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A
gene that contributes to the production of a cancer. Oncogenes are
generally mutated forms of normal cellular genes (proto-oncogenes).
A gene capable, when activated, of transforming a cell. Oncogenes
are found in the oncogenically activated state in retroviruses and
transformed cells and in their normal non-oncogenically activated
state in non-transformed cells in which they are called proto-oncogenes.
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