Washington University scientists first to sequence genome of cancer patient
Date: 7.11.2008
For the first time, scientists have decoded the **complete DNA** of a **cancer patient** and traced her disease - **acute myelogenous leukemia** - to its genetic roots. A large research team at the Genome Sequencing Center and the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sequenced the genome of the patient - a woman in her 50s who ultimately died of her disease - and the genome of her **leukemia cells**, to identify genetic changes unique to her cancer.
The study is reported in the Nov. 6 issue of the journal Nature.
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