Personalised genome sequencing reveals coding error in gene for inherited pancreatic cancer
Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 14:28
in Biology & Nature
Scientists at the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Centre at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Centre have used 'personalised genome' sequencing on an individual with a hereditary form of pancreatic cancer to locate a mutation in a gene called PALB2 that is responsible for initiating the disease. The discovery marks their first use of a genome scanning system to uncover suspect mutations in normal inherited genes...
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