Publications and figures
Both papers, open access, and every figure at full resolution.
Publications
The science, open access
Both papers behind this site are published under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, so the methods, the figures and the data are readable by anyone. The figures on this rebuild are reproduced from them directly.
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.
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.
2012
GeneAssess receives $500K from Foundation Venture Capital Group
FinSMEs, July 2012
Trade-press coverage of the same round.
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.
Figures
All twelve, downloadable at full size
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Figure 1
Interval mapping of putative quantitative trait loci (QTL) on rat chromosomes 12 that confer susceptibility to…
Figure 2
FISH mapping of BAC CH230-85G15, containing D12RAT59, to rat chromosome 12q11-q12.…
Figure 3
Ideogram of rat chromosome 12 (RNO12).…
Figure 4
Comparison of Brca2 mRNA levels in mammary tissue and DNA sequences in Cop and F344 rats.…
Figure 5
Expression of rat Fry mRNA in rat tissues and mammary tumours.…
Figure 6
Alignment of proteins encoded by FRY gene orthologs from different species.…
Figure 7
FRY expression and/or function are reduced in breast cancer cell lines relative to the nontransformed MCF-10A …
Frontiers 2020, figure 1
Fry conditional knockout mice: body weight, general observations and behaviour.…
Frontiers 2020, figure 2
Mammary gland whole mounts from Fry conditional knockout and control mice.…
Frontiers 2020, figure 3
Histology and gene expression in the mammary gland.…
Frontiers 2020, figure 4
Growth and morphology of breast cancer cells with altered Fry.…
Frontiers 2020, figure 5
Proliferation and signalling in Fry-deficient mammary tissue.…
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