Domestic dogs and cancer research: a breed-based genomics approach

BW Davis, EA Ostrander - ILAR journal, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Domestic dogs are unique from other animal models of cancer in that they generally
experience spontaneous disease. In addition, most types of cancer observed in humans are …

TMPRSS2:ERG Gene Fusions in Prostate Cancer of West African Men and a Meta-Analysis of Racial Differences

CK Zhou, D Young, ED Yeboah… - American journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The prevalence of fusions of the transmembrane protease, serine 2, gene (TMPRSS2) with
the erythroblast transformation-specific–related gene (ERG), or TMPRSS2: ERG, in prostate …

The TMPRSS2:ERG Rearrangement, ERG Expression, and Prostate Cancer Outcomes: A Cohort Study and Meta-analysis

A Pettersson, RE Graff, SR Bauer, MJ Pitt, RT Lis… - … , biomarkers & prevention, 2012 - AACR
Background: Whether the genomic rearrangement transmembrane protease, serine 2
(TMPRSS2): v-ets erythroblastosis virus E26 oncogene homolog (ERG) has prognostic …

Combined MYC Activation and Pten Loss Are Sufficient to Create Genomic Instability and Lethal Metastatic Prostate Cancer

GK Hubbard, LN Mutton, M Khalili, RP McMullin… - Cancer research, 2016 - AACR
Genetic instability, a hallmark feature of human cancers including prostatic
adenocarcinomas, is considered a driver of metastasis. Somatic copy number alterations …

FLI1 is a novel ETS transcription factor involved in gene fusions in prostate cancer

P Paulo, JD Barros‐Silva, FR Ribeiro… - Genes …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
To characterize the pattern of ETS rearrangements and to uncover novel ETS fusion genes,
we analyzed 200 prostate carcinomas (PCa) with TaqMan low‐density arrays (TLDAs) …

Prognostic histopathological and molecular markers on prostate cancer needle‐biopsies: a review

AM Hoogland, CF Kweldam… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate cancer is diverse in clinical presentation, histopathological tumor growth patterns,
and survival. Therefore, individual assessment of a tumor's aggressive potential is crucial for …

[HTML][HTML] Specific and redundant activities of ETV1 and ETV4 in prostate cancer aggressiveness revealed by co-overexpression cellular contexts

D Mesquita, JD Barros-Silva, J Santos, RI Skotheim… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genomic rearrangements involving ETS transcription factors are found in 50–70% of
prostate carcinomas. While the large majority of the rearrangements involve ERG, around …

The prognostic role of ERG immunopositivity in prostatic acinar adenocarcinoma: a study including 454 cases and review of the literature

B Xu, M Chevarie-Davis, S Chevalier, E Scarlata… - Human pathology, 2014 - Elsevier
TMPRSS2/ERG fusion is among the most frequent genetic anomalies in prostate
adenocarcinomas. Although positive immunostaining for ERG has been shown to tightly …

Novel 5′ fusion partners of ETV1 and ETV4 in prostate cancer

JD Barros-Silva, P Paulo, AC Bakken, N Cerveira… - Neoplasia, 2013 - Elsevier
Gene fusions involving the erythroblast transformation-specific (ETS) transcription factors
ERG, ETV1, ETV4, ETV5, and FLI1 are a common feature of prostate carcinomas (PCas) …

[HTML][HTML] Nuclear C-MYC expression level is associated with disease progression and potentially predictive of two year overall survival in prostate cancer

W Zeng, H Sun, F Meng, Z Liu, J Xiong… - … journal of clinical and …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose: Upregulation of nuclear C-MYC protein has been reported to be an early event in
prostate cancer (PCa); however, its clinicopathological and prognostic significance remain …