Gene expression: an overview of methods and applications for cancer research
An overview of methods and applications for cancer research
Keywords:
gene sequencing, gene expression, molecular techniques, genotype, veterinary oncologyAbstract
Gene expression is the study of how the genotype gives rise to the phenotype by investigating
the amount of transcribed mRNA in a biological system. A lot of methods have been
standardized to identify the variation in gene expression, including subtractive hybridization,
differential display, serial analysis of gene expression, microarray hybridization, and RNAseq sequencing. Most of techniques have been focused in cancer research and diagnosis,
producing a huge amount of data, which allowed to understand the cancer progression and
pathways, discover and evaluate new treatment interventions, new molecular tools for
diagnosis and prognosis, and analyze the survival time in human and animal patients. In this
way, gene expression techniques brought new important perspectives for the medical and
veterinary fields, and further researches focusing oncology will provide much more
knowledge concerning the pathways and interaction of healthy and tumor cells, improving the
perspectives of the daily interventions by the oncologists and clinicians.
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