Search Results - "Beroukhim, Rameen"
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Genomic evolution of cancer models: perils and opportunities
Published in Nature reviews. Cancer (01-02-2019)“…Cancer research relies on model systems, which reflect the biology of actual human tumours to only a certain extent. One important feature of human cancer is…”
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Histone demethylase KDM6A directly senses oxygen to control chromatin and cell fate
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (15-03-2019)“…Oxygen sensing is central to metazoan biology and has implications for human disease. Mammalian cells express multiple oxygen-dependent enzymes called…”
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Genetic and transcriptional evolution alters cancer cell line drug response
Published in Nature (London) (01-08-2018)“…Human cancer cell lines are the workhorse of cancer research. Although cell lines are known to evolve in culture, the extent of the resultant genetic and…”
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Loss of heterozygosity of essential genes represents a widespread class of potential cancer vulnerabilities
Published in Nature communications (20-05-2020)“…Alterations in non-driver genes represent an emerging class of potential therapeutic targets in cancer. Hundreds to thousands of non-driver genes undergo loss…”
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GISTIC2.0 facilitates sensitive and confident localization of the targets of focal somatic copy-number alteration in human cancers
Published in Genome biology (28-04-2011)“…We describe methods with enhanced power and specificity to identify genes targeted by somatic copy-number alterations (SCNAs) that drive cancer growth. By…”
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Cas9 activates the p53 pathway and selects for p53-inactivating mutations
Published in Nature genetics (01-07-2020)“…Cas9 is commonly introduced into cell lines to enable CRISPR–Cas9-mediated genome editing. Here, we studied the genetic and transcriptional consequences of…”
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SvABA: genome-wide detection of structural variants and indels by local assembly
Published in Genome research (01-04-2018)“…Structural variants (SVs), including small insertion and deletion variants (indels), are challenging to detect through standard alignment-based variant calling…”
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Landscape of Genomic Alterations in Pituitary Adenomas
Published in Clinical cancer research (01-04-2017)“…Pituitary adenomas are the second most common primary brain tumor, yet their genetic profiles are incompletely understood. We performed whole-exome sequencing…”
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Structural Alterations Driving Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Revealed by Linked-Read Genome Sequencing
Published in Cell (12-07-2018)“…Nearly all prostate cancer deaths are from metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), but there have been few whole-genome sequencing (WGS)…”
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Absolute quantification of somatic DNA alterations in human cancer
Published in Nature biotechnology (01-05-2012)“…Tumors vary in their ratio of normal to cancerous cells and in their genomic copy number. Carter et al . describe an analytic method for inferring the purity…”
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Pan-cancer patterns of somatic copy number alteration
Published in Nature genetics (01-10-2013)“…Rameen Beroukhim and colleagues analyzed somatic structural alterations in 12 tumor types. Whole-genome doubling was found in over a third of all cancers,…”
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Targeting wild-type KRAS-amplified gastroesophageal cancer through combined MEK and SHP2 inhibition
Published in Nature medicine (01-07-2018)“…The role of KRAS, when activated through canonical mutations, has been well established in cancer 1 . Here we explore a secondary means of KRAS activation in…”
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Genomic sequencing of meningiomas identifies oncogenic SMO and AKT1 mutations
Published in Nature genetics (01-03-2013)“…Rameen Beroukhim, Ian Dunn, William Hahn and colleagues report genome and exome sequencing of meningiomas. They identified recurrent somatic mutations in AKT1…”
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A molecularly integrated grade for meningioma
Published in Neuro-oncology (Charlottesville, Va.) (04-05-2022)“…Abstract Background Meningiomas are the most common primary intracranial tumor in adults. Clinical care is currently guided by the World Health Organization…”
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Epigenetic targeting of Hedgehog pathway transcriptional output through BET bromodomain inhibition
Published in Nature medicine (01-07-2014)“…Cancers dependent on hedgehog pathway signaling are susceptible to the BET bromodomain inhibitor JQ1. Hedgehog signaling drives oncogenesis in several cancers,…”
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The genomic landscape and evolution of endometrial carcinoma progression and abdominopelvic metastasis
Published in Nature genetics (01-08-2016)“…Helga Salvesen, Rameen Beroukhim, Scott Carter and colleagues study the evolutionary landscape of endometrial cancer by performing whole-exome sequencing of…”
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An in-tumor genetic screen reveals that the BET bromodomain protein, BRD4, is a potential therapeutic target in ovarian carcinoma
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-01-2015)“…High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is the most common and aggressive form of epithelial ovarian cancer, for which few targeted therapies exist. To…”
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Genomic landscape of intracranial meningiomas
Published in Journal of neurosurgery (01-09-2016)“…Meningiomas are the most common primary intracranial neoplasms in adults. Current histopathological grading schemes do not consistently predict their natural…”
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The histone methyltransferase SETDB1 is recurrently amplified in melanoma and accelerates its onset
Published in Nature (London) (24-03-2011)“…Oncogenes BRAF(V600E) and SETDB1 in melanoma Transgenic zebrafish carrying the human oncogene BRAF(V600E) , the most common mutation in melanoma patients,…”
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The RasGAP Gene, RASAL2, Is a Tumor and Metastasis Suppressor
Published in Cancer cell (09-09-2013)“…RAS genes are commonly mutated in cancer; however, RAS mutations are rare in breast cancer, despite frequent hyperactivation of Ras and ERK. Here, we report…”
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