Scientists first to sequence genome of cancer patient

For the first time, scientists have decoded the complete DNA of a cancer patient and traced her disease - acute myelogenous leukaemia - to its genetic roots. A large research team at the Genome Sequencing Centre and the Siteman Cancer Centre at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sequenced the genome of the patient - a woman in her 50s who ultimately died of her disease - and the genome of her leukaemia cells, to identify genetic changes unique to her cancer...

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