People with Li-Fraumeni syndrome often develop cancer as children or young adults, and the germline mutation is associated with a high lifetime risk of cancers, such as breast cancer, bone cancer, ...
Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington's disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the ...
Once a mapping population is available, the present method allows a single investigator to identify a causative mutation in only 8 working days of hands-on time. Furthermore, de novo marker ...
Koch and colleagues report that epigenetic clocks mirror age predictions based on the accumulation of somatic mutations and show that somatic mutations at CpG sites coincide with extensive ...
Nearly half of patients with advanced ovarian cancer treated with first-line poly-ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors experienced recurrence in this real-world study, emphasizing the need for ...
New research shows how cancer develops in children who are predisposed to Wilms' tumor. This could help to predict the development of tumors before ...
In addition to this, we also assessed the prognostic values of these alterations, and specifically in the HER2-positive breast cancer brain metastasis, we observed that the presence of PIK3CA ...