Article
Molecular profiling of invasive breast cancer by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification-based copy number analysis of tumor suppressor and oncogenes.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 Jul 2010
Moelans Cathy B, de Weger Roel A, Monsuur Hanneke N, Vijzelaar Raymon, van Diest Paul J
Abstract excerpt
Several oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes have been shown to be implicated in the development, progression and response to therapy of invasive breast cancer. The phenotypic uniqueness (and thus the heterogeneity of clinical behavior) among patients' tumors may be traceable to the underlying variation in gene copy number of these genes. To obtain a more complete view of gene copy number changes and their...
Topics
- Breast Neoplasms
- Female
- Gene Dosage
- Gene Expression
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization
- Oncogenes
- Phenotype
- Receptor, ErbB-2
- Receptors, Estrogen
