published in 2008-12-16 03:26:00
A newly published genome sequence of a breast cancer cell line reveals a heavily rearranged genetic blueprint involving breaks and fusions of genes and a broken DNA repair machinery said scientis ...
A newly published genome sequence of a breast cancer cell line reveals a heavily rearranged genetic blueprint involving breaks and fusions of genes and a broken DNA repair machinery said scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the journal Genome Research "It's like a computer program that has become buggy and transcends into something dangerous" said Dr. Aleksandar Milosavljevic associate professor in the BCM Human Genome Sequencing Center. "It makes the cell escape normal controls on cell proliferation. Experimentally some of the rearrangements in the genome that we found produce fusion genes that confer uncontrolled cell growth and prevent tumor cells from dying allowing them to grow outside their normal tissue environment. These are all essential attributes of cancer"........ 
