The Cancer Genome Atlas: The Value of DNA Sequencing

This video is one in a series of videos from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project explaining TCGA's approach to determining the important genomic changes that lead to cancer. TCGA researchers, Drs. Richard Gibbs, Lynda Chin, Stacey Gabriel and Paul Spellman, explain DNA sequencing and what it tells us about DNA changes in cancer, how looking across many tumors will help us to find which changes are meaningful and identify potential drug targets, and how genomics is changing how we think about cancer. The Cancer Genome Atlas is a comprehensive and coordinated effort supported by the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute to accelerate our understanding of the genetics of cancer using innovative genome analysis technologies. To learn more about The Value of DNA Sequencing, please visit http://cancergenome.nih.gov/newsevents/multimedialibrary/videos/dnasequencing

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Science & Technology

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• TCGA
• The Cancer Genome Atlas
• cancer
• genomics
• genetics
• DNA sequencing
• Richard Gibbs
• Lynda Chin
• Stacey Gabriel
• Paul Spellman
• NCI
• NHGRI
• NIH
• DNA changes in cancer
• National Cancer Institute
• National Institutes of Health