title: Molecular portraits of breast cancer: tumour subtypes as distinct disease entities.
abstract: This Review describes advances in the characterisation of breast tumour phenotypes using DNA microarrays and the identification of five subtypes of breast cancer with significant clinical implications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Oslo, Norway. rsorlie@labmed.uio.no
authors.forename: Therese
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sørlie
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic / Q000235:genetics*; D019398:Genes, BRCA1; D016158:Genes, p53; D006801:Humans; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D010641:Phenotype; D016019:Survival Analysis