Physiology

A woman who is heterozygous for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), a polymorphic enzyme transcribed from the X chromosome, develops chronic myeloid leukemia. Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) studies on the tumor cells for G6PD reveal that only a single form of the enzyme is transcribed. This finding suppos which of the following features of neoplasia?