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Hall mark of cancer is genomic instability, in form of mutations or chromosomal aberrations. Genomic instability is failure to maintain genome stable, which was maintained by using proper replication and repair,any imbalance in this can lead to instability.

There are many error prone DNA polymerases which are error prone which were evolved to keep cell alive by continuing DNA replication when extensive DNA damage happened.

Many cancers have differential expression of various DNA polymerases

Example:

Up regulation of DNA polymerase theta in Breast cancer

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