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The Cancer Genome Atlas (Tcga): Breast And Ovarian Cancers, Laura Ann Riccio May 2015

The Cancer Genome Atlas (Tcga): Breast And Ovarian Cancers, Laura Ann Riccio

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The field of genomics originated in the 1970’s starting with the sequencing of small organisms’ genomes such as the bacterium, Haemophilus influenzae, and the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A genome is the complete ordered sequence of DNA bases (A, C, G, and T) comprising all of the protein- and RNA-coding genes, as well as all of the regulatory sequences necessary for the construction of an organism. Over time, scientists sequenced the genomes of larger and more complex organisms, eventually leading to the sequencing of the human genome. The Human Genome Project (HGP) was initiated in 1990 and took over ten …