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#Question id: 1502


The textbook states that cells of patients with adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) “contain a deletion of a small portion of chromosome #5, which was subsequently identified as the site of a tumor-suppressor gene called APC.” In which cells of these patients would you expect to find this chromosomal deletion?

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling
  1. all cells

  2. cells of the polyps of the colon epithelium

  3. germ cells

  4. cancer cells