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

Nature, 260, 170-73. 1976.

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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