Vanderbilt

While higher recurrence scores have been associated with increased mortality in women, the pattern of the association differed among male patients.

The project is part of the Human Cell Atlas, an international effort to build reference maps of all human cell types using single-cell analysis.

Hallmarks of the genetic disease, which can result in life-threatening cardiac complications, include progressive weakness and loss of heart muscle.

Researchers found that 14 percent of individuals with metastatic breast cancer had risky mutations germline mutations, including patients who did not meet testing criteria.

The program, launched last year, is designed to help early-career investigators who have primarily worked within groups pursuing independent research.

Researchers focused on candidate genes near expression quantitative trait loci identified by combining cancer susceptibility SNPs and available transcriptomic data.