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Identifying Genetic Differences Among African American And Caucasian Triple Negative Breast Cancer Genotypes, Christopher Jordan Dixon
Identifying Genetic Differences Among African American And Caucasian Triple Negative Breast Cancer Genotypes, Christopher Jordan Dixon
Theses (2016-Present)
Triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) are closely related to basal-like cancers and classified based on their molecular signatures and their progenitor cell type. TNBCs lack the presence of three common types of receptors known to fuel breast cancer growth: estrogen receptors (ER), progesterone receptors (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptors 2 (HER2neu). TNBC represent 10-20% of all molecular breast cancer subtypes. Even though genomic and transcriptome analyses show that many of the molecular signatures associated with TNBC are not related to ethnicity, clinicians and researchers find that African American (AA) TNBC women have higher mortality rates compared to Caucasian …