Evolution, Instability Of Cancer Shown By Breast Cancer Genome

A newly published genome sequence of a breast cancer cell line reveals a heavily rearranged genetic blueprint involving breaks and fusions of genes and a broken DNA repair machinery, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the journal Genome Research. “It’s like a computer program that has become buggy and transcends into something dangerous,” said Dr.

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Filed under: Breast Cancer on December 19th, 2008