Beyond GWASs: illuminating the dark road from association to function

SL Edwards, J Beesley, JD French… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have enabled the discovery of common genetic
variation contributing to normal and pathological traits and clinical drug responses, but …

The continuum of cancer immunosurveillance: prognostic, predictive, and mechanistic signatures

J Galon, HK Angell, D Bedognetti, FM Marincola - Immunity, 2013 - cell.com
Numerous analyses of large patient cohorts identified specific patterns of immune activation
associated with patient survival. We established these as the immune contexture …

Analysis of circulating tumor DNA to monitor metastatic breast cancer

SJ Dawson, DWY Tsui, M Murtaza… - … England Journal of …, 2013 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The management of metastatic breast cancer requires monitoring of the tumor
burden to determine the response to treatment, and improved biomarkers are needed …

Correlating transcriptional networks to breast cancer survival: a large-scale coexpression analysis

C Clarke, SF Madden, P Doolan, ST Aherne… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Weighted gene coexpression network analysis (WGCNA) is a powerful 'guilt-by-association'-
based method to extract coexpressed groups of genes from large heterogeneous …

Pattern discovery and cancer gene identification in integrated cancer genomic data

Q Mo, S Wang, VE Seshan… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Large-scale integrated cancer genome characterization efforts including the cancer genome
atlas and the cancer cell line encyclopedia have created unprecedented opportunities to …

Protein phosphatase 2A: a target for anticancer therapy

D Perrotti, P Neviani - The lancet oncology, 2013 - thelancet.com
Summary Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), one of the main serine–threonine phosphatases
in mammalian cells, maintains cell homoeostasis by counteracting most of the kinase-driven …

Growth of triple-negative breast cancer cells relies upon coordinate autocrine expression of the proinflammatory cytokines IL-6 and IL-8

ZC Hartman, GM Poage, P Den Hollander, A Tsimelzon… - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) are aggressive with no effective targeted therapies. A
combined database analysis identified 32 inflammation-related genes differentially …

The shaping and functional consequences of the microRNA landscape in breast cancer

H Dvinge, A Git, S Gräf, M Salmon-Divon, C Curtis… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) show differential expression across breast cancer subtypes, and have
both oncogenic and tumour-suppressive roles,,,,,. Here we report the miRNA expression …

Predicting outcomes in radiation oncology—multifactorial decision support systems

P Lambin, RGPM Van Stiphout… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2013 - nature.com
With the emergence of individualized medicine and the increasing amount and complexity of
available medical data, a growing need exists for the development of clinical decision …

Cancer genetics and genomics of human FOX family genes

M Katoh, M Igarashi, H Fukuda, H Nakagama, M Katoh - Cancer letters, 2013 - Elsevier
Forkhead-box (FOX) family proteins, involved in cell growth and differentiation as well as
embryogenesis and longevity, are DNA-binding proteins regulating transcription and DNA …