Elephants rarely get cancer because they have 20X the number of p53 genes than we have
This article from JAMA argues that the 4.8% cancer mortality rate for large and long-lived elephants compares favorably to our 25% rate because unlike our two copies of the p53 (watchman of the genome) gene, they have up to 40 copies.
Edward
10/15/2015
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