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Explain why sporadic cancers better fit Knudson's Two hit hypothesis than familial cancers.

Explain why sporadic cancers better fit Knudson's Two hit hypothesis than familial cancers.

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Knudson Two hit hypothesis tells about the mutations in the tumor suppressor genes which leads to cancer, at the cellular level mutations in the tumor suppressor genes are recessive but in the families having cancers due to mutations in the tumor suppressor genes, the inheritance shows dominant inheritance. In Familial cancers, the parents the individuals in the family can carry the gene which is responsible for the Cancer, so if the individual who is carriers of the mutation requires only one hit in another gene to become cancerous.

Whereas in sporadic cancers there is no family history of the disease, that is individuals are not carriers of the mutation, cells in them require hit in both alleles to become cancerous, so sporadic cancers better fit Knudson's Two hit hypothesis than familial cancers.

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