Led by a team from Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, researchers have created the largest and most detailed profile of genetic mutations found in African American women with triple-negative breast cancer.  The team’s study was published Aug. 26 in Nature Genetics.  The deadliest form of breast cancer, triple-negative breast cancer has “disproportionately” affected African American women, though the demographic has been underrepresented in genomic studies, according to an Aug. 26 news release from the cancer center. 

The Roswell Park team partnered with researchers from Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and Boston University, to create the mutational profile from the samples of 462 African American women wi

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