Role and Mechanism of Structural Variation in Progression of Breast Cancer

Abstract

Cancer is a disease of the genome. Tumor cells progressively accumulate genomic mutations during the progression of the disease. Some of these are causative mutations that could be responsible for tumorigenesis and metastasis whereas others just reflect the increased genomic instability in tumor cells. Identifying such driver mutations and the mechanisms by which they evolve remains one of the most important questions in cancer biology. In this study we plan to utilize next generation sequencing paired with computational methods to investigate various aspects of breast cancer progression.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA591252

Entities

People

  • Ankit Malhotra

Organizations

  • University of Virginia

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Breast Cancer
  • Cancer
  • Carcinoma
  • Cells
  • Computational Science
  • Data Mining
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Genetic Phenomena
  • Genetics
  • Genomic Instability
  • Information Science
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Neoplasms
  • Stem Cells

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Oncology (Cancer Research).