PMID: 8937739Apr 1, 1996Paper

Hypothesis on a casual link between EMF and an evolutionary class of cancer and spontaneous abortion

Cancer Biochemistry Biophysics
W Grant Cooper

Abstract

A biophysical theory is presented that supports a causal link between EMF exposures and the different biological endpoints of cancer and spontaneous abortion. The model for time-dependent instability of DNA specificity [Biochem. Genet. 32, 383 (1994)] is assumed to have been operational since DNA became selected as the molecular structure for the genome. Species were consequently required to adapt mechanisms to protect haploid gene pools from the continuous time-dependent accumulation of evolutionary base substitutions. To this end, conserved genetic domains containing mutation-intolerance thresholds are a result of natural selection operating on time-dependent base substitutions. "P53-type" genes are examples of such conserved domains with point mutation thresholds. When the oocyte is fertilized, conserved domains express wild type keto-amino genetic information. During subsequent development and growth, time-dependent evolution events populate G-C sites with enol-imine stationary states that can be transcribed and/or replicated to express transversion and transition mutations. As the level of evolution events would approach the intolerance threshold in the haploid genome, point mutation sensitive genes from conserved diploid ...Continue Reading

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