Proliferation genes and Tumour formation?

Question

What term is used for a proliferation gene that promotes tumour formation?

Is it an oncogene?

Please help, thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

Oncogenes promote cell division.

Tumor-suppressor genes limit cell division, often by regulating oncogenes.

When oncogenes are over expressed, expressed at the wrong time, or in the wrong tissue, cancer can be a result.

Answer 2

Genes involved in normal cell division and proliferation are referred to as proto-oncogenes. However, if one or more of these genes become mutated in such fashion that they cause cancer, they are then referred to as Ocongenes.

See: Molecular Cell Biology

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcg...