Category Archive: Research Resources

Mar 20

Share and Share Alike: How You Too Could Benefit from NCI Data Sharing Resources

The past decade has seen a virtual explosion in the generation and analysis of genomic data. Due in part to NIH data sharing policies, much of this information is available through controlled access databases. There are a growing number of key scientific findings stemming from this shared data, but we are only at the tip …

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Permanent link to this article: http://blog-epi.grants.cancer.gov/2013/03/20/nci-data-sharing-resources/

Mar 29

Leveraging Existing Biospecimen Resources to Advance Cancer Epidemiology Research

Genetic and environmental risk factors contribute to the occurrence of most common cancers (1).  Moreover, these relationships with cancer risk are complicated by the fact that the spectrum of risk factors may depend on the specific cancer subtype.  For example, different genetic loci are associated with risk of specific breast cancer subtypes (2­).  Beyond genetic …

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Permanent link to this article: http://blog-epi.grants.cancer.gov/2012/03/29/leveraging-existing-biospecimen-resources/