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FRY Gene Identification Publication

GeneAssess, Inc. is delighted to announce the publication of the study identifying FRY as a candidate mammary carcinoma susceptibility gene. This is the announcement the company carried on its own homepage.

Interval mapping of putative quantitative trait loci on rat chromosome 12
Figure 1. Interval mapping of putative quantitative trait loci (QTL) on rat chromosomes 12 that confer susceptibility to NMU-induced mammary carcinogenesis. From the paper itself, PLOS ONE, CC BY.

The paper

Mapping of Mcs30, a new mammary carcinoma susceptibility quantitative trait locus (QTL30) on rat chromosome 12: identification of fry as a candidate Mcs gene. Ren X, Graham JC, Jing L, Mikheev AM, Gao Y, Lew JP, Xie H, Kim AS, Shang X, Friedman C, Vail G, Fang MZ, Bromberg Y, Zarbl H. PLoS ONE 8(9): e70930.

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Press releases and publications

Everything the company announced, and where it is

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2013

Mapping of Mcs30, a new mammary carcinoma susceptibility quantitative trait locus (QTL30) on rat chromosome 12: identification of fry as a candidate Mcs gene

PLoS ONE 8(9): e70930 · Ren X, Graham JC, Jing L, Mikheev AM, Gao Y, Lew JP, Xie H, Kim AS, Shang X, Friedman C, Vail G, Fang MZ, Bromberg Y, Zarbl H

The paper that identified FRY. Open access under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.

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2012

Foundation Venture Capital Group invests $500,000 in GeneAssess

Global Corporate Venturing, 4 July 2012

The company’s first disclosed financing, alongside the founder’s description of FRY as a potential platform for susceptibility tests, progression tests and tumour grading.

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2012

GeneAssess receives $500K from Foundation Venture Capital Group

FinSMEs, July 2012

Trade-press coverage of the same round.

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2020

Fry is required for mammary gland development during pregnant periods and affects the morphology and growth of breast cancer cells

Frontiers in Oncology 9:1279 · Liu Y, Chen X, Gong Z, Zhang H, Fei F, Tang X, Wang J, Xu P, Zarbl H, Ren X

Later work from the same programme, using conditional knockout mice. Open access under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.

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