third , it points out that the various syndromes which constitute hereditary colon cancer may well be due to a single gene : since mutations in the src gene are capable of generating a variety of distinct phenotypic alterations in infected cells , different from that generated by the wild-type virus , it certainly is conceivable that different alleles of a single transforming gene could give rise to the different types of hereditary colon cancer .
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