{"id":13593,"date":"2020-02-08T14:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T09:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13593"},"modified":"2020-02-08T14:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T09:29:46","slug":"explainedwhy-cancer-gene-map-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explainedwhy-cancer-gene-map-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained:Why cancer gene map matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently,a Pan-Cancer Project involving 1,300 scientists has completed a decade-long project to map the many gene mutations that drive cancer\u2019s development.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Pan Cancer Project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The project also called Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) is an international collaboration of the International Cancer Genome Consortium and The Cancer Genome Atlas(TCGA).<\/li><li>The project revealed the most comprehensive gene map of the genes whose departures from normal behaviour \u2014 mutations \u2014 trigger a cascade of genetic misbehaviours that eventually lead to cancer.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It found that on average, people&#8217;s cancers contain between four and five fundamental mutations that drive a cancer&#8217;s growth.<\/li><li>However, around 5% of cancers appeared to have no driver mutations at all showing there is still more work to do.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About International Cancer Genome Consortium:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The International Cancer Genome Consortium(ICGC) is a voluntary scientific organization established in 2007.<\/li><li>It coordinates a large number of research projects to unravel the genomic changes present in many forms of cancer that contribute to the burden of disease in people throughout the world.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mutation:<\/strong>It is any change that occurs in the DNA sequence of a cell.It may be caused by mistakes during cell division or they may be caused by exposure to DNA-damaging agents in the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently,a Pan-Cancer Project involving 1,300 scientists has completed a decade-long project to map the many gene mutations that drive cancer\u2019s development. Facts: About Pan Cancer Project: The project also called Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) is an international collaboration of the International Cancer Genome Consortium and The Cancer Genome Atlas(TCGA). The project revealed the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explainedwhy-cancer-gene-map-matters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained:Why cancer gene map matters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2805],"class_list":["post-13593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-cancer-gene-map","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704848885},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}