Global surveillance of somatic alterations in triple negative breast cancers by whole exon sequencing analyses. Homo sapiens

Triple negative breast cancers (TNBC), defined by lacking the expression of oestrogen receptor-alpha (ERa), progesterone receptor, and HER2, is considered to be one of the most aggressive subtypes of all breast cancers. To elucidate the genomic and molecular aberrations in TNBC, we performed whole exon sequencing (WES) analysis on 36 TNBC, and identified 117 genes that significantly mutated (q 2.0.