Posts Tagged ‘cancer’

Non-invasive analysis of acquired resistance to cancer therapy by sequencing of plasma DNA

May 4, 2013

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7447/full/nature12065.html

Patients’ Genes Seen as Future of Cancer Care – NYTimes.com

April 29, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/health/patients-genes-seen-as-future-of-cancer-care.html Features new WCMC Belfer building

In Cancer Treatment, New DNA Tools – NYTimes.com

April 28, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/business/in-cancer-treatment-new-dna-tools.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&seid=auto&_r=0

Patients’ Genes Seen as Future of Cancer Care – NYTimes.com

April 23, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/health/patients-genes-seen-as-future-of-cancer-care.html

Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

March 31, 2013

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v45/n4/full/ng.2560.html?WT.ec_id=NG-201304

Absolute quantification of somatic DNA alterations in human cancer

March 17, 2013

Nat Biotechnol. 2012 May;30(5):413-21. doi: 10.1038/nbt.2203. Carter SL, Cibulskis K, Helman E, McKenna A, Shen H, Zack T, Laird PW, Onofrio RC, Winckler W, Weir BA, Beroukhim R, Pellman D, Levine DA, Lander ES, Meyerson M, Getz G.

regulatory cancer drivers

March 11, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/science/new-mutations-discovered-in-melanomas.html
Two papers in Science talking about recurrent mutations in TERT promoter in melanoma.

1) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/957.full
Highly Recurrent TERT Promoter Mutations in Human Melanoma
Franklin W. Huang1,2,3,* Eran Hodis1,3,4,*,Mary Jue Xu1,3,4,Gregory V. Kryukov1,Lynda Chin5,6,Levi A. Garraway1,2,3,†

2) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/959.full
TERT Promoter Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Melanoma
Susanne Horn1,2,Adina Figl1,2,P. Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda1,Christine Fischer3,Antje Sucker2,Andreas Gast1,2,Stephanie Kadel1,2,Iris Moll2,Eduardo Nagore4,Kari Hemminki1,5,Dirk Schadendorf2,*,†,Rajiv Kumar1,*,†

Ready for More 10,000 Cancer Genomes Projects? – ScienceInsider

March 7, 2013

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/03/ready-for-more-10000-cancer-geno.html

Cancer Cell – Epigenetic Abnormalities in Cancer Find a “Home on the Range”

March 4, 2013

https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108(12)00520-X?switch=standard

regulatory cancer drivers

March 1, 2013

Two papers in Science talking about recurrent mutations in TERT promoter in melanoma.

1) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/957.full
Highly Recurrent TERT Promoter Mutations in Human Melanoma
Franklin W. Huang1,2,3,* Eran Hodis1,3,4,*,Mary Jue Xu1,3,4,Gregory V. Kryukov1,Lynda Chin5,6,Levi A. Garraway1,2,3,†

2) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/959.full
TERT Promoter Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Melanoma
Susanne Horn1,2,Adina Figl1,2,P. Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda1,Christine Fischer3,Antje Sucker2,Andreas Gast1,2,Stephanie Kadel1,2,Iris Moll2,Eduardo Nagore4,Kari Hemminki1,5,Dirk Schadendorf2,*,†,Rajiv Kumar1,*,†