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Possible etiological factors of congenital malformations as well as of human trisomies are considered in the framework of the repressor hypothesis. In this approach gene expression is envisaged from the point of view of the functional variations of the total activation energy for normal gene expression in homeostatic equilibrium. We restrict our attention to variations of the total activation energy under the effect of temperature gradients. We discuss the evidence that hyperthermia may be an etiological factor for trisomies in humans.
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Chela-Flores, J., Espejo Acuiña, C. On the possible effects of homeostatic shifts in human embryonic development. Acta Biotheor 38, 135–142 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00047550
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