In the News
January 6 2009
The National Cancer Institute's NCI-60 cell line panel is a public resource that has been extensively described for a broad array of biological outcomes and characteristics within the cancer research community (Shoemaker 2006 ). Adding to this rich resource, the CGF has genotyped the panel using the Illumina Human1M genotyping array; the results are now posted at (ftp://ftp-snp500cancer.nci.nih.gov/nci60/).
February 10 2008
The National Cancer Institute featured a recent prostate cancer follow up study published in Nature Genetics, and appeared on-line on 2/10/08.
June 1 2007
NPR interview discussing genetic factors related to breast cancer
May 29 2007
New York Times article discussing CGEMS breast cancer study.
May 27 2007
The CGEMS team replicated an association with SNPs in the FGFR2 gene and breast cancer risk. The manuscript describing these findings was published in Nature Genetics, first appearing on-line on 5/27/07
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April 15 2007
The CGEMS breast cancer association and frequency data were made available to the public through the data portal jointly developed by caBIG and CGEMS.
April 1 2007
CGF members have helped to identify a second prostate cancer risk locus on chromosome 8q24. The manuscript describing the findings, the first to be published from the CGEMS project, was published in Nature Genetics, and appeared on-line on 4/1/07.
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February 5 2007
A new build of the CGEMS prostate cancer scan data is released through the data portal.
October 19 2006
The Phase 1a CGEMS prostate cancer association and frequency data were made available to the public through a data portal jointly developed by caBIG and CGEMS.
