Breast Cancer
Research Data from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Update Understanding of Breast Cancer
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 11th, 2011
2011 AUG 11 -- "Estrogen receptor (ER) remains one of the most important biomarkers for breast cancer subtyping and prognosis, and comparative genome hybridization has greatly contributed to the understanding of global genetic imbalance. The authors used single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays to compare overall copy number aberrations (CNAs) as well as loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of the entire human genome in ER-positive and ER-negative breast carcinomas," researchers in Seattle, Washington report.
"DNA was extracted from frozen tumor sections of 21 breast carcinoma specimens and analyzed with a proprietary 50K XbaI SNP array. Copy number and LOH...
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