Publication Date:
2007-09-18
Description:
Sjoblom et al. (Research Article, 13 October 2006, p. 268) reported nearly 200 novel cancer genes said to have a 90% probability of being involved in colon or breast cancer. However, their analysis raises two statistical concerns. When these concerns are addressed, few genes with significantly elevated mutation rates remain. Although the biological methodology in Sjoblom et al. is sound, more samples are needed to achieve sufficient power.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Getz, Gad -- Hofling, Holger -- Mesirov, Jill P -- Golub, Todd R -- Meyerson, Matthew -- Tibshirani, Robert -- Lander, Eric S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Sep 14;317(5844):1500.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. gadgetz@broad.mit.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17872428" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Breast Neoplasms/*genetics
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Colorectal Neoplasms/*genetics
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*Consensus Sequence
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Female
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*Genes, Neoplasm
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Genome, Human
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Humans
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Male
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*Mutation
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Probability
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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