«We identified a number of new genes that are frequently mutated in CS,» said senior author Alessandro Santin, M.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at Yale School of Medicine, and program leader of
the gynecological cancers research program at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale - New Haven and a member of Yale Cancer Center.
This study was supported by Norma C. and Albert I. Geller via the
Gynecological Cancer Translation
Research Program at the Case Comprehensive
Cancer Center, and grants from The Mary Kay Foundation (to A.D. and R.X.), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National
Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.).