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Research at the interface between chemistry and the -omic sciences and systems biology.
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Mol. BioSyst., 2007, 3, 466 - 472, DOI: 10.1039/b618163e
Transcriptomic signatures in breast cancer
Jianjiang Fu and Stefanie S. Jeffrey
High throughput DNA microarray technology has been broadly applied to the study of breast cancer to classify molecular subtypes, to predict outcome, survival, response to treatment, and for the identification of novel therapeutic targets. Although results are promising, this technology will not have a full impact on routine clinical practice until there is further standardization of techniques and optimal clinical trial design. Due to substantial disease heterogeneity and the number of genes being analyzed, collaborative, multi-institutional studies are required to accrue enough patients for sufficient statistical power. Newer bioinformatic approaches are being developed to assist with the analysis of this important data.
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