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Systems Biology of Metabolic Regulation by Estrogen Receptor Signaling in Breast Cancer
Published on: March 17, 2016
Amping up estrogen receptors in breast cancer
Amy M Fowler1, Elaine T Alarid
1Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Breast Cancer Research : BCR
|August 21, 2007
Abstract:
This article highlights a recent study by Holst et al. in Nature Genetics that finds estrogen receptor-alpha (ER-alpha) amplification in early benign lesions and more advanced invasive carcinomas of the breast, and discusses the potential implications to our present understanding of the role of ER-alpha in breast tumorigenesis.
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