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Barbara Kram, Editor | September 09, 2008
NCI's Deputy Director Anna D. Barker, Ph.D., who co-leads the research program, said, "TCGA's unprecedented multi-dimensional data on large numbers of high quality tumor and control samples offer new molecular insights that will most certainly inform the discovery of new cancer interventions."
As in the Human Genome Project, TCGA data are being made rapidly available to the research community through a database, http://cancergenome.nih.gov/dataportal. The database provides access to public datasets, and with required review and approval, allows researchers access to more in-depth data.
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The TCGA Research Network members who chaired the large TCGA committee that wrote the Nature paper were Lynda Chin, M.D., and Matthew Meyerson, M.D., Ph.D., of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr. Meyerson is also affiliated with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.
For a full list of participants in the TCGA Research Network, go to http://cancergenome.nih.gov/components/index.asp
NCI and NHGRI are two of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
For more details about The Cancer Genome Atlas, including Q&As, a graphic, a glossary, a brief guide to genomics and a media library of available images, please go to http://cancergenome.nih.gov.
For more information about cancer and the National Cancer Institute, please visit the NCI Web site at http://www.cancer.gov, or call NCI's Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237).
Additional information about NHGRI can be found at its Web site, http://www.genome.gov.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) - The Nation's Medical Research Agency - includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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