Biological and clinical implications of FGFR aberrations in paediatric and young adult cancers

LM Brown, PG Ekert, EDG Fleuren - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Rare but recurrent mutations in the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) pathways, most
commonly in one of the four FGFR receptor tyrosine kinase genes, can potentially be …

VRK1 is a synthetic–lethal target in VRK2-deficient glioblastoma

JA Shields, SR Meier, M Bandi, EE Mulkearns-Hubert… - Cancer Research, 2022 - AACR
Synthetic lethality is a genetic interaction that results in cell death when two genetic
deficiencies co-occur but not when either deficiency occurs alone, which can be co-opted for …

Functional and regulatory impact of chimeric RNAs in human normal and cancer cells

S Mukherjee, SB Mukherjee… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fusions of two genes can lead to the generation of chimeric RNAs, which may have a
distinct functional role from their original molecules. Chimeric RNAs could encode novel …

A novel pipeline for prioritizing cancer type‐specific therapeutic vulnerabilities using DepMap identifies PAK2 as a target in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

MK Sannigrahi, AC Cao, P Rajagopalan… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
There is limited guidance on exploiting the genome‐wide loss‐of‐function CRISPR screens
in cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) to identify new targets for individual cancer types …

Somatic structural variants drive distinct modes of oncogenesis in melanoma

JR Conway, R Gillani, J Crowdis, B Reardon… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - jci.org
The diversity of structural variants (SVs) in melanoma and how they impact oncogenesis are
incompletely known. We performed harmonized analysis of SVs across melanoma histologic …

Building a translational cancer dependency map for The Cancer Genome Atlas

X Shi, C Gekas, D Verduzco, S Petiwala, C Jeffries… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer dependency maps have accelerated the discovery of tumor vulnerabilities that can
be exploited as drug targets when translatable to patients. The Cancer Genome Atlas …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative polyadenylation-related genetic variants contribute to bladder cancer risk

T Liu, J Gu, C Li, M Guo, L Yuan, Q Lv… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aberrant alternative polyadenylation (APA) events play an important role in cancers, but little
is known about whether APA-related genetic variants contribute to the susceptibility to …

Analysis of cancer genomic amplifications identifies druggable collateral dependencies within the amplicon

G Pons, G Gallo-Oller, N Navarro, P Zarzosa… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Genomic amplifications are highly prevalent in cancer and often contribute
to increased proliferation or cell survival upon the administration of anti-cancer drugs. The …

Generation of a biliary tract cancer cell line atlas reveals molecular subtypes and therapeutic targets

V Vijay, N Karisani, L Shi, YH Hung, P Vu, P Kattel… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Biliary tract cancers (BTCs) are a group of deadly malignancies encompassing intrahepatic
and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, gallbladder carcinoma, and ampullary carcinoma …

[HTML][HTML] IMOPAC: A web server for interactive multiomics and pharmacological analyses of patient-derived cancer cell lines

G Li, D Wan, J Liang, P Zhu, Z Ding, B Zhang - Computational and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Large-scale multidimensional cancer genomic and pharmacological profiles have been
created by several large consortium projects, including NCI-60, GDSC and DepMap …