GGR High-Impact Publications
- Dasari A , Morris VK , Allegra CJ, Atreya C, Benson AB, Boland P, Chung K, Copur MS, Corcoran RB, Deming DA, Dwyer A, Diehn M, Eng C, George TJ, Gollub MJ, Goodwin RA, Hamilton SR , Hechtman JF, Hochster H, Hong TS, Innocenti F, Iqbal A, Jacobs SA, Kennecke HF, Lee JJ, Lieu CH, Lenz HJ, Lindwasser OW, Montagut C, Odisio B , Ou FS, Porter L, Raghav K , Schrag D, Scott AJ, Shi Q, Strickler JH, Venook A, Yaeger R, Yothers G, You YN , Zell JA, Kopetz S . ctDNA applications and integration in colorectal cancer: an NCI Colon and Rectal-Anal Task Forces whitepaper. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2020; 17(12):757-770. PubMed ID:32632268; PMCID:PMC7790747.
- Parseghian CM , Loree JM, Morris VK , Liu X, Clifton KK, Napolitano S, Henry JT, Pereira AA, Vilar E , Johnson B , Kee B, Raghav K , Dasari A , Wu J, Garg N , Raymond VM, Banks KC, Talasaz AA, Lanman RB, Strickler JH, Hong DS , Corcoran RB, Overman MJ , Kopetz S . Anti-EGFR-resistant clones decay exponentially after progression: implications for anti-EGFR re-challenge. Ann Oncol. 2019; 30(2):243-249. PubMed ID:30462160; PMCID:PMC6657008.
- Karasaki T, Moore DA, Veeriah S, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Toncheva A, Magno N, Ward S, Bakir MA, Watkins TBK, Grigoriadis K, Huebner A, Hill MS, Frankell AM, Abbosh C, Puttick C, Zhai H, Gimeno-Valiente F, Saghafinia S, Kanu N, Dietzen M, Pich O, Lim EL, Martínez-Ruiz C, Black JRM, Biswas D, Campbell BB, Lee C, Colliver E, Enfield KSS, Hessey S, Hiley CT, Zaccaria S, Litchfield K, Birkbak NJ, Cadieux EL, Demeulemeester J, Van Loo P , Adusumilli PS, Tan KS, Cheema W, Sanchez-Vega F, Jones DR, Rekhtman N, Travis WD, Hackshaw A, Marafioti T, Salgado R, Le Quesne J, Nicholson AG, McGranahan N, Swanton C, Jamal-Hanjani M. Evolutionary characterization of lung adenocarcinoma morphology in TRACERx. Nat Med. 2023; 29(4):833-845. PubMed ID:37045996; PMCID:PMC7614478.
- Kopetz S , Yoshino T, Van Cutsem E, Eng C, Kim TW, Wasan HS, Desai J, Ciardiello F, Yaeger R, Maughan TS, Beyzarov E, Zhang X, Ferrier G, Zhang X, Tabernero J. Encorafenib, cetuximab and chemotherapy in BRAF-mutant colorectal cancer: a randomized phase 3 trial. Nat Med. 2025; 31(3):901-908. PubMed ID:39863775; PMCID:PMC11922750.
- Kopetz S , Murphy DA, Pu J, Ciardiello F, Desai J, Van Cutsem E, Wasan HS, Yoshino T, Saffari H, Zhang X, Hamilton P, Xie T, Yaeger R, Tabernero J. Molecular profiling of BRAF-V600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer in the phase 3 BEACON CRC trial. Nat Med. 2024; 30(11):3261-3271. PubMed ID:39313594; PMCID:PMC11564101.
- Kuboki Y, Fakih M, Strickler J, Yaeger R, Masuishi T, Kim EJ, Bestvina CM, Kopetz S , Falchook GS, Langer C, Krauss J, Puri S, Cardona P, Chan E, Varrieur T, Mukundan L, Anderson A, Tran Q, Hong DS . Sotorasib with panitumumab in chemotherapy-refractory KRASG12C-mutated colorectal cancer: a phase 1b trial. Nat Med. 2024; 30(1):265-270. PubMed ID:38177853; PMCID:PMC11135132.
- Wang R, Dang M, Harada K, Han G, Wang F, Pool Pizzi M, Zhao M, Tatlonghari G, Zhang S, Hao D, Lu Y , Zhao S, Badgwell BD , Blum Murphy M , Shanbhag N, Estrella JS, Roy-Chowdhuri S , Abdelhakeem AAF, Wang Y, Peng G , Hanash S , Calin GA , Song X, Chu Y, Zhang J, Li M, Chen K , Lazar AJ , Futreal A , Song S , Ajani JA , Wang L . Single-cell dissection of intratumoral heterogeneity and lineage diversity in metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma. Nat Med. 2021; 27(1):141-151. PubMed ID:33398161; PMCID:PMC8074162.
- Al Bakir M, Huebner A, Martínez-Ruiz C, Grigoriadis K, Watkins TBK, Pich O, Moore DA, Veeriah S, Ward S, Laycock J, Johnson D, Rowan A, Razaq M, Akther M, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Prymas P, Toncheva A, Hessey S, Dietzen M, Colliver E, Frankell AM, Bunkum A, Lim EL, Karasaki T, Abbosh C, Hiley CT, Hill MS, Cook DE, Wilson GA, Salgado R, Nye E, Stone RK, Fennell DA, Price G, Kerr KM, Naidu B, Middleton G, Summers Y, Lindsay CR, Blackhall FH, Cave J, Blyth KG, Nair A, Ahmed A, Taylor MN, Procter AJ, Falzon M, Lawrence D, Navani N, Thakrar RM, Janes SM, Papadatos-Pastos D, Forster MD, Lee SM, Ahmad T, Quezada SA, Peggs KS, Van Loo P , Dive C, Hackshaw A, Birkbak NJ, Zaccaria S, Jamal-Hanjani M, McGranahan N, Swanton C. The evolution of non-small cell lung cancer metastases in TRACERx. Nature. 2023; 616(7957):534-542. PubMed ID:37046095; PMCID:PMC10115651.
- Amit M , Takahashi H, Dragomir MP, Lindemann A, Gleber-Netto FO, Pickering CR , Anfossi S, Osman AA , Cai Y, Wang R, Knutsen E, Shimizu M, Ivan C, Rao X, Wang J , Silverman DA, Tam S, Zhao M, Caulin C, Zinger A, Tasciotti E, Dougherty PM , El-Naggar A , Calin GA , Myers JN . Loss of p53 drives neuron reprogramming in head and neck cancer. Nature. 2020; 578(7795):449-454. PubMed ID:32051587; PMCID:PMC9723538.
- Frankell AM, Dietzen M, Al Bakir M, Lim EL, Karasaki T, Ward S, Veeriah S, Colliver E, Huebner A, Bunkum A, Hill MS, Grigoriadis K, Moore DA, Black JRM, Liu WK, Thol K, Pich O, Watkins TBK, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Cook DE, Salgado R, Wilson GA, Bailey C, Angelova M, Bentham R, Martínez-Ruiz C, Abbosh C, Nicholson AG, Le Quesne J, Biswas D, Rosenthal R, Puttick C, Hessey S, Lee C, Prymas P, Toncheva A, Smith J, Xing W, Nicod J, Price G, Kerr KM, Naidu B, Middleton G, Blyth KG, Fennell DA, Forster MD, Lee SM, Falzon M, Hewish M, Shackcloth MJ, Lim E, Benafif S, Russell P, Boleti E, Krebs MG, Lester JF, Papadatos-Pastos D, Ahmad T, Thakrar RM, Lawrence D, Navani N, Janes SM, Dive C, Blackhall FH, Summers Y, Cave J, Marafioti T, Herrero J, Quezada SA, Peggs KS, Schwarz RF, Van Loo P , Miedema DM, Birkbak NJ, Hiley CT, Hackshaw A, Zaccaria S, Jamal-Hanjani M, McGranahan N, Swanton C. The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx. Nature. 2023; 616(7957):525-533. PubMed ID:37046096; PMCID:PMC10115649.
- Islam M, Yang Y, Simmons AJ, Shah VM, Musale KP, Xu Y, Tasneem N, Chen Z, Trinh LT, Molina P, Ramirez-Solano MA, Sadien ID, Dou J, Rolong A, Chen K , Magnuson MA, Rathmell JC, Macara IG, Winton DJ, Liu Q, Zafar H, Kalhor R, Church GM, Shrubsole MJ, Coffey RJ, Lau KS. Temporal recording of mammalian development and precancer. Nature. 2024; 634(8036):1187-1195. PubMed ID:39478207; PMCID:PMC11525190.
- Kumar T, Nee K, Wei R, He S, Nguyen QH, Bai S, Blake K, Pein M, Gong Y, Sei E, Hu M, Casasent AK, Thennavan A, Li J, Tran T, Chen K , Nilges B, Kashikar N, Braubach O, Ben Cheikh B, Nikulina N, Chen H , Teshome M , Menegaz B, Javaid H, Nagi C, Montalvan J, Lev T, Mallya S, Tifrea DF, Edwards R, Lin E, Parajuli R, Hanson S, Winocour S, Thompson A, Lim B, Lawson DA, Kessenbrock K, Navin N . A spatially resolved single-cell genomic atlas of the adult human breast. Nature. 2023; 620(7972):181-191. PubMed ID:37380767; PMCID:PMC11443819.
- Martínez-Ruiz C, Black JRM, Puttick C, Hill MS, Demeulemeester J, Larose Cadieux E, Thol K, Jones TP, Veeriah S, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Toncheva A, Prymas P, Rowan A, Ward S, Cubitt L, Athanasopoulou F, Pich O, Karasaki T, Moore DA, Salgado R, Colliver E, Castignani C, Dietzen M, Huebner A, Al Bakir M, Tanić M, Watkins TBK, Lim EL, Al-Rashed AM, Lang D, Clements J, Cook DE, Rosenthal R, Wilson GA, Frankell AM, de Carné Trécesson S, East P, Kanu N, Litchfield K, Birkbak NJ, Hackshaw A, Beck S, Van Loo P , Jamal-Hanjani M, Swanton C, McGranahan N. Genomic-transcriptomic evolution in lung cancer and metastasis. Nature. 2023; 616(7957):543-552. PubMed ID:37046093; PMCID:PMC10115639.
- Minussi DC, Nicholson MD, Ye H, Davis A, Wang K, Baker T, Tarabichi M, Sei E, Du H, Rabbani M, Peng C, Hu M, Bai S, Lin YW, Schalck A, Multani A , Ma J, McDonald TO, Casasent A, Barrera A, Chen H , Lim B , Arun B , Meric-Bernstam F , Van Loo P, Michor F, Navin NE . Breast tumours maintain a reservoir of subclonal diversity during expansion. Nature. 2021; 592(7853):302-308. PubMed ID:33762732; PMCID:PMC8049101.
- Stroik S, Carvajal-Garcia J, Gupta D, Edwards A, Luthman A, Wyatt DW, Dannenberg RL, Feng W, Kunkel TA, Gupta GP, Hedglin M, Wood R , Doublié S, Rothenberg E, Ramsden DA. Stepwise requirements for polymerases δ and θ in theta-mediated end joining. Nature. 2023; 623(7988):836-841. PubMed ID:37968395; PMCID:PMC10959172.
- Wilkinson AW, Diep J, Dai S, Liu S, Ooi YS, Song D, Li TM, Horton JR, Zhang X, Liu C, Trivedi DV, Ruppel KM, Vilches-Moure JG, Casey KM, Mak J, Cowan T, Elias JE, Nagamine CM, Spudich JA, Cheng X , Carette JE, Gozani O. SETD3 is an actin histidine methyltransferase that prevents primary dystocia. Nature. 2019; 565(7739):372-376. PubMed ID:30626964; PMCID:PMC6511263.
- Xu Z, Lee DS, Chandran S, Le VT, Bump R, Yasis J, Dallarda S, Marcotte S, Clock B, Haghani N, Cho CY, Akdemir KC , Tyndale S, Futreal PA , McVicker G, Wahl GM, Dixon JR. Structural variants drive context-dependent oncogene activation in cancer. Nature. 2022; 612(7940):564-572. PubMed ID:36477537; PMCID:PMC9810360.
- Yaron-Barir TM, Joughin BA, Huntsman EM, Kerelsky A, Cizin DM, Cohen BM, Regev A, Song J, Vasan N, Lin TY, Orozco JM, Schoenherr C, Sagum C, Bedford MT , Wynn RM, Tso SC, Chuang DT, Li L, Li SS, Creixell P, Krismer K, Takegami M, Lee H, Zhang B, Lu J, Cossentino I, Landry SD, Uduman M, Blenis J, Elemento O, Frame MC, Hornbeck PV, Cantley LC, Turk BE, Yaffe MB, Johnson JL. The intrinsic substrate specificity of the human tyrosine kinome. Nature. 2024; 629(8014):1174-1181. PubMed ID:38720073; PMCID:PMC11136658.
- Condic N, Amiji H, Patel D, Shropshire WC, Lermi NO, Sabha Y, John B, Hanson B, Karras GI . Selection for robust metabolism in domesticated yeasts is driven by adaptation to Hsp90 stress. Science. 2024; 385(6707):eadi3048. PubMed ID:39052788; PMCID:PMC11410103.
- Ichino L, Boone BA, Strauskulage L, Harris CJ, Kaur G, Gladstone MA, Tan M, Feng S, Jami-Alahmadi Y, Duttke SH, Wohlschlegel JA, Cheng X , Redding S, Jacobsen SE. MBD5 and MBD6 couple DNA methylation to gene silencing through the J-domain protein SILENZIO. Science. 2021; ():. PubMed ID:34083448; PMCID:PMC8639832.
- Klomp JA, Klomp JE, Stalnecker CA, Bryant KL, Edwards AC, Drizyte-Miller K, Hibshman PS, Diehl JN, Lee YS, Morales AJ, Taylor KE, Peng S, Tran NL, Herring LE, Prevatte AW, Barker NK, Hover LD, Hallin J, Sorokin A, Kanikarla PM, Chowdhury S, Coker O, Lee HM, Goodwin CM, Gautam P, Olson P, Christensen JG, Shen JP , Kopetz S , Graves LM, Lim KH, Wang-Gillam A, Wennerberg K, Cox AD, Der CJ. Defining the KRAS- and ERK-dependent transcriptome in KRAS-mutant cancers. Science. 2024; 384(6700):eadk0775. PubMed ID:38843331; PMCID:PMC11301402.
- Alam H, Tang M, Maitituoheti M, Dhar SS, Kumar M, Han CY, Ambati CR, Amin SB, Gu B, Chen TY, Lin YH, Chen J , Muller FL , Putluri N, Flores ER, DeMayo FJ, Baseler L, Rai K , Lee MG . KMT2D Deficiency Impairs Super-Enhancers to Confer a Glycolytic Vulnerability in Lung Cancer. Cancer Cell. 2020; 37(4):599-617.e7. PubMed ID:32243837; PMCID:PMC7178078.
- Chen H, Liang H . A High-Resolution Map of Human Enhancer RNA Loci Characterizes Super-enhancer Activities in Cancer. Cancer Cell. 2020; 38(5):701-715.e5. PubMed ID:33007258; PMCID:PMC7658066.
- Li X, Wang Y, Deng S, Zhu G, Wang C, Johnson NA, Zhang Z, Tirado CR, Xu Y, Metang LA, Gonzalez J, Mukherji A, Ye J, Yang Y, Peng W, Tang Y, Hofstad M, Xie Z, Yoon H, Chen L, Liu X, Chen S, Zhu H, Strand D, Liang H , Raj G, He HH, Mendell JT, Li B, Wang T, Mu P. Loss of SYNCRIP unleashes APOBEC-driven mutagenesis, tumor heterogeneity, and AR-targeted therapy resistance in prostate cancer. Cancer Cell. 2023; 41(8):1427-1449.e12. PubMed ID:37478850; PMCID:PMC10530398.
- McGrail DJ, Garnett J, Yin J, Dai H, Shih DJH, Lam TNA, Li Y, Sun C, Li Y, Schmandt R, Wu JY, Hu L, Liang Y, Peng G , Jonasch E , Menter D , Yates MS , Kopetz S , Lu KH , Broaddus R, Mills GB, Sahni N , Lin SY . Proteome Instability Is a Therapeutic Vulnerability in Mismatch Repair-Deficient Cancer. Cancer Cell. 2020; 37(3):371-386.e12. PubMed ID:32109374; PMCID:PMC7337255.
- Kopetz S , Guthrie KA, Morris VK , Lenz HJ, Magliocco AM, Maru D , Yan Y, Lanman R, Manyam G, Hong DS , Sorokin A, Atreya CE, Diaz LA, Allegra C, Raghav KP , Wang SE, Lieu CH, McDonough SL, Philip PA, Hochster HS. Randomized Trial of Irinotecan and Cetuximab With or Without Vemurafenib in BRAF-Mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer (SWOG S1406). J Clin Oncol. 2021; 39(4):285-294. PubMed ID:33356422; PMCID:PMC8462593.
- Parseghian CM , Sun R , Woods M, Napolitano S, Lee HM, Alshenaifi J, Willis J , Nunez S, Raghav KP , Morris VK , Shen JP , Eluri M, Sorokin A, Kanikarla P, Vilar E , Rehn M, Ang A, Troiani T, Kopetz S . Resistance Mechanisms to Anti-Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Therapy in RAS/RAF Wild-Type Colorectal Cancer Vary by Regimen and Line of Therapy. J Clin Oncol. 2023; 41(3):460-471. PubMed ID:36351210; PMCID:PMC9870238.
- Raghav K , Ou FS, Venook AP, Innocenti F, Sun R , Lenz HJ, Kopetz S . Acquired Genomic Alterations on First-Line Chemotherapy With Cetuximab in Advanced Colorectal Cancer: Circulating Tumor DNA Analysis of the CALGB/SWOG-80405 Trial (Alliance). J Clin Oncol. 2023; 41(3):472-478. PubMed ID:36067452; PMCID:PMC9870237.
- Tabernero J, Grothey A, Van Cutsem E, Yaeger R, Wasan H, Yoshino T, Desai J, Ciardiello F, Loupakis F, Hong YS, Steeghs N, Guren TK, Arkenau HT, Garcia-Alfonso P, Elez E, Gollerkeri A, Maharry K, Christy-Bittel J, Kopetz S . Encorafenib Plus Cetuximab as a New Standard of Care for Previously Treated BRAF V600E-Mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Updated Survival Results and Subgroup Analyses from the BEACON Study. J Clin Oncol. 2021; 39(4):273-284. PubMed ID:33503393; PMCID:PMC8078423.
- Cao S, Wang JR , Ji S, Yang P, Dai Y, Guo S, Montierth MD, Shen JP , Zhao X , Chen J, Lee JJ, Guerrero PA, Spetsieris N, Engedal N, Taavitsainen S, Yu K, Livingstone J, Bhandari V, Hubert SM, Daw NC , Futreal PA , Efstathiou E , Lim B , Viale A , Zhang J , Nykter M, Czerniak BA , Brown PH , Swanton C, Msaouel P , Maitra A , Kopetz S , Campbell P, Speed TP, Boutros PC, Zhu H, Urbanucci A, Demeulemeester J, Van Loo P , Wang W . Estimation of tumor cell total mRNA expression in 15 cancer types predicts disease progression. Nat Biotechnol. 2022; 40(11):1624-1633. PubMed ID:35697807; PMCID:PMC9646498.
- Dou J, Tan Y, Kock KH, Wang J, Cheng X, Tan LM, Han KY, Hon CC, Park WY, Shin JW, Jin H, Wang Y, Chen H, Ding L, Prabhakar S, Navin N , Chen R, Chen K . Single-nucleotide variant calling in single-cell sequencing data with Monopogen. Nat Biotechnol. 2024; 42(5):803-812. PubMed ID:37592035; PMCID:PMC11098741.
- Gao R, Bai S, Henderson YC, Lin Y, Schalck A, Yan Y, Kumar T, Hu M, Sei E, Davis A, Wang F, Shaitelman SF , Wang JR , Chen K , Moulder S , Lai SY , Navin NE . Delineating copy number and clonal substructure in human tumors from single-cell transcriptomes. Nat Biotechnol. 2021; 39(5):599-608. PubMed ID:33462507; PMCID:PMC8122019.
- Salcedo A, Tarabichi M, Buchanan A, Espiritu SMG, Zhang H, Zhu K, Ou Yang TH, Leshchiner I, Anastassiou D, Guan Y, Jang GH, Mootor MFE, Haase K, Deshwar AG, Zou W, Umar I, Dentro S, Wintersinger JA, Chiotti K, Demeulemeester J, Jolly C, Sycza L, Ko M, Wedge DC, Morris QD, Ellrott K, Van Loo P , Boutros PC. Crowd-sourced benchmarking of single-sample tumor subclonal reconstruction. Nat Biotechnol. 2025; 43(4):581-592. PubMed ID:38862616; PMCID:PMC11994449.
- Wei R, He S, Bai S, Sei E, Hu M, Thompson A, Chen K , Krishnamurthy S , Navin NE . Spatial charting of single-cell transcriptomes in tissues. Nat Biotechnol. 2022; 40(8):1190-1199. PubMed ID:35314812; PMCID:PMC9673606.
- Jeong YS, Eun YG, Lee SH, Kang SH, Yim SY, Kim EH, Noh JK, Sohn BH, Woo SR, Kong M, Nam DH, Jang HJ, Lee HS, Song S , Oh SC, Lee J, Ajani JA , Lee JS . Clinically conserved genomic subtypes of gastric adenocarcinoma. Mol Cancer. 2023; 22(1):147. PubMed ID:37674200; PMCID:PMC10481468.
- Luo L, Yang P, Mastoraki S, Rao X, Wang Y, Kettner NM, Raghavendra AS, Tripathy D , Damodaran S , Hunt KK , Wang J , Li Z , Keyomarsi K . Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies molecular biomarkers predicting late progression to CDK4/6 inhibition in patients with HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer. Mol Cancer. 2025; 24(1):48. PubMed ID:39955556; PMCID:PMC11829392.
- Akagi K , Symer DE , Mahmoud M, Jiang B, Goodwin S, Wangsa D, Li Z, Xiao W, Dunn JD, Ried T, Coombes KR, Sedlazeck FJ, Gillison ML . Intratumoral Heterogeneity and Clonal Evolution Induced by HPV Integration. Cancer Discov. 2023; 13(4):910-927. PubMed ID:36715691; PMCID:PMC10070172.
- Gencel-Augusto J, Su X , Qi Y, Whitley EM, Pant V , Xiong S, Shah V, Lin J, Perez E, Fiorotto ML, Mahmud I, Jain AK , Lorenzi PL , Navin NE , Richie ER , Lozano G . Dimeric p53 Mutant Elicits Unique Tumor-Suppressive Activities through an Altered Metabolic Program. Cancer Discov. 2023; 13(5):1230-1249. PubMed ID:37067911; PMCID:PMC10164062.
- Hsu WH, LaBella KA, Lin Y, Xu P, Lee R, Hsieh CE, Yang L, Zhou A, Blecher JM, Wu CJ, Lin K, Shang X, Jiang S, Spring DJ, Xia Y, Chen P, Shen JP , Kopetz S , DePinho RA . Oncogenic KRAS Drives Lipofibrogenesis to Promote Angiogenesis and Colon Cancer Progression. Cancer Discov. 2023; 13(12):2652-2673. PubMed ID:37768068; PMCID:PMC10807546.
- Huang YH, Chen CW, Sundaramurthy V, Słabicki M, Hao D, Watson CJ, Tovy A, Reyes JM, Dakhova O, Crovetti BR, Galonska C, Lee M, Brunetti L, Zhou Y, Tatton-Brown K, Huang Y, Cheng X , Meissner A, Valk PJM, Van Maldergem L, Sanders MA, Blundell JR, Li W, Ebert BL, Goodell MA. Systematic Profiling of DNMT3A Variants Reveals Protein Instability Mediated by the DCAF8 E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Adaptor. Cancer Discov. 2022; 12(1):220-235. PubMed ID:34429321; PMCID:PMC8758508.
- Kim MP , Li X, Deng J, Zhang Y, Dai B, Allton KL, Hughes TG, Siangco C, Augustine JJ, Kang Y, McDaniel JM, Xiong S, Koay EJ , McAllister F , Bristow CA, Heffernan TP , Maitra A , Liu B , Barton MC , Wasylishen AR, Fleming JB, Lozano G . Oncogenic KRAS Recruits an Expansive Transcriptional Network through Mutant p53 to Drive Pancreatic Cancer Metastasis. Cancer Discov. 2021; 11(8):2094-2111. PubMed ID:33839689; PMCID:PMC8338884.
- Leung W, Teater M, Durmaz C, Meydan C, Chivu AG, Chadburn A, Rice EJ, Muley A, Camarillo JM, Arivalagan J, Li Z , Flowers CR , Kelleher NL, Danko CG, Imielinski M, Dave SS, Armstrong SA, Mason CE, Melnick AM. SETD2 Haploinsufficiency Enhances Germinal Center-Associated AICDA Somatic Hypermutation to Drive B-cell Lymphomagenesis. Cancer Discov. 2022; 12(7):1782-1803. PubMed ID:35443279; PMCID:PMC9262862.
- Yaeger R, Uboha NV, Pelster MS, Bekaii-Saab TS, Barve M, Saltzman J, Sabari JK, Peguero JA, Paulson AS, Jänne PA, Cruz-Correa M, Anderes K, Velastegui K, Yan X, Der-Torossian H, Klempner SJ, Kopetz SE . Efficacy and Safety of Adagrasib plus Cetuximab in Patients with KRASG12C-Mutated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Discov. 2024; 14(6):982-993. PubMed ID:38587856; PMCID:PMC11152245.
- Wang F, Zhang S, Kim TB, Lin YY, Iqbal R, Wang Z, Mohanty V, Sircar K, Karam JA , Wendl MC, Meric-Bernstam F , Weinstein JN , Ding L, Mills GB, Chen K . Integrated transcriptomic-genomic tool Texomer profiles cancer tissues. Nat Methods. 2019; 16(5):401-404. PubMed ID:30988467; PMCID:PMC7337246.
- Akdemir KC , Le VT, Chandran S, Li Y, Verhaak RG, Beroukhim R, Campbell PJ, Chin L, Dixon JR, Futreal PA . Disruption of chromatin folding domains by somatic genomic rearrangements in human cancer. Nat Genet. 2020; 52(3):294-305. PubMed ID:32024999; PMCID:PMC7058537.
- Akdemir KC , Le VT, Kim JM, Killcoyne S, King DA, Lin YP, Tian Y, Inoue A, Amin SB, Robinson FS, Nimmakayalu M, Herrera RE, Lynn EJ, Chan K, Seth S, Klimczak LJ, Gerstung M, Gordenin DA, O'Brien J, Li L , Deribe YL , Verhaak RG, Campbell PJ, Fitzgerald R, Morrison AJ, Dixon JR, Andrew Futreal P . Somatic mutation distributions in cancer genomes vary with three-dimensional chromatin structure. Nat Genet. 2020; 52(11):1178-1188. PubMed ID:33020667; PMCID:PMC8350746.
- Johnson KC, Anderson KJ, Courtois ET, Gujar AD, Barthel FP, Varn FS, Luo D, Seignon M, Yi E, Kim H, Estecio MRH , Zhao D, Tang M, Navin NE , Maurya R, Ngan CY, Verburg N, de Witt Hamer PC, Bulsara K, Samuels ML, Das S, Robson P, Verhaak RGW. Single-cell multimodal glioma analyses identify epigenetic regulators of cellular plasticity and environmental stress response. Nat Genet. 2021; 53(10):1456-1468. PubMed ID:34594038; PMCID:PMC8570135.
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