insertional mutagenesis References Quizzes 44 Questions from Britannica’s Most Popular Health and Medicine Quizzes insertional mutagenesis pathology Ask Anything Homework Help Written by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them. The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Britannica AI Ask Anything Learn about this topic in these articles: cancer/ Retroviruses and the discovery of oncogenesThis mechanism, called insertional mutagenesis, can cause an oncogene to become overactive, or it can inactivate a tumor suppressor gene (see below tumor suppressor genes). Read MoreThis mechanism, called insertional mutagenesis, can cause an oncogene to become overactive, or it can inactivate a tumor suppressor gene (see below tumor suppressor genes). Read More