Molecular genetics of prostate cancer: new prospects for old challenges

MM Shen, C Abate-Shen - Genes & development, 2010 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite much recent progress, prostate cancer continues to represent a major cause of
cancer-related mortality and morbidity in men. Since early studies on the role of the …

Recurrent gene fusions in prostate cancer

C Kumar-Sinha, SA Tomlins, AM Chinnaiyan - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2008 - nature.com
The discovery of recurrent gene fusions in a majority of prostate cancers has important
clinical and biological implications in the study of common epithelial tumours. Gene fusion …

The molecular taxonomy of primary prostate cancer

A Abeshouse, J Ahn, R Akbani, A Ally, S Amin… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
There is substantial heterogeneity among primary prostate cancers, evident in the spectrum
of molecular abnormalities and its variable clinical course. As part of The Cancer Genome …

Integrative genomic profiling of human prostate cancer

BS Taylor, N Schultz, H Hieronymus, A Gopalan… - Cancer cell, 2010 - cell.com
Annotation of prostate cancer genomes provides a foundation for discoveries that can
impact disease understanding and treatment. Concordant assessment of DNA copy number …

Exome sequencing identifies recurrent SPOP, FOXA1 and MED12 mutations in prostate cancer

CE Barbieri, SC Baca, MS Lawrence, F Demichelis… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide and causes over
250,000 deaths each year. Overtreatment of indolent disease also results in significant …

PVT1 dependence in cancer with MYC copy-number increase

YY Tseng, BS Moriarity, W Gong, R Akiyama, A Tiwari… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract 'Gain'of supernumerary copies of the 8q24. 21 chromosomal region has been
shown to be common in many human cancers,,,,,,,,,,,, and is associated with poor …

Spatial genomic heterogeneity within localized, multifocal prostate cancer

PC Boutros, M Fraser, NJ Harding, R De Borja… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Herein we provide a detailed molecular analysis of the spatial heterogeneity of clinically
localized, multifocal prostate cancer to delineate new oncogenes or tumor suppressors. We …

RNA-seq analysis of prostate cancer in the Chinese population identifies recurrent gene fusions, cancer-associated long noncoding RNAs and aberrant alternative …

S Ren, Z Peng, JH Mao, Y Yu, C Yin, X Gao, Z Cui… - Cell research, 2012 - nature.com
There are remarkable disparities among patients of different races with prostate cancer;
however, the mechanism underlying this difference remains unclear. Here, we present a …

Prostate cancer, PI3K, PTEN and prognosis

HM Wise, MA Hermida, NR Leslie - Clinical science, 2017 - portlandpress.com
Loss of function of the PTEN tumour suppressor, resulting in dysregulated activation of the
phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signalling network, is recognized as one of the most …

Lineage analysis of basal epithelial cells reveals their unexpected plasticity and supports a cell-of-origin model for prostate cancer heterogeneity

ZA Wang, A Mitrofanova, SK Bergren… - Nature cell …, 2013 - nature.com
A key issue in cancer biology is whether oncogenic transformation of different cell types of
origin within an adult tissue gives rise to distinct tumour subtypes that differ in their prognosis …