By Tim Illidge, Peter W. M. Johnson
A state of the art choice of without difficulty reproducible molecular concepts to higher comprehend, classify, and deal with lymphoma. one of the highlights are the way to use immunoglobulin gene rearrangements as markers of clonality, to use styles of somatic mutation within the variable areas to point at which degree transformation happened, and to use gene arrays to the query of organic heterogeneity in morphologically comparable ailments. learn methodologies which are hugely prone to turn into regimen perform sooner or later, similar to DNA microarray and immunoglobulin V-gene rearrangements, and dimension of minimum affliction, are incorporated. There also are molecular strategies for offering for generating novel therapeutics, equivalent to a DNA vaccine with patient-specific sequences derived from the lymphoma in query.
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Because of the constraints of RNA availability and cost, this is rarely done. Criteria for determining the quality of data sets are still evolving, as are the best methods and practices for data analysis and mining. It is important to ensure that you are quite clear as to what question(s) you are attempting to answer through expression profiling and whether you are in fact going to be arraying the right material in sufficient quantities to come close to meaningful insights into cancer biology and clinical heterogeneity.
02) The combination of clinical and molecular variables suggests a possible strategy for further individualization of patient treatment decisions. Nevertheless, additional information still remains to be captured because the use of both models in series failed to produce groups with 100% and 0% 5-yr overall survivals. Finally, the 13-gene model suggested novel therapeutic targets and strategies. Whether therapeutic leads suggested by expression profiling will prove useful and result in molecularly determined individualization of treatment remains to be seen.