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Discovery and validation of breast cancer subtypes.

Kapp AV, Jeffrey SS, Langerød A, Børresen-Dale AL, Han W, Noh DY, Bukholm IR, Nicolau M, Brown PO, Tibshirani R. BMC Genomics. 2006: 7 231

Previous studies demonstrated breast cancer tumor tissue samples could be classified into different subtypes based upon DNA microarray profiles. The most recent study presented evidence for the existence of five different subtypes: normal breast-like, basal, luminal A, luminal B, and ERBB2+.

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