[HTML][HTML] CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

[HTML][HTML] Overcoming cancer therapeutic bottleneck by drug repurposing

Z Zhang, L Zhou, N Xie, EC Nice, T Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ever present hurdles for the discovery of new drugs for cancer therapy have necessitated
the development of the alternative strategy of drug repurposing, the development of old …

[HTML][HTML] Causal relationship between gut microbiota and cancers: a two-sample Mendelian randomisation study

Y Long, L Tang, Y Zhou, S Zhao, H Zhu - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Evidence from observational studies and clinical trials suggests that the gut
microbiota is associated with cancer. However, the causal association between gut …

Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

V Tam, N Patel, M Turcotte, Y Bossé, G Paré… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the
genomes of many individuals to identify genotype–phenotype associations. GWAS have …

Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

JR Huyghe, SA Bien, TA Harrison, HM Kang, S Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To further dissect the genetic architecture of colorectal cancer (CRC), we performed whole-
genome sequencing of 1,439 cases and 720 controls, imputed discovered sequence …

[HTML][HTML] A causal mechanism for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

M Greaves - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
In this Review, I present evidence supporting a multifactorial causation of childhood acute
lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), a major subtype of paediatric cancer. ALL evolves in two …

[PDF][PDF] Phase separation as a missing mechanism for interpretation of disease mutations

B Tsang, I Pritišanac, SW Scherer, AM Moses… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
It is unclear how disease mutations impact intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs),
which lack a stable folded structure. These mutations, while prevalent in disease, are …

[PDF][PDF] The translational challenges of precision oncology

O Pich, C Bailey, TBK Watkins, S Zaccaria… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The translational challenges in the field of precision oncology are in part related to the
biological complexity and diversity of this disease. Technological advances in genomics …

[HTML][HTML] The need for multi-omics biomarker signatures in precision medicine

M Olivier, R Asmis, GA Hawkins, TD Howard… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in omics technologies have led to unprecedented efforts characterizing
the molecular changes that underlie the development and progression of a wide array of …

Supervised machine learning empowered multifactorial genetic inheritance disorder prediction

TM Ghazal, H Al Hamadi, M Umar Nasir… - Computational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fatal diseases like cancer, dementia, and diabetes are very dangerous. This leads to fear of
death if these are not diagnosed at early stages. Computer science uses biomedical studies …