Understanding aneuploidy in cancer through the lens of system inheritance, fuzzy inheritance and emergence of new genome systems

CJ Ye, S Regan, G Liu, S Alemara, HH Heng - Molecular cytogenetics, 2018 - Springer
Background In the past 15 years, impressive progress has been made to understand the
molecular mechanism behind aneuploidy, largely due to the effort of using various-omics …

Cancer as robust intrinsic state shaped by evolution: a key issues review

R Yuan, X Zhu, G Wang, S Li, P Ao - Reports on Progress in …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Cancer is a complex disease: its pathology cannot be properly understood in terms of
independent players—genes, proteins, molecular pathways, or their simple combinations …

[图书][B] Debating cancer: the paradox in cancer research

HHQ Heng - 2015 - books.google.com
Cancer research is at a crossroads. Traditionally, cancer has been thought of as a disease
of gene mutation, where the stepwise accumulation of cancer gene mutations is the key, and …

Why it is crucial to analyze non clonal chromosome aberrations or NCCAs?

HHQ Heng, SM Regan, G Liu, CJ Ye - Molecular cytogenetics, 2016 - Springer
Current cytogenetics has largely focused its efforts on the identification of recurrent
karyotypic alterations, also known as clonal chromosomal aberrations (CCAs). The rationale …

A postgenomic perspective on molecular cytogenetics

HH Heng, SD Horne, S Chaudhry, SM Regan… - Current …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: The postgenomic era is featured by massive data collection and analyses from
various large scale-omics studies. Despite the promising capability of systems biology and …

Bioenergetics of life, disease and death phenomena

A Kasperski, R Kasperska - Theory in Biosciences, 2018 - Springer
In this article, some new aspects of unified cell bioenergetics are presented. From the
perspective of unified cell bioenergetics certain subsequent stages of cancer development …

[HTML][HTML] Genotype, environment, and evolutionary mechanism of diseases

HHQ Heng, S Regan, JY Christine - Environmental Disease, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Large-scale genomic projects have unexpectedly challenged the current approach of
focusing on genes in disease studies. As common gene mutations are difficult to identify for …

Unraveling the Drivers of Tumorigenesis in the Context of Evolution: Theoretical Models and Bioinformatics Tools

X Zhu, W Zhao, Z Zhou, X Gu - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2023 - Springer
Cancer originates from somatic cells that have accumulated mutations. These mutations
alter the phenotype of the cells, allowing them to escape homeostatic regulation that …

Heterogeneity‐mediated cellular adaptation and its trade‐off: searching for the general principles of diseases

HH Heng - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Big‐data‐omics have promised the success of precision medicine. However, most common
diseases belong to adaptive systems where the precision is all but difficult to achieve. In this …

Multidisciplinary insight into clonal expansion of HTLV-1–infected cells in adult T-cell leukemia via modeling by deterministic finite automata coupled with high …

A Farmanbar, S Firouzi, SJ Park, K Nakai… - BMC medical …, 2017 - Springer
Background Clonal expansion of leukemic cells leads to onset of adult T-cell leukemia
(ATL), an aggressive lymphoid malignancy with a very poor prognosis. Infection with human …