Open AccessDecoding the evolution of a breast cancer genome
Author(s) -
Bedard Philippe L.,
Sotiriou Christos
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
embo molecular medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.923
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1757-4684
pISSN - 1757-4676
DOI - 10.1002/emmm.200900054
Subject(s) - breast cancer , genome , computational biology , biology , cancer research , cancer , genetics , medicine , gene
Shah et al have recently reported the first successful sequencing of the entire genome of a solid tumour (Shah et al, 2009). Philippe Bedard and Christos Sotiriou analyse their findings as well as the challenges of applying the study of cancer genomes to clinical cancer care.