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Breast Cancer
New findings from M.A. Bollet and co-authors describe advances in breast cancer
March 20th, 2008
According to a study from Paris, France, " To distinguish new primary breast cancers from true recurrences, pangenomic analyses of DNA copy number alterations (CNAs) using sing le-nucleotide polymorphism arrays have proven useful. The pangenomic profiles of 22 pairs of primary breast carcinoma (ductal or lobular) and ipsilateral breast cancers from the same patients were analyzed." "Hierarchical clustering was performed using CNAs and DNA breakpoint information. A partial identity score developed using DNA breakpoint information was used to quantify partial identities between two tumors. The nature of ipsilateral breast cancers (true recurrence vs new primary tumor) as...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-20)
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