Researchers Link 110 Genes with Breast Cancer

Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London (U.K.) have used a high-throughput genetic analysis technique known as Capture Hi-C (CHi-C) to link 110 genes with an increased risk of breast cancer. The high-resolution technique can identify how regulatory genetic elements physically interact with distant protein-coding genes, even when separated by megabases (Mb) of DNA. The ICR researchers used CHi-C to analyze 63 genome regions that previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) had l