Discovering and understanding oncogenic gene fusions through data intensive computational approaches

NS Latysheva, MM Babu - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Although gene fusions have been recognized as important drivers of cancer for decades,
our understanding of the prevalence and function of gene fusions has been revolutionized …

Application of next generation sequencing to human gene fusion detection: computational tools, features and perspectives

Q Wang, J Xia, P Jia, W Pao, Z Zhao - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Gene fusions are important genomic events in human cancer because their fusion gene
products can drive the development of cancer and thus are potential prognostic tools or …

The emerging complexity of gene fusions in cancer

F Mertens, B Johansson, T Fioretos… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Structural chromosome rearrangements may result in the exchange of coding or regulatory
DNA sequences between genes. Many such gene fusions are strong driver mutations in …

Fusion genes and their discovery using high throughput sequencing

MJ Annala, BC Parker, W Zhang, M Nykter - Cancer letters, 2013 - Elsevier
Fusion genes are hybrid genes that combine parts of two or more original genes. They can
form as a result of chromosomal rearrangements or abnormal transcription, and have been …

TumorFusions: an integrative resource for cancer-associated transcript fusions

X Hu, Q Wang, M Tang, F Barthel, S Amin… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Gene fusion represents a class of molecular aberrations in cancer and has been exploited
for therapeutic purposes. In this paper we describe TumorFusions, a data portal that …

FusionGDB: fusion gene annotation DataBase

P Kim, X Zhou - Nucleic acids research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Gene fusion is one of the hallmarks of cancer genome via chromosomal rearrangement
initiated by DNA double-strand breakage. To date, many fusion genes (FGs) have been …

[HTML][HTML] GeneFuse: detection and visualization of target gene fusions from DNA sequencing data

S Chen, M Liu, T Huang, W Liao, M Xu… - International journal of …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In recent years, gene fusion detection for cancer treatment has become increasingly
important since more therapeutic agents have been developed to suppress fusion kinases …

deFuse: an algorithm for gene fusion discovery in tumor RNA-Seq data

A McPherson, F Hormozdiari, A Zayed… - PLoS computational …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Gene fusions created by somatic genomic rearrangements are known to play an important
role in the onset and development of some cancers, such as lymphomas and sarcomas …

The landscape and therapeutic relevance of cancer-associated transcript fusions

K Yoshihara, Q Wang, W Torres-Garcia, S Zheng… - Oncogene, 2015 - nature.com
Transcript fusions as a result of chromosomal rearrangements have been a focus of
attention in cancer as they provide attractive therapeutic targets. To identify novel fusion …

A functional genomic approach to actionable gene fusions for precision oncology

J Li, H Lu, PKS Ng, A Pantazi, CKM Ip, KJ Jeong… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Fusion genes represent a class of attractive therapeutic targets. Thousands of fusion genes
have been identified in patients with cancer, but the functional consequences and …