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Brigham Young University

2017

Breast cancer

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Integrative Analysis To Evaluate Similarity Between Brcaness Tumors And Brca Tumors, Weston Reed Bodily Jun 2017

Integrative Analysis To Evaluate Similarity Between Brcaness Tumors And Brca Tumors, Weston Reed Bodily

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The term "BRCAness" is used to describe breast-cancer patients who lack a germline mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2, yet who are believed to express characteristics similar to patients who do have a germline mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2. Although it is hypothesized that BRCAness is related to deficiency in the homologous recombination repair (HRR) pathways, relatively little is understood about what drives BRCAness or what criteria should be used to assign patients to this category. We hypothesized that patients whose tumor carries a genomic or epigenomic aberration in BRCA1 or BRCA2 should be classified under the BRCAness category and that …


Integrative Analysis To Evaluate Similarity Between Brcaness Tumors And Brca Tumors, Weston Reed Bodily Jun 2017

Integrative Analysis To Evaluate Similarity Between Brcaness Tumors And Brca Tumors, Weston Reed Bodily

Theses and Dissertations

The term "BRCAness" is used to describe breast-cancer patients who lack a germline mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2, yet who are believed to express characteristics similar to patients who do have a germline mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2. Although it is hypothesized that BRCAness is related to deficiency in the homologous recombination repair (HRR) pathways, relatively little is understood about what drives BRCAness or what criteria should be used to assign patients to this category. We hypothesized that patients whose tumor carries a genomic or epigenomic aberration in BRCA1 or BRCA2 should be classified under the BRCAness category and that …