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Published on: July 25, 2020
Cancer target discovery using SAGE
1Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract:
Cancer is a genetic disease. Genetic events including mutations, chromosomal gains, losses and rearrangements, along with epigenetic alterations, lead to significant transcriptional changes in cancer cells. Changes in the expression of many genes associated with the onset and progression of cancer likely contribute to the cancerous phenotype. SAGE (Serial Analysis of Gene Expression) is an expression profiling method that allows for global, unbiased and quantitative characterisation of transcriptomes. The expression of thousands of genes can be analysed simultaneously without prior knowledge of their sequence, thus leading to the discovery of novel transcripts. In addition to characterising normal and malignant gene expression patterns, SAGE can be used to identify downstream targets of tumour suppressors and oncogenes and further annotate genomes. Comprehensive analyses of expression profiles using SAGE will yield many new diagnostic and prognostic markers as well as therapeutic targets in cancer.
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