The Translational Genomics Research Institute
Gene linked to increasingly common type of blood cancer
Published in Blood Weekly, August 6th, 2009
Investigators at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) found that mutations in a gene called C6orf15, or STG, are associated with the risk of developing follicular lymphoma. This is a cancer of the body's disease-fighting network whose rates have nearly doubled in the past three decades.
In the first genome-wide association study of...
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