Genetics of gastric cancer

MH McLean, EM El-Omar - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2014 - nature.com
Gastric cancer remains highly prevalent and accounts for a notable proportion of global
cancer mortality. This cancer is also associated with poor survival rates. Understanding the …

Pan-cancer patterns of DNA methylation

T Witte, C Plass, C Gerhauser - Genome medicine, 2014 - Springer
The comparison of DNA methylation patterns across cancer types (pan-cancer methylome
analyses) has revealed distinct subgroups of tumors that share similar methylation patterns …

RNF43 is frequently mutated in colorectal and endometrial cancers

M Giannakis, E Hodis, X Jasmine Mu, M Yamauchi… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
We report somatic mutations of RNF43 in over 18% of colorectal adenocarcinomas and
endometrial carcinomas. RNF43 encodes an E3 ubiquitin ligase that negatively regulates …

[HTML][HTML] Epstein-Barr virus and nasopharyngeal carcinoma

LS Young, CW Dawson - Chinese journal of cancer, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since its discovery 50 years ago, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been linked to the
development of cancers originating from both lymphoid and epithelial cells. Approximately …

Preexisting oncogenic events impact trastuzumab sensitivity in ERBB2-amplified gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma

J Kim, C Fox, S Peng, M Pusung… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Patients with gastric and esophageal (GE) adenocarcinoma tumors in which the oncogene
ERBB2 has been amplified are routinely treated with a combination of cytotoxic …

[PDF][PDF] Endoscopic gastric cancer screening and surveillance in high-risk groups

IJ Choi - Clinical endoscopy, 2014 - synapse.koreamed.org
Gastric cancer remains a major cancer problem world-wide and future incidence will likely
increase due to rapidly aging population demographics. Population-based screening is …

[HTML][HTML] dendsort: modular leaf ordering methods for dendrogram representations in R

R Sakai, R Winand, T Verbeiren, AV Moere… - F1000Research, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dendrograms are graphical representations of binary tree structures resulting from
agglomerative hierarchical clustering. In Life Science, a cluster heat map is a widely …

Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer–Pathophysiology and clinical management

H Pinheiro, C Oliveira, R Seruca, F Carneiro - Best Practice & Research …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer is an autosomal dominant inherited gastric
cancer syndrome caused by germline alterations in CDH1 (E-cadherin) and CTNNA1 (alpha …

[HTML][HTML] TCGA divides gastric cancer into four molecular subtypes: implications for individualized therapeutics

W Zhang - Chinese journal of cancer, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Gastric cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths in the world. The treatment of gastric
cancer is challenging because of its highly heterogeneous etiology and clinical …

[HTML][HTML] New molecular classification of gastric adenocarcinoma proposed by The Cancer Genome Atlas

M Razzak - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2014 - nature.com
Currently, two histological classification systems are available to characterize gastric
adenocarcinomas, which represents the majority of gastric tumours. The Lauren …