suppressor genes meaning

[Medicine]
Genes that have a suppressor allele or suppressor mutation (SUPPRESSION,GENETIC) which cancels the effect of a previous mutation,enabling the wild-type phenotype to be maintained or partially restored.

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1. the gene, called rassf1a, is a tumor-suppressor gene
2. preliminary study on transformation of tumor suppressor gene p53 into tomato
3. tumor suppressor gene
4. expression of metastasis suppressor gene nm23-h1 in colorectal carcinoma and its relationship with clinical pathological parameters
5. the result indcated this method had a pototial to monitor the expression of ther suppressor gene at sing1e cell level