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Another candidate for a factor that may be changing with age is susceptibility to viral infections, especially influenza, which may predispose to pneumococcal colonization [25] or disease [26,27].
We propose that the loss or reduction of BRCA1 may predispose a cell population to neoplastic transformation by altering the balance between cell death and proliferation/survival, rendering it more sensitive to secondary genetic changes.
RSV infection in infancy cause severe bronchiolitis and pneumonia and may predispose children to the subsequent development of asthma, the most common chronic illness of childhood [ 1 ] . Many studies have indicated that chemokines can play an important role in the onset and severity of asthma and it has been shown that RSV infection of lung epithelial cells increases chemokine production, although the mechanisms involved are largely unknown [ 2 3 4 5 ] .
Of course, it is possible that more complex patterns of gene regulation in eukaryotes [ 60 ] might predispose them to synergistic effects between mutations.
The MATs are predicated upon the coordinated activities of the spindle checkpoint [ 16 17 ] , the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) or cyclosome [ 18 19 ] , the proteasome [ 20 21 ] , and the cohesion-complex proteins involved with chromosome cohesion and separation [ 22 23 24 ] . Alterations in the temporal sequence of these coordinated activities may potentially predispose cells to faulty chromosome segregation.