Clear cell renal cell carcinoma ontogeny and mechanisms of lethality

E Jonasch, CL Walker, WK Rathmell - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2021 - nature.com
The molecular features that define clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) initiation and
progression are being increasingly defined. The TRACERx Renal studies and others that …

Pancreatic cancer biology and genetics from an evolutionary perspective

A Makohon-Moore, CA Iacobuzio-Donahue - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Cancer is an evolutionary disease, containing the hallmarks of an asexually reproducing
unicellular organism subject to evolutionary paradigms. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma …

Uncovering novel mutational signatures by de novo extraction with SigProfilerExtractor

SMA Islam, M Díaz-Gay, Y Wu, M Barnes, R Vangara… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Mutational signature analysis is commonly performed in cancer genomic studies. Here, we
present SigProfilerExtractor, an automated tool for de novo extraction of mutational …

Genomic analyses identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer

P Bailey, DK Chang, K Nones, AL Johns, AM Patch… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Integrated genomic analysis of 456 pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas identified 32
recurrently mutated genes that aggregate into 10 pathways: KRAS, TGF-β, WNT, NOTCH …

Pancreatic cancer genomes reveal aberrations in axon guidance pathway genes

AV Biankin, N Waddell, KS Kassahn, MC Gingras… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal malignancy with few effective therapies. We performed
exome sequencing and copy number analysis to define genomic aberrations in a …

VHL, the story of a tumour suppressor gene

L Gossage, T Eisen, ER Maher - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Since the Von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) disease tumour suppressor gene VHL was
identified in 1993 as the genetic basis for a rare disorder, it has proved to be of wide medical …

Genetic and epigenetic basis of hepatoblastoma diversity

G Nagae, S Yamamoto, M Fujita, T Fujita… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common pediatric liver malignancy; however, hereditary
predisposition and acquired molecular aberrations related to HB clinicopathological …

Pancreatic cancer

J Kleeff, M Korc, M Apte, C La Vecchia… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is a major cause of cancer-associated mortality, with a dismal overall
prognosis that has remained virtually unchanged for many decades. Currently, prevention or …

Targeting the Notch-regulated non-coding RNA TUG1 for glioma treatment

K Katsushima, A Natsume, F Ohka, K Shinjo… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Targeting self-renewal is an important goal in cancer therapy and recent studies have
focused on Notch signalling in the maintenance of stemness of glioma stem cells (GSCs) …

The spectrum of SWI/SNF mutations, ubiquitous in human cancers

AH Shain, JR Pollack - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
SWI/SNF is a multi-subunit chromatin remodeling complex that uses the energy of ATP
hydrolysis to reposition nucleosomes, thereby modulating gene expression. Accumulating …