Word: varmus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first oncogene known to exist inside animal and human cells was discovered in 1976 by Drs. J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus of the University of California at San Francisco. Since then, scientists have found more than 50, some of which appear to be more important than others in human cancers. Mutations in the RAS oncogene, for instance, are believed to play a role in a majority of pancreatic and colon cancers, and some lung cancers as well. Mutations in other oncogenes have been linked to leukemia and the most lethal forms of breast and ovarian cancer...