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Welcome to Breast Cancer Research

  Editor-in-Chief: Lewis A Chodosh (USA)
  Editor Emeritus: Bruce AJ Ponder (UK)
  Deputy editors: Hans-Olov Adami (Sweden), Jenny Chang (USA), Stephen RD Johnston (UK),
  and Sunil Lakhani (Australia)

Research highlight: Should breast cancer test be used?
The link between the CYP2D6 gene and breast cancer specific survival was found to be weak, shedding new light on whether it should be used to test predicted tamoxifen efficacy.

Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:R64

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	Research article Phenotypic and molecular characterization of the claudin-low intrinsic subtype of breast cancer Aleix Prat, Joel S Parker, Olga Karginova, Cheng Fan, Chad Livasy, Jason I Herschkowitz, Xiaping He, Charles M Perou Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:R68 (2 September 2010) [Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

	Research article Penta-O-galloyl-beta-D-glucose induces G1 arrest and DNA replicative S-phase arrest independently of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A, cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1B and P53 in human breast cancer cells and is orally active against triple negative xenograft growth Yubo Chai, Hyo-Jeong Lee, Ahmad Ali Shaik, Katai NKhata, Chengguo Xing, Jinhui Zhang, Soo-Jin Jeong, Sung-Hoon Kim, Junxuan Lu Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:R67 (1 September 2010) [Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

	Research article Benefits of biomarker selection and clinico-pathological covariate inclusion in breast cancer prognostic models Fabio Parisi, Ana M Gonzalez, Yasmine Nadler, Robert L Camp, David L Rimm, Harriet M Kluger, Yuval Kluger Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:R66 (1 September 2010) [Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

	Viewpoint A prophylactic vaccine for breast cancer? Christine J Watson, Barry A Gusterson Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:310 (31 August 2010) [PDF]

	Viewpoint Ovarian steroid hormones: what's hot in the stem cell pool? Diana M Cittelly, Jennifer K Richer, Carol A Sartorius Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:309 (31 August 2010) [PDF]

	Research article Expression levels of uridine 5'-diphospho-glucuronosyltransferase genes in breast tissue from healthy women are associated with mammographic density Vilde D Haakensen, Margarethe Biong, Ole Christian Lingjaerde, Marit Muri Holmen, Jan Ole Frantzen, Ying Chen, Dina Navjord, Linda Romundstad, Torben Luders, Ida K Bukholm, Hiroko K Solvang, Vessela N Kristensen, Giske Ursin, Anne-Lise Borresen-Dale, Aslaug Helland Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:R65 (27 August 2010) [Abstract] [Provisional PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]

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Hierarchical clustering of familial breast cancers. Hierarchical clustering using 200 probe sets that distinguish the orange branch from the other tumors in (A).

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