Cancer Weekly
Welcome to NewsRx!
Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of Cancer Weekly
We're a pay-per-view site for premium content. If you'd like to purchase this article, it's only $3.00.
Breast Cancer
Research Teams at J. Craig Venter Institute and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Uncover New Chromosomal Alterations in Cancer Using Transcriptome Sequencing Approach
February 10th, 2009
Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) have uncovered new genomic alterations that lead to gene fusions in a breast cancer cell line by using 454 Life Sciences sequencing technology. The work, led by Qi Zhao of JCVI and Otavia L. Caballero, of LICR, is being published the week of January 26 in the early online edition of the Journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Previous studies have shown that gene fusions are key gene alteration events in the development and progression of many kinds of cancers. The discovery of the best known gene fusion, BCR-ABL, led to the...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-02-10)
|
