Do such aberrant genes accelerate the development of certain age-related disorders, particularly heart disease and cancer?

The commercial effects will be obvious, as so much biotechnology, including the rush to patent genes, has assumed the old view that "fixing" an aberrant gene would cure a specific human ailment.

The aberrant gene turns up in a wide variety of tumors, and, when it is inherited within a family, it can cause melanoma, the deadly skin cancer.

Buddy finds a way out when Sherman withdraws the aberrant gene that created his slim but ravenous Id; the extracted gene looks like irradiated Windex.

Dr. Gross and others watched with dismay as babies continued to be born to couples who had no idea that they carried aberrant genes.

They have shown that with a standard test they can pick out a few aberrant genes indicative of cancer from among a large number of mostly normal cells.

They began by looking at bladder cancer, they said, because it is so easy to get a urine sample and search it for the aberrant genes of cancer cells.

Scientists who studied five large families in Jerusalem reported today that cases of manic-depressive illness were linked to an aberrant gene on the X chromosome.

It's some aberrant gene, I suppose.

SCIENTISTS have determined the complete three-dimensional structure of the product of an important human oncogene, an aberrant gene believed to play a role in causing cancer.