Philadelphia Chromosome

 

Philadelphia is the birthplace of the United States, where the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776 at Independence Hall 

 

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                                                             Philadelphia Chromosome  

Discovered in 1960 by Peter Nowell and David Hungerford at the University of Pennsylvania and the Fox Chase Cancer Center,

 The Philadelphia Chromosome is historically monumental as the first consistent genetic abnormality linked to a specific human cancer, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). 

 

 

 

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