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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Chad Creighton
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-28720 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120213 10
Although ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy in women, little is known about how the cancer initiates and metastasizes. In the last decade, new evidence has challenged the dogma that the ovary is the main source of this cancer. The fallopian tube has been proposed instead as the primary origin of high-grade serous ovarian cancer, the subtype causing 70% of ovarian cancer deaths. By conditionally deleting Dicer, an essential gene for microRNA synthesis, and Pten, a key negati ...[more]