Biobank & access to data
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TRANSBIG collected whole blood, fresh frozen tumour tissue, tumour paraffin blocks and serum from MINDACT patients. These samples are stored in an independent biological materials bank (“biobank”) under the governance of BIG and are, together with the associated microarray raw data, available for future research. Research proposals requiring access to these samples and/or data can be submitted to BIG at big@bordet.be by completing the submission form.
Collaborations
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In 2009 TRANSBIG joined the Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study (COGS) project. This Consortium, supported by the European Commission Framework Programme (FP) VII, will perform germline single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) profiling on the MINDACT patient blood samples. Assessed SNP profiles of the MINDACT patients will be evaluated for breast cancer susceptibility, and then correlated with the corresponding clinical and microarray data (70-gene signature profile).