Stomach cancer genes

This article is about the research of stomach cancer and the different genes that are associated with it.  after the research that was done by, researchers from the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) in Singapore and National Cancer Centre of Singapore.  this is a very big step forward even though there is a lot more research needed before anything is done to help prevent cancer.  The research done will help the second most deadly cancer, stomach cancer.  The problem with stomach cancer is, its usually detected too late, or if it is foiund early on it is rapidly mutating.

They started by scanning through 18,000 human genes and fiund 600 unknows genes that were linked with mutations in stomach cancer.  Two of the 600 genes identified that were associated with stomach cancer, FAT4 and ARID1A proved to be particularly interesting. A further analysis of about 100 stomach tumors found these genes to be mutated in 5 percent and 8 percent of stomach cancers. The problem that was seen was the chromosomes that show the two genes were missing in those who have the cancer.  There is a lot more research needed to come up with any more conclusions, including other cancers that may be linked to the genes analyzed.