Orion Genomics identifies breast cancer biomarkers

7 January 2008

USA-based Orion Genomics has announced the discovery and validation of the most frequent DNA alterations detected in breast cancer to date. The results of a genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation appeared in the journal PLoS ONE. The study, titled Identification of Novel High-Frequency DNA Methylation Changes in Breast Cancer, found more than 50 novel biomarkers, which were subsequently validated in up to 230 independent patient samples.

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