Whole-exome sequencing of skin cancer completed: Most comprehensive view of melanoma's genetic landscape
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 15:31
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have made the first systematic survey of the landscape of the melanoma genome, the DNA code of the deadliest form of skin cancer. The researchers have made surprising new discoveries using whole-exome sequencing, an approach that decodes the 1-2 percent of the genome that contains protein-coding genes.