Abstract
Methods for cancer gene discovery include identification of viral oncogenes, identification of genes associated with recurrent chromosomal aberrations, and screens for genes capable of the transformation of cells in culture. In recent years, the completed genome sequence of human and model organisms has markedly enhanced cancer gene identification. Whole genome, high-throughput screens have been facilitated by the advent of new technologies such as murine leukemia virus-based mutagenesis, Sleeping Beauty-based mutagenesis, RNA interference, exon re-sequencing, and high-resolution methods for detecting chromosomal amplifications and deletions; these, in turn, have led to the identification of novel tumor suppressors and oncogenes. The identification of genes that are altered by mutation or expression and which are directly involved in tumor initiation and maintenance will be instrumental for understanding cancer phenotypic variation and for identifying crucial therapeutic targets.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 23-29 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Current Opinion in Genetics and Development |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We apologize to our colleagues whose work we could not discuss and cite here, owing to space limitations. We thank the members of the Largaespada laboratory and members of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research for constant support and helpful discussions. LSC was funded by the National Cancer Institute (F32 CA106192) and by a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Cancer Society. Research in the Largaespada laboratory is supported by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (R01 DA014764 and UO1 CA84221), the American Cancer Society (RPG LIB-106632) and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America (LLS 7019).
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