Researchers Find More Genes Linked to Lung Cancer
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22 — Researchers have identified 26 genes associated with the most common type of lung cancer, adenocarcinoma — more than doubling the number of genes known to play a role in the deadly disease.
The discovery could help in developing individualized ways of diagnosing and treating lung cancer, the top cancer killer, the researchers said.
“Although similar, smaller cancer gene sequencing projects have been reported, our study is the largest to date and provides the statistical power to detect significantly mutated genes,” study co-author Richard Wilson, director of Washington University’s Genome Sequencing Center in St. Louis, said during a Tuesday teleconference.