In vivo and in vitro models of hepatocellular carcinoma: current strategies for translational modeling

GR Romualdo, K Leroy, CJS Costa, GB Prata… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly incident and deadly malignant
neoplasia, and only a few anti-HCC drugs are currently available. Thus, the development of …

Cancer susceptibility in the mouse: genetics, biology and implications for human cancer

P Demant - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2003 - nature.com
Growing evidence that a large proportion of apparently non-hereditary sporadic cancers
occur in genetically predisposed individuals has emphasized the need to identify the …

A platform for experimental precision medicine: The extended BXD mouse family

DG Ashbrook, D Arends, P Prins, MK Mulligan, S Roy… - Cell systems, 2021 - cell.com
The challenge of precision medicine is to model complex interactions among DNA variants,
phenotypes, development, environments, and treatments. We address this challenge by …

Identification of sex–specific quantitative trait loci controlling alcohol preference in C57BL/6 mice

JA Melo, J Shendure, K Pociask, LM Silver - Nature genetics, 1996 - nature.com
Mice from various inbred strains consume alcoholic beverages at highly reproducible and
strain–specific levels. While most mice consume alcohol in moderate amounts, C57BL/6J …

[HTML][HTML] Methyl deficiency, alterations in global histone modifications, and carcinogenesis

IP Pogribny, VP Tryndyak, L Muskhelishvili, I Rusyn… - The Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
The methyl-deficient model of endogenous hepatocarcinogenesis in rodents is unique in
that dietary omission rather than the addition of chemical carcinogens leads to tumor …

Susceptibility to Aflatoxin B1-related Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Mice and Humans

KA McGlynn, K Hunter, T LeVoyer, J Roush, P Wise… - Cancer Research, 2003 - AACR
The genetic basis of disease susceptibility can be studied by several means, including
research on animal models and epidemiological investigations in humans. The two methods …

Hepatocellular carcinoma as a complex polygenic disease. Interpretive analysis of recent developments on genetic predisposition

F Feo, MR De Miglio, MM Simile, MR Muroni… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2006 - Elsevier
The different frequency of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in humans at risk suggests a
polygenic predisposition. However, detection of genetic variants is difficult in genetically …

The expanded BXD family of mice: a cohort for experimental systems genetics and precision medicine

DG Ashbrook, D Arends, P Prins, MK Mulligan, S Roy… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The challenge of precision medicine is to model complex interactions among DNA variants,
sets of phenotypes, and complex environmental factors and confounders. We have …

Biological basis of differential susceptibility to hepatocarcinogenesis among mouse strains

RR Maronpot - Journal of toxicologic pathology, 2009 - jstage.jst.go.jp
There is a vast amount of literature related to mouse liver tumorigenesis generated over the
past 60 years, not all of which has been captured here. The studies reported in this literature …

Cancer resistance genes in mice: models for the study of tumour modifiers

A Balmain, H Nagase - Trends in genetics, 1998 - cell.com
Smokers have frequently been heard to defend their habit by recounting anecdotes about
relatives or friends who have smoked heavily for many years without developing cancer …