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and 31 cases underwent exome
sequencing, followed by extensive
analysis for somatic alterations and
their association with aromatase
inhibitor response. Case selection for
discovery was based on the levels of
the tumor proliferation marker Ki67
in the surgical specimen, because
high cellular proliferation despite
aromatase inhibitor treatment identifies poor prognosis tumors exhibiting
estrogen-independent growth.
The authors identified diseaselinked mutations that specifically
correlated with tumor-cell histology,
proliferation rates, and response to
treatment. Such information, Nature
commented, could potentially be used
to determine which patients will benefit from aromatase-inhibitor therapy.
But authors concluded that the
accrual of large numbers of patients
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and the use of comprehensive
sequencing and gene expression
approaches will be required because
of the extreme genomic heterogeneity documented by this investigation
And as they commented in the
2011 article, "The scale of the battlefield is expanding rapidly as cancer
genomes are documented at a single
nucleotide level. In the next several
years, many entire breast cancer
genomes will be published, revealing
for the first time the enormous scale
of the disruption of the human
genome associated with the development of this disease."
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