The study is actually the first to report an example of a childhood cancer caused by mutations in a cancer-causing gene.

这项研究实际上是第一个报道一例因基因突变引起的儿童癌症。

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Using gene-mapping techniques, the researchers identified a small stretch of DNA on chromosome 2, where the disease-causing gene was thought to reside.

研究人员运用基因制图技术鉴定了2号染色体上的一小段DNA，而通常认为致病基因就存在于该染色体。

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In this study, the researchers were looking at a population with high rates of disease-causing gene mutations to investigate genetic causes of deafness.

在这份研究中，研究人员研究带有大量致病基因突变的人，来调查失聪的原因。

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The researchers found that he and three members of his family had two disease-causing mutations in one gene.

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It was a gene that was causing a cell to be malignant and to divide without control, for example.

例如,一个会使细胞恶化,并不受控制地无限分裂的基因

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What if this is a gene that's causing a cell to be cancerous?

但假如是个能导致细胞癌变的基因呢

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One notorious example came when just about every major drug company in the mid-1990s rushed to develop drugs to block a cancer-causing gene called ras.

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If at least one of the newly selected tumours also had a mutated version of one of the genes in question, that gene was reckoned a good candidate as a tumour-causing gene.

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Two developed the disease because IL2RG inserted itself into the cellular genome next to a known cancer-causing gene and activated it, but the cause of the third cancer case had not been found.

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