An immune response gene expression module identifies a good prognosis subtype in estrogen receptor negative breast cancer

angelfish submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (genomebiology.com)

"Researchers show that ER negative basal breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with at least four main subtypes. Furthermore we show that the heterogeneity in the clinical outcome of ER- breast cancer is related to the variability in expression levels of complement and immune response pathway genes independently of lymphocytic infiltration."

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Unraveling a Dispute: Is Systemic Inflammation Related to Islet Autoimmunity?

alpha submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (diabetes.diabetesjournals.org)

"Diabetes is an emblematic example of a heterogeneous disease. Systemic inflammation has emerged as a prominent factor in the type 2 diabetes pathoetiology, but it remains ill-defined in type 1 diabetes."

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