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BMC Cancer | Genetics, genomics and epigenetics

BMC Cancer | Genetics, genomics and epigenetics

BMC Cancer

Genetics, genomics and epigenetics

This section considers articles on all aspects of genome-scale analysis, functional genomics, genetic association studies, pharmacogenomics and epigenetics in relation to cancer biology, diagnosis and therapy.
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  1. Content Type:Research Article

    This study explored the attitudes of patients with advanced cancer towards MTP and return of results, prior to undergoing genomic testing within a research program.
    Authors:Megan C. Best, Nicole Bartley, Chris Jacobs, Ilona Juraskova, David Goldstein, Ainsley J. Newson, Jacqueline Savard, Bettina Meiser, Mandy Ballinger, Christine Napier, David Thomas, Barbara Biesecker and Phyllis Butow
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:753
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  2. Content Type:Research Article

    Expression of human chorionic gonadotropin beta subunit by cancers is extensively documented, yet regulation of the multiple genes that can code for this protein is poorly understood. The aim of the study was ...
    Authors:Aleksandra Śliwa, Marta Kubiczak, Anna Szczerba, Grzegorz Walkowiak, Ewa Nowak-Markwitz, Beata Burczyńska, Stephen Butler, Ray Iles, Piotr Białas and Anna Jankowska
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:746
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  3. Content Type:Research Article

    Gestational choriocarcinoma is a rare malignancy believed to arise from the trophoblast cells of the placenta. Despite the frequently aggressive clinical nature, choriocarcinoma has been routinely curable with...
    Authors:Philip Savage, David Monk, Jose R. Hernandez Mora, Nick van der Westhuizen, Jennifer Rauw, Anna Tinker, Wendy Robinson, Qianqian Song, Michael J. Seckl and Rosemary A. Fisher
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:744
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  4. Content Type:Research Article

    Prognostic markers specific to a particular cancer type can assist in the evaluation of survival probability of patients and help clinicians to assess the available treatment modalities.
    Authors:Deepankar Chakroborty, Maheswara Reddy Emani, Riku Klén, Camilla Böckelman, Jaana Hagström, Caj Haglund, Ari Ristimäki, Riitta Lahesmaa and Laura L. Elo
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:727
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  5. Content Type:Research Article

    Pathogenic variants (PVs) of BRCA genes entail a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer in 50–85% of carriers. Their prevalence in different populations has been previously reported. However, there is scarc...
    Authors:Omar Alejandro Zayas-Villanueva, Luis Daniel Campos-Acevedo, José de Jesús Lugo-Trampe, David Hernández-Barajas, Juan Francisco González-Guerrero, María Fernanda Noriega-Iriondo, Ilse Alejandra Ramírez-Sánchez and Laura Elia Martínez-de-Villarreal
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:722
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  6. Content Type:Research Article

    Ependymal tumors are pathologically defined intrinsic neoplasms originating in the intracranial compartments or the spinal cord that affect both children and adults. The recently integrated classification of e...
    Authors:Shaoyan Xi, Ke Sai, Wanming Hu, Fang Wang, Yinsheng Chen, Jing Wang, Jing Zeng and Zhongping Chen
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:717
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  7. Content Type:Research Article

    The rapid development of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides unprecedented opportunities to study the tumor ecosystem that involves a heterogeneous mixture of cell types. However, the majority of p...
    Authors:Xiaoqing Yu, Y. Ann Chen, Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, Christine H. Chung and Xuefeng Wang
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:715
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  9. Content Type:Research Article

    Genetic profiling of cancers for variations in copy number, structure or expression of certain genes has improved diagnosis, risk-stratification and therapeutic decision-making. However the tumor-restricted na...
    Authors:Jordan Mandel, Huabo Wang, Daniel P. Normolle, Wei Chen, Qi Yan, Peter C. Lucas, Panayiotis V. Benos and Edward V. Prochownik
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:686
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  10. Content Type:Research Article

    Sterol-regulatory element binding protein 1 (SREBP1), an intracellular cholesterol sensor located in the endoplasmic reticulum, regulates the intracellular cholesterol by the Insig-Srebp-Scap pathway. Over-exp...
    Authors:Yuyan Gao, Xianxiu Nan, Xinjue Shi, Xiaoqin Mu, Binbin Liu, Huifen Zhu, Bingqing Yao, Xinyi Liu, Tianyue Yang, Yiting Hu and Shulin Liu
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:685
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  11. Content Type:Research Article

    Canonical WNT signalling plays a critical role in the regulation of ovarian development; mis-regulation of this key pathway in the adult ovary is associated with subfertility and tumourigenesis. The roles of A...
    Authors:Noha-Ehssan Mohamed, Trevor Hay, Karen R. Reed, Matthew J. Smalley and Alan R. Clarke
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:677
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  12. Content Type:Research Article

    Analysis of melanomas for actionable mutations has become the standard of care. Recently, a classification scheme has been proposed that categorizes BRAF mutations based on their mechanisms for activation of the ...
    Authors:Parvez M. Lokhandwala, Li-Hui Tseng, Erika Rodriguez, Gang Zheng, Aparna Pallavajjalla, Christopher D. Gocke, James R. Eshleman and Ming-Tseh Lin
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:665
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  13. Content Type:Study Protocol

    Studies have consistently indicated that the majority of individuals meeting the US Prevention Services Task Force guidelines for genetic testing have not had genetic counseling or testing. Despite increased a...
    Authors:Nadine Rayes, Deborah J. Bowen, Tara Coffin, Denise Nebgen, Christine Peterson, Mark F. Munsell, Kathleen Gavin, Rebecca Lechner, Jamie Crase, Deborah Polinsky, Iris Romero, Stephanie V. Blank, Douglas A. Levine, Barbara M. Norquist, Elizabeth M. Swisher and Karen H. Lu
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:648
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  14. Content Type:Research Article

    Zinc-finger E-box binding homeobox 1 (ZEB-1) plays crucial roles in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition during tumor carcinogenesis. Published studies have examined the potential value of ZEB-1 as a biomarker...
    Authors:Borong Chen, Baisheng Chen, Zhipeng Zhu, Weipeng Ye, Junjie Zeng, Gang Liu, Shengjie Wang, Jin Gao, Guoxing Xu and Zhengjie Huang
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:635
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  16. Content Type:Research Article

    Hereditary cancer syndromes have inherited germline mutations which predispose to benign and malignant tumors. Understanding of the molecular causes in hereditary cancer syndromes has advanced cancer treatment...
    Authors:Yanting Jiang, Yue Sun, Jiandong Hu, Nan Yu, Hui Liu, Jiankun Fan, Xuelian Ning, Yilan Li, Baogang Liu, Yihua Sun, Jinwei Zhang, Xiaohong Qiu, Songbin Fu, Chunshui Zhou and Hui Xu
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:613
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  17. Content Type:Research Article

    Chemo-resistance is one of the major challenges in the therapy of small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Multiple mechanisms are thought to be involved in chemo-resistance during SCLC treatment, but unfortunately, the...
    Authors:Jinzhi Lai, Hainan Yang, Yanyang Zhu, Mei Ruan, Yayu Huang and Qiuyu Zhang
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:602
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  18. Content Type:Case Report

    Pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma (SC) consists of both carcinomatous and sarcomatous tumors with high degree of malignancy, rapid progression, and poor prognosis. However, little is known regarding how pulmonar...
    Authors:Jianjun Ge, Bin Yao, Jia Huang, Xue Wu, Hua Bao, Qiuxiang Ou, Yang W. Shao and Jun Chen
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:592
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  19. Content Type:Research Article

    Research into Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms is heterogeneous. In addition, no systematization of studies of polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET) or primary myelof...
    Authors:Mónica Mejía-Ochoa, Paola Andrea Acevedo Toro and Jaiberth Antonio Cardona-Arias
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:590
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  21. Content Type:Study Protocol

    Detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is a promising method for postoperative surveillance of lung cancer. However, relatively low positive rate in early stage patients restricts its application. Aberrant...
    Authors:Guannan Kang, Kezhong Chen, Fan Yang, Shannon Chuai, Heng Zhao, Kai Zhang, Bingsi Li, Zhihong Zhang and Jun Wang
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:579
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  22. Content Type:Research Article

    Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a type of breast cancer with a high degree of malignancy. Because of the remarkable biological characteristics of high invasion, metastasis and recurrence, TNBC is often...
    Authors:Cheng Wang, Cheng Xu, Ruijie Niu, Guangfu Hu, Zhangyuan Gu and Zhigang Zhuang
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:577
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  23. Content Type:Research Article

    Using a pathway-focused approach, we aimed to provide a subgroup-specific basis for finding novel therapeutic strategies and further refinement of the risk stratification in pediatric medulloblastoma.
    Authors:Ae Kyung Park, Ji Yeoun Lee, Heesun Cheong, Vijay Ramaswamy, Sung-Hye Park, Marcel Kool, Ji Hoon Phi, Seung Ah Choi, Florence Cavalli, Michael D. Taylor and Seung-Ki Kim
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:571
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  24. Content Type:Research Article

    Published genetic risk scores for breast cancer (BC) so far have been based on a relatively small number of markers and are not necessarily using the full potential of large-scale Genome-Wide Association Studi...
    Authors:Kristi Läll, Maarja Lepamets, Marili Palover, Tõnu Esko, Andres Metspalu, Neeme Tõnisson, Peeter Padrik, Reedik Mägi and Krista Fischer
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:557
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  25. Content Type:Research Article

    Liver function is routinely assessed in clinical practice as liver function tests provide sensitive indicators of hepatocellular injury. However, the prognostic value of enzymes that indicate hepatic injury ha...
    Authors:Ting-Xun Lu, Shuang Wu, Dong-Yan Cai, Ting-Ting Hong, Ying Zhang, Hua-Qiang Gao, Hai-Ying Hua and Xiao-Hong Wu
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:553
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  26. Content Type:Research Article

    Mutated BRCA1/2 genes are associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC). So far most of the identified BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants are single nucleotide variants (SNVs) or insertions/deletions (Inde...
    Authors:Wen-Ming Cao, Ya-Bing Zheng, Yun Gao, Xiao-Wen Ding, Yan Sun, Yuan Huang, Cai-Jin Lou, Zhi-Wen Pan, Guang Peng and Xiao-Jia Wang
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:551
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  27. Content Type:Research Article

    Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death in women worldwide. Despite extensive studies in all areas of basic, clinical and applied research, accurate prognosis remains elusive, thus leading to ...
    Authors:Mariana Bustamante Eduardo, Vlad Popovici, Sara Imboden, Stefan Aebi, Nadja Ballabio, Hans Jörg Altermatt, Andreas Günthert and Rolf Jaggi
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:549
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  28. Content Type:Research Article

    The understanding of the molecular biology of pediatric neuronal and mixed neuronal-glial brain tumors is still insufficient due to low frequency and heterogeneity of those lesions which comprise several subty...
    Authors:Magdalena Zakrzewska, Renata Gruszka, Konrad Stawiski, Wojciech Fendler, Joanna Kordacka, Wiesława Grajkowska, Paweł Daszkiewicz, Paweł P. Liberski and Krzysztof Zakrzewski
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:544
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  29. Content Type:Research Article

    Hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes are responsible for approximately 5–10% of all diagnosed cancer cases. In the past, single-gene analysis of specific high risk genes was used for the determination of...
    Authors:Georgios N. Tsaousis, Eirini Papadopoulou, Angela Apessos, Konstantinos Agiannitopoulos, Georgia Pepe, Stavroula Kampouri, Nikolaos Diamantopoulos, Theofanis Floros, Rodoniki Iosifidou, Ourania Katopodi, Anna Koumarianou, Christos Markopoulos, Konstantinos Papazisis, Vasileios Venizelos, Ioannis Xanthakis, Grigorios Xepapadakis…
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:535
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  30. Content Type:Research Article

    C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) has attracted wide concern for its critical role in the progression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Several studies have demonstrated that CCR5 affects...
    Authors:Shuyuan Liu, Jun Chen, Zhiling Yan, Shuying Dai, Chuanyin Li, Yufeng Yao and Li Shi
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:525
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  31. Content Type:Research Article

    Patients with lymph node metastasis-negative (pN0) invasive breast cancer have favorable outcomes following initial treatment. However, false negatives which occur during routine histologic examination of lymp...
    Authors:Ryoko Kikuchi-Koike, Kazunori Nagasaka, Hitoshi Tsuda, Yasuyuki Ishii, Masaru Sakamoto, Yoshihiro Kikuchi, Shiho Fukui, Yuko Miyagawa, Haruko Hiraike, Takayuki Kobayashi, Takayuki Kinoshita, Yae Kanai, Tatsuhiro Shibata, Issei Imoto, Johji Inazawa, Osamu Matsubara…
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:521
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  32. Content Type:Research Article

    Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) is the most frequent lymphoproliferative disorder in western countries and is characterized by a remarkable clinical heterogeneity. During the last decade, multiple genomic s...
    Authors:Adrián Mosquera Orgueira, Beatriz Antelo Rodríguez, Natalia Alonso Vence, José Ángel Díaz Arias, Nicolás Díaz Varela, Manuel Mateo Pérez Encinas, Catarina Allegue Toscano, Elena María Goiricelaya Seco, Ángel Carracedo Álvarez and José Luis Bello López
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:515
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  33. Content Type:Research Article

    Deletion of the CDKN2A locus is centrally involved in the development of several malignancies. In malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), it is one of the most frequently reported genomic alteration. MPM is strongl...
    Authors:Eeva Kettunen, Sauli Savukoski, Kaisa Salmenkivi, Tom Böhling, Esa Vanhala, Eeva Kuosma, Sisko Anttila and Henrik Wolff
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:507
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  34. Content Type:Study Protocol

    Breast cancer ranks first in women, and is the second cause of death in this gender. In addition to genetics, the environment contributes to the development of the disease, although the factors involved are no...
    Authors:Julio Plaza-Díaz, Ana I. Álvarez-Mercado, Carmen M Ruiz-Marín, Iris Reina-Pérez, Alejandro J. Pérez-Alonso, María Belén Sánchez-Andujar, Pablo Torné, Tania Gallart-Aragón, María Teresa Sánchez-Barrón, Saturnino Reyes Lartategui, Federico García, Natalia Chueca, Ana Moreno-Delgado, Katia Torres-Martínez, María José Sáez-Lara, Cándido Robles-Sánchez…
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:495
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  35. Content Type:Research Article

    Telomere genetics has recently been emerged as an important field in molecular oncology. Various genome-wide association studies in different population groups have revealed that polymorphisms in Telomere main...
    Authors:Gh. Rasool Bhat, Amrita Bhat, Sonali Verma, Itty Sethi, Ruchi Shah, Varun Sharma, Khursheed A. Dar, Deepak Abrol, Subiya Kaneez, Sandeep Kaul, Ramesh Ganju and Rakesh Kumar
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:493
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  36. Content Type:Research Article

    The relationship between polymorphisms in vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and gastric cancer is still inconclusive. We investigated whether there is an association between VEGF genetic polymorphisms ...
    Authors:Yeon-Ji Kim, Woo Chul/ Chung, Kyong-Hwa Jun and Hyung-Min Chin
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:483
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  37. Content Type:Research Article

    Recent studies have extensively investigated the role of miRNAs in colorectal cancer (CRC), and several associations have been reported. In addition, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in promoter regions ...
    Authors:Eun-Gyo Kim, Jung Oh Kim, Han Sung Park, Chang Soo Ryu, Jisu Oh, Hak Hoon Jun, Jong Woo Kim and Nam Keun Kim
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:480
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  38. Content Type:Research Article

    Gene variants are dependable and sensitive biomarkers for target-specific therapies in breast cancer (BC). However, detection of mutations within tissues has many limitations. Plasma circulating free DNA (cfDN...
    Authors:Xin Yang, Kuo Zhang, Caiji Zhang, Rongxue Peng and Chengming Sun
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:465
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  40. Content Type:Research Article

    Helicobacter pylori infection is recognized as the main risk factor for gastric cancer (GC), the fifth most common neoplasia worldwide. H. pylori interacts with the immune system, disrupting the cytokine network ...
    Authors:Cecilia Martínez-Campos, Kirvis Torres-Poveda, Margarita Camorlinga-Ponce, Lourdes Flores-Luna, Carmen Maldonado-Bernal, Vicente Madrid-Marina and Javier Torres
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:453
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  41. Content Type:Research Article

    Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal malignancies and is not a clinically homogeneous disease, but subsets of patients with distinct prognosis and response to therapy can be identi...
    Authors:Maria Cristina Curia, Fabiana Fantini, Rossano Lattanzio, Francesca Tavano, Francesco Di Mola, Mauro Piantelli, Pasquale Battista, Pierluigi Di Sebastiano and Alessandro Cama
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:452
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  42. Content Type:Research Article

    TIMP-2 gene plays an important role in the development of breast cancer. The present study was conducted to evaluate whether TIMP-2 gene polymorphisms are associated with breast cancer risk in a Han Chinese cohor...
    Authors:Kai Wang, Guanying Wang, Shangke Huang, Anqi Luo, Xin Jing, Gang Li, Yi Zhou and Xinhan Zhao
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:446
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  43. Content Type:Research Article

    The progress of treatments of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has made it possible to reach a survival rate superior to 80%. However, the treatments lead to several long-term adverse effects, incl...
    Authors:Maxime Caru, Kateryna Petrykey, Simon Drouin, Patrick Beaulieu, Pascal St-Onge, Valérie Lemay, Laurence Bertout, Caroline Laverdiere, Gregor Andelfinger, Maja Krajinovic, Daniel Sinnett and Daniel Curnier
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:443
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  44. Content Type:Research Article

    Several subunits of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex are implicated in both cancer and neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). Though there is no clinical evidence for an increased tumor risk in individual...
    Authors:Bernt Popp, Abbas Agaimy, Cornelia Kraus, Karl X. Knaup, Arif B. Ekici, Steffen Uebe, André Reis, Michael Wiesener and Christiane Zweier
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:435
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  46. Content Type:Research Article

    Wilms’ tumor is also called nephroblastoma and is the most common pediatric renal cancer. Several genetic and epigenetic factors have been found to account for the development of Wilms’ tumor. MiRNAs play impo...
    Authors:Zhuo Liu, Feng He, Shengrong OuYang, Yuanyuan Li, Feifei Ma, Huibo Chang, Dingding Cao and Jianxin Wu
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:405
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  47. Content Type:Technical Advance

    With the introduction of Olaparib treatment for BRCA-deficient recurrent ovarian cancer, testing for somatic and/or germline mutations in BRCA1/2 genes in tumor tissues became essential for treatment decisions. I...
    Authors:Falk Zakrzewski, Laura Gieldon, Andreas Rump, Michael Seifert, Konrad Grützmann, Alexander Krüger, Sina Loos, Silke Zeugner, Karl Hackmann, Joseph Porrmann, Johannes Wagner, Karin Kast, Pauline Wimberger, Gustavo Baretton, Evelin Schröck, Daniela Aust…
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:396
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  48. Content Type:Research Article

    The impact of Tet oncogene family member 2 (TET2) mutations on the prognosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is still controversial. A meta analysis is needed in order to assess the prognostic significance of TET...
    Authors:Ruiqi Wang, Xiaoning Gao and Li Yu
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:389
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  49. Content Type:Research Article

    Gene expression profiling provides key information for prognosis of breast cancer to establish treatment strategy. However, the genetic assessment should be available before induction of treatment to be useful...
    Authors:Jeeyeon Lee, Eun Hye Lee, Ho Yong Park, Wan Wook Kim, Ryu Kyung Lee, Yee Soo Chae, Soo Jung Lee, Jee-Eun Kim, Byeong-il Kang, Jee Young Park, Ji-Young Park and Jin Hyang Jung
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:388
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  50. Content Type:Research Article

    Intratumoral epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutational heterogeneity is yet controversial in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Single-cell analysis provides the genetic profile of single cance...
    Authors:Longhua Guo, Zhihong Chen, Chongrui Xu, Xuchao Zhang, Honghong Yan, Jian Su, Jinji Yang, Zhi Xie, Weibang Guo, Feng Li, Yilong Wu and Qing Zhou
    Citation:BMC Cancer 2019 19:369
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