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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Liang Goh
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-30311 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Huang Ruby Yunju RY Chen Geng Bo GB Matsumura Noriomi N Lai Hung-Cheng HC Mori Seiichi S Li Jingjing J Wong Meng Kang MK Konishi Ikuo I Thiery Jean-Paul JP Goh Liang L
BMC medical genomics 20121018
<h4>Background</h4>Epithelial ovarian cancer is characterized by multiple genomic alterations; most are passenger alterations which do not confer tumor growth. Like many cancers, it is a heterogeneous disease and can be broadly categorized into 4 main histotypes of clear cell, endometrioid, mucinous, and serous. To date, histotype-specific copy number alterations have been difficult to elucidate. The difficulty lies in having sufficient sample size in each histotype for statistical analyses.<h4> ...[more]