most cancers may be accounted for by mutations due to unpredictable, random mistakes made during normal DNA replication in the division of normal stem cells (somatic mutations) (Tomasetti and Vogelstein 2015). They suggest that other mutations that arise due to environmental or heredity factors may only play a minor role. The debate on this issue is still open while the media translated the hypothesis into the concept of ‘bad luck’.