Human germ cell tumors are developmental cancers: impact of epigenetics on pathobiology and clinic

J Lobo, AJM Gillis, C Jerónimo, R Henrique… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Current (high throughput omics-based) data support the model that human (malignant) germ
cell tumors are not initiated by somatic mutations, but, instead through a defined locked …

Oxidative stress and alterations in DNA methylation: two sides of the same coin in reproduction

YJR Menezo, E Silvestris, B Dale, K Elder - Reproductive biomedicine …, 2016 - Elsevier
The negative effect of oxidative stress on the human reproductive process is no longer a
matter for debate. Oxidative stress affects female and male gametes and the developmental …

STAG mutations in cancer

L Romero-Pérez, D Surdez, E Brunet, O Delattre… - Trends in cancer, 2019 - cell.com
Stromal Antigen 1 and 2 (STAG1/2) are key subunits of the cohesin complex that mediate
sister chromatid cohesion, DNA repair, transcriptional regulation, and genome topology …

Epigenetic drugs and their molecular targets in testicular germ cell tumours

S Jostes, D Nettersheim, H Schorle - Nature Reviews Urology, 2019 - nature.com
Current treatment regimens for type II testicular germ cell tumours (TGCTs) achieve cure
rates of≥ 95%; however, 1–5% of TGCTs develop resistance to standard platinum-based …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetics and testicular germ cell tumors

R Buljubašić, M Buljubašić, AK Bojanac, M Ulamec… - Gene, 2018 - Elsevier
Malignant testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) are the most frequent testicular cancers in
Caucasian males, develo** at the most productive age of man. We are briefly reviewing …

The epigenetics of testicular germ cell tumors: Looking for novel disease biomarkers

AL Costa, J Lobo, C Jerónimo, R Henrique - Epigenomics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) are a group of heterogeneous, biologically diverse and
clinically challenging neoplasms. Despite the relatively low incidence and mortality rates, a …

Role of USP13 in physiology and diseases

Q Wang, Z Sun, W **a, L Sun, Y Du… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ubiquitin specific protease (USP)-13 is a deubiquitinase that removes ubiquitin from
substrates to prevent protein degradation by the proteasome. Currently, the roles of USP13 …

Epigenetic regulation of driver genes in testicular tumorigenesis

FE von Eyben, K Kristiansen, DS Kapp, R Hu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In testicular germ cell tumor type II (TGCT), a seminoma subtype expresses an induced
pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) panel with four upregulated genes, OCT4/POU5F1, SOX17 …

Differential methylation EPIC analysis discloses cisplatin-resistance related hypermethylation and tumor-specific heterogeneity within matched primary and metastatic …

J Lobo, V Constâncio, P Leite-Silva, R Guimarães… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) are among the most common solid malignancies in
young-adult men, and currently most mortality is due to metastatic disease and emergence …

Gene-vegetarianism interactions in calcium, estimated glomerular filtration rate, and testosterone identified in genome-wide analysis across 30 biomarkers

M Francis, KE Westerman, AK Manning, K Ye - Plos Genetics, 2024 - journals.plos.org
We examined the associations of vegetarianism with metabolic biomarkers using traditional
and genetic epidemiology. First, we addressed inconsistencies in self-reported …