TERT promoter mutations in cancer development

B Heidenreich, PS Rachakonda, K Hemminki… - Current opinion in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) encodes a rate-limiting catalytic subunit of
telomerase that maintains genomic integrity. TERT expression is mostly repressed in …

Transcription Regulation of the Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase (hTERT) Gene

MK Ramlee, J Wang, WX Toh, S Li - Genes, 2016 - mdpi.com
Embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells have the ability to maintain their
telomere length via expression of an enzymatic complex called telomerase. Similarly, more …

Integrated mutational landscape analysis of uterine leiomyosarcomas

J Choi, A Manzano, W Dong… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Uterine leiomyosarcomas (uLMS) are aggressive tumors arising from the smooth muscle
layer of the uterus. We analyzed 83 uLMS sample genetics, including 56 from Yale and 27 …

The evolving (epi) genetic landscape of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours

CP Pipinikas, AM Berner, T Sposito… - Endocrine-related …, 2019 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) are a relatively rare group of heterogeneous tumours
originating from neuroendocrine cells found throughout the body. Pancreatic NENs …

Genetic aspects of pituitary adenomas

P Marques, M Korbonits - Endocrinology and Metabolism …, 2017 - endo.theclinics.com
Pituitary adenomas (PAs) are common monoclonal tumors arising from adenohypophysis
cells. 1 PAs account for 15% of all intracranial tumors, being the third most common type of …

Hereditary hyperparathyroidism syndromes

F Giusti, L Cavalli, T Cavalli, ML Brandi - Journal of Clinical Densitometry, 2013 - Elsevier
Primary hyperparathyroidism is a common endocrine disorder, resulting from a persistent
hypercalcemia along with an inadequate secretion of parathyroid hormone. In approx 95 …

Human telomerase expression regulation

M Gladych, A Wojtyla, B Rubis - Biochemistry and cell biology, 2011 - cdnsciencepub.com
Since telomerase has been recognized as a relevant factor distinguishing cancer cells from
normal cells, it has become a very promising target for anti-cancer therapy. A correlation …

Menin coordinates C/EBPβ-mediated TGF-β signaling for epithelial-mesenchymal transition and growth inhibition in pancreatic cancer

P Cheng, Y Chen, T He, C Wang, S Guo, H Hu… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2019 - cell.com
Menin displays either tumor suppression or promotion functions in a context-dependent
manner. Previously, we proposed that Menin acts as a tumor suppressor by inhibiting cell …

miR-762 can negatively regulate menin in ovarian cancer

R Hou, Z Yang, SZ Wang, DM Chu, Q Liu… - OncoTargets and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Ovarian cancer accounts for the major part of the mortality attributable to female reproductive
system malignant tumors worldwide. Recently, the incidence of ovarian cancer has been …

[HTML][HTML] Functional dissection of breast cancer risk-associated TERT promoter variants

S Helbig, L Wockner, A Bouendeu, U Hille-Betz… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The multi-cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15. 33 includes TERT, encoding the telomerase
catalytic subunit. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified six single …