{"id":154112,"date":"2023-01-01T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/researchers-develop-new-software-for-unlocking-cancers-ancestry"},"modified":"2023-01-01T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T18:24:05","slug":"researchers-develop-new-software-for-unlocking-cancers-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/researchers-develop-new-software-for-unlocking-cancers-ancestry","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop new software for unlocking cancer\u2019s ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-new-software-for-unlocking-cancers-ancestry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could knowing where your ancestors came from be the key to better cancer treatments? Maybe, but where would that key fit? How can we trace cancer\u2019s ancestral roots to modern-day solutions? For Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Research Professor Alexander Krasnitz, the answers may lie deep within vast databases and hospital archives containing hundreds of thousands of tumor samples.<\/p>\n<p>Krasnitz and CSHL Postdoctoral Fellow Pascal Belleau are working to reveal the genealogical connections between <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> and race or ethnicity. They\u2019ve developed <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/KrasnitzLab\/RAIDS\">new software<\/a> that accurately infers continental <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/ancestry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ancestry<\/a> from tumor DNA and RNA. Their latest study is published in <i>Cancer Research<\/i>, and their work may help clinicians develop new strategies for early cancer detection and personalized treatments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do people of different races and ethnicities get sick at different rates with different types of cancer? They have different habits, living conditions, exposures\u2014all kinds of social and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/environmental+factors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental factors<\/a>. But there may be a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/genetic+component\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic component<\/a> as well,\u201d Krasnitz says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could knowing where your ancestors came from be the key to better cancer treatments? Maybe, but where would that key fit? How can we trace cancer\u2019s ancestral roots to modern-day solutions? For Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Research Professor Alexander Krasnitz, the answers may lie deep within vast databases and hospital archives containing hundreds of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}