Oncogenes: piRNA flies in

Nature Reviews Cancer 16, 551 (2016). doi:10.1038/nrc.2016.95 Author: Anna Dart It is recognized that in a number of different soma-derived human cancers, expression of genes typically restricted to germ cells can become reactivated, and amongst these are components of the PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway. This phenomenon of germline gene re-expression has also been shown to
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