Scientists Sequence First Genome Of Cancer Patient
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - 21:14
in Biology & Nature
For the first time, scientists have decoded the complete DNA of a cancer patient and traced her disease -- acute myelogenous leukemia -- to its genetic roots. A large research team sequenced the genome of the patient -- a woman in her 50s who ultimately died of her disease -- and the genome of her leukemia cells, to identify genetic changes unique to her cancer.
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