Sentences with phrase «found genetic drivers»

Although they found genetic drivers in the metastases that originated in the primary tumors, the researchers also found genetic variation between metastases in different organs coming from the same patient.

First Major Gene Mutation for Hereditary Prostate Cancer Found After a 20 - year quest to find a genetic driver for prostate cancer that strikes men at younger ages and runs in families, researchers have identified a rare, inherited mutation linked to a significantly higher risk of the disease.

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«Intensive DNA sequencing efforts to find the genetic «drivers» of metastasis, which is what kills patients in up to 80 percent of cases, have thus far been disappointing, to say the least,» he said.

The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model of psychiatric disease in which disruptions of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other genetic or epigenetic drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.