Exploring the genetic and molecular basis of differences in multiple myeloma of individuals of African and European descent

AJ Levine, JD Carpten, M Murphy… - Cell Death & …, 2024 - nature.com
Multiple Myeloma is a typical example of a neoplasm that shows significant differences in
incidence, age of onset, type, and frequency of genetic alterations between patients of …

Avoidance or adaptation of radiotherapy in patients with cancer with Li-Fraumeni and heritable TP53-related cancer syndromes

J Thariat, F Chevalier, D Orbach, L Ollivier… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
The management of patients with cancer and Li-Fraumeni or heritable TP53-related cancer
syndromes is complex because of their increased risk of developing second malignant …

Germline variant burden in cancer genes correlates with age at diagnosis and somatic mutation burden

T Qing, H Mohsen, M Marczyk, Y Ye, T O'Meara… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancers harbor many somatic mutations and germline variants, we hypothesized that the
combined effect of germline variants that alter the structure, expression, or function of protein …

Genetic variation in TERT modifies the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in alcohol-related cirrhosis: results from a genome-wide case-control study

S Buch, H Innes, PL Lutz, HD Nischalke, JU Marquardt… - Gut, 2023 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) often develops in patients with alcohol-related
cirrhosis at an annual risk of up to 2.5%. Some host genetic risk factors have been identified …

Association between a polymorphic variant in the CDKN2B‐AS1/ANRIL gene and pancreatic cancer risk

M Giaccherini, R Farinella… - … Journal of Cancer, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Genes carrying high‐penetrance germline mutations may also be associated with cancer
susceptibility through common low‐penetrance genetic variants. To increase the knowledge …

Genomic hallmarks and therapeutic implications of G0 cell cycle arrest in cancer

AJ Wiecek, SJ Cutty, D Kornai, M Parreno-Centeno… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Therapy resistance in cancer is often driven by a subpopulation of cells that are
temporarily arrested in a non-proliferative G0 state, which is difficult to capture and whose …

Germline cancer gene expression quantitative trait loci are associated with local and global tumor mutations

Y Liu, A Gusev, P Kraft - Cancer research, 2023 - AACR
Somatic mutations drive cancer development and are relevant to patient responses to
treatment. Emerging evidence shows that variations in the somatic genome can be …

Poly (beta-amino ester)-based nanoparticles enable nonviral delivery of base editors for targeted tumor gene editing

Q Chen, L Su, X He, J Li, Y Cao, Q Wu, J Qin… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Base editing is an emerging genome editing technology with the advantages of precise
base corrections, no double-strand DNA breaks, and no need for templates, which provides …

The landscape of the heritable cancer genome

V Fanfani, L Citi, AL Harris, F Pezzella… - Cancer Research, 2021 - AACR
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have found hundreds of single-nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNP) associated with increased risk of cancer. However, the amount of …

Enhancer RNA transcription is essential for a novel CSF1 enhancer in triple-negative breast cancer

MW Lewis, K Wisniewska, CM King, S Li, A Coffey… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In cancer, regulatory regions of the genome are hijacked by the tumor cells
for the activation of oncogenes that lead to cancer initiation and progression. One of the …