Outing the outliers: Strategy matches oncogene with subtype of prostate cancer
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 15:49
in Health & Medicine
A new study reveals a previously unidentified candidate oncogene that appears to play a significant role in a subset of prostate cancers. The research, published by Cell Press in the June issue of the journal Cancer Cell, describes a new strategy that can be used to find "outlier" genes in cancer subtypes that are not well understood.