Explore Oncogenes through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Oncogenes meaning
plural of oncogene
Using Oncogenes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of oncogene
- In the example corpus, oncogenes often appears in combinations such as: of oncogenes, oncogenes and.
Context around Oncogenes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oncogenes
- In this selection, "oncogenes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, proto, activated, somatic, normally, seem and disrupting stand out and add context to how "oncogenes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include activated oncogenes can cause and activated proto oncogenes found in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oncogenes" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oncogenes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Many cancer drugs target the proteins encoded by oncogenes. (9 words)
Duesberg disputes the importance of oncogenes and retroviruses in cancer. (10 words)
Since the 1970s, dozens of oncogenes have been identified in human cancer. (12 words)
In 1976 Drs. Dominique Stehelin, J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus of the University of California, San Francisco demonstrated that oncogenes were activated proto-oncogenes, found in many organisms including humans. (32 words)
They then crossed their mice with others that expressed the oncogenes H-Ras or Her2 in their breast tissue, and hence they developed very aggressive breast tumours. (27 words)
Proto-oncogenes normally participate in the regulation of cell proliferation and have the capacity to be upregulated therefore gain the potential for causing cancer. (24 words)
Example sentences (12)
Cancer can be triggered by proto-oncogenes that were mistakenly incorporated into proviral DNA or by the disruption of cellular proto-oncogenes.
In 1976 Drs. Dominique Stehelin, J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus of the University of California, San Francisco demonstrated that oncogenes were activated proto-oncogenes, found in many organisms including humans.
Proto-oncogenes normally participate in the regulation of cell proliferation and have the capacity to be upregulated therefore gain the potential for causing cancer.
They then crossed their mice with others that expressed the oncogenes H-Ras or Her2 in their breast tissue, and hence they developed very aggressive breast tumours.
Activated oncogenes can cause those cells designated for apoptosis to survive and proliferate instead.
Duesberg disputes the importance of oncogenes and retroviruses in cancer.
Duesberg received acclaim early in his career for research on oncogenes and cancer.
Forty-five percent of human somatic oncogenes seem to be regulated by bidirectional promoters - significantly more than non-cancer causing genes.
Many cancer drugs target the proteins encoded by oncogenes.
Nontransforming viruses can randomly insert their DNA into proto-oncogenes, disrupting the expression of proteins that regulate the cell cycle.
Other rapidly degraded proteins include the protein products of proto-oncogenes, which play central roles in the regulation of cell growth.
Since the 1970s, dozens of oncogenes have been identified in human cancer.
Common combinations with oncogenes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of oncogenes 2×
- oncogenes and 2×