two-hit model

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two-hit model [′tü ‚hit ¦mäd·əl]

(genetics)

The hypothesis that a cancer arises in an individual heterozygous for a mutant gene for a dominantly inherited form of cancer only if an additional mutation occurs in a somatic cell; for example, in the normal allele at the same locus, as in human retinoblastoma.

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