Viruses can also cause genetic mutations when they integrate themselves into human DNA.

病毒整合进人类DNA时也会导致基因突变。

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Its ultraviolet rays damage the skin's DNA and can cause genetic mutations that lead to skin cancer, according to the skin cancer Foundation.

根据美国皮肤癌基金会的说法，紫外线会破坏皮肤上的DNA，从而引起能够引发皮肤癌的基因变异。

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Mutations are the ultimate cause of all the genetic differences, including the differences between a human and a banana, between a starfish and a toadstool.

突变是所有基因差异的最终原因,包括人类和香蕉，海星和伞菌之间差异。

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Eventually, predicts Professor Sikora, people could even be implanted with a "gene chip" which could detect the earliest signs of the genetic mutations that cause cancer.

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The technique found genetic mutations known to cause intellectual disability in 16 patients, and genes of unknown function that appear to be the cause in another 22 patients.

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In subsequent studies, she unravelled how genetic mutations in this protein cause a rare inherited condition, known as neonatal diabetes, in which patients develop diabetes soon after birth.

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