The role of alternative splicing in cancer

B Singh, E Eyras - Transcription, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The functional capacity of cells is defined by the transcriptome. Many recent studies have
identified variations in the transcriptome of tumors due to alternative splicing changes, as …

The emerging role of splicing factors in cancer

AR Grosso, S Martins, M Carmo‐Fonseca - EMBO reports, 2008 - embopress.org
Recent progress in global sequence and microarray data analysis has revealed the
increasing complexity of the human transcriptome. Alternative splicing generates a huge …

Alternative splicing and tumor progression

C Ghigna, C Valacca, G Biamonti - Current genomics, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Alternative splicing is a key molecular mechanism for increasing the functional diversity of
the eukaryotic proteomes. A large body of experimental data implicates aberrant splicing in …

Alternative splicing in cancer: noise, functional, or systematic?

RI Skotheim, M Nees - The international journal of biochemistry & cell …, 2007 - Elsevier
Pre-messenger RNA splicing is a fine-tuned process that generates multiple functional
variants from individual genes. Various cell types and developmental stages regulate …

Splicing programs and cancer

S Germann, L Gratadou, M Dutertre… - Journal of Nucleic …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies report splicing alterations in a multitude of cancers by using gene‐by‐
gene analysis. However, understanding of the role of alternative splicing in cancer is now …

Aberrant RNA splicing in cancer; expression changes and driver mutations of splicing factor genes

A Sveen, S Kilpinen, A Ruusulehto, RA Lothe… - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Alternative splicing is a widespread process contributing to structural transcript variation and
proteome diversity. In cancer, the splicing process is commonly disrupted, resulting in both …

The role of splicing factors in deregulation of alternative splicing during oncogenesis and tumor progression

A Shilo, Z Siegfried, R Karni - Molecular & cellular oncology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In past decades, cancer research has focused on genetic alterations that are detected in
malignant tissues and contribute to the initiation and progression of cancer. These changes …

Alternative splicing and cancer: insights, opportunities, and challenges from an expanding view of the transcriptome

S Cherry, KW Lynch - Genes & Development, 2020 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Over the past decade there has been increased awareness of the potential role of
alternative splicing in the etiology of cancer. In particular, advances in RNA-Sequencing …

Splicing and cancer: Challenges and opportunities

PP Coltri, MGP Dos Santos… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer arises from alterations in several metabolic processes affecting proliferation, growth,
replication and death of cells. A fundamental challenge in the study of cancer biology is to …

The functional impact of alternative splicing in cancer

H Climente-González, E Porta-Pardo, A Godzik… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Alternative splicing changes are frequently observed in cancer and are starting to be
recognized as important signatures for tumor progression and therapy. However, their …