A simple method for assigning genomic grade to individual breast tumours

BMC Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wennmalm, Kristian ^a   Bergh, Jonas ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast Neoplasms; Female; Histology; Microarray Analysis; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; BREAST TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURVIVAL;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOMICS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 79960565177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-306     Document Type: Article

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