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Genome mining for human cancer genes: wherefore art thou?
1Department of Molecular Medicine and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 78245, USA.
Trends in Molecular Medicine
|April 28, 2001
Abstract:
In an initial data-mining effort, the draft human genome was searched to find paralogs of known tumor suppressor genes, and for gene arrangements, which are typical of oncogenes, in cancer cells. The results were disappointing, indicating that although knowledge of the human genome will undoubtedly be of great help, other approaches to identify new oncogenes are needed.