Greehey CCRI News & Events Archive
Oncologist: Liver tumors in children
July 21, 2008Jason B Litten 1, Gail E Tomlinson Abstract Malignant liver tumors account for slightly >1% of all pediatric malignancies, with roughly 150 new cases of liver tumors diagnosed in the U.S. annually. The embryonal tumor, hepatoblastoma, accounts for t …
Modern Pathology: A subset of cranial fasciitis is associated with dysregulation of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway
June 27, 2008Dinesh Rakheja 1, Jacqulin C Cunningham, Midori Mitui, Ashish S Patel, Gail E Tomlinson, Arthur G Weinberg Abstract Cranial fasciitis, an unusual fibroproliferative lesion that occurs in the scalp of infants, is considered a posttraumatic reactive proc …
GATA factors and androgen receptor collaborate to transcriptionally activate the Rhox5 homeobox gene in Sertoli cells
April 28, 2008Anjana Bhardwaj 1, Manjeet K Rao, Ramneet Kaur, Miriam R Buttigieg, Miles F Wilkinson Abstract How Sertoli-specific expression is initiated is poorly understood. Here, we address this issue using the proximal promoter (Pp) from the Rhox5 homeobox gene. …
Cancer: Twenty years of follow-up among survivors of childhood and young adult acute myeloid leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study
April 21, 2008Daniel A Mulrooney 1, Douglas C Dover, Suwen Li, Yutaka Yasui, Kirsten K Ness, Ann C Mertens, Joseph P Neglia, Charles A Sklar, Leslie L Robison, Stella M Davies, Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Abstract Background: Limited data exist on the comprehens …
Community Genetics: Successful strategies for increasing African American participation in cancer genetic studies: hopeful signs for equalizing the benefits of genetic medicine
April 14, 2008Annette R Patterson 1, Helen Davis, Kristin Shelby, Jerry McCoy, Linda D Robinson, Smita K Rao, Pia Banerji, Gail E Tomlinson Abstract Objective: To determine whether prior success in recruiting African Americans to an in-house cancer genetics registry …
American Journal of Human Genetics: Common breast cancer-predisposition alleles are associated with breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers
April 1, 2008Antonis C Antoniou 1, Amanda B Spurdle, Olga M Sinilnikova, Sue Healey, Karen A Pooley, Rita K Schmutzler, Beatrix Versmold, Christoph Engel, Alfons Meindl, Norbert Arnold, Wera Hofmann, Christian Sutter, Dieter Niederacher, Helmut Deissler, Trinidad C …
Cancer Research: Chromosomal Breakpoints in Primary Colon Cancer Cluster at Sites of Structural Variants in the Genome
March 1, 2008Jordi Camps, Marian Grade, Quang Tri Nguyen, Patrick Hörmann, Sandra Becker, Amanda B. Hummon, Virginia Rodriguez, Settara Chandrasekharappa, Yidong Chen, Michael J. Difilippantonio, Heinz Becker, B. Michael Ghadimi and Thomas Ried Abstract Genomic abe …
Cancer Research: EpCAM and α-Fetoprotein Expression Defines Novel Prognostic Subtypes of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
March 1, 2008Taro Yamashita, Marshonna Forgues, Wei Wang, Jin Woo Kim, Qinghai Ye, Huliang Jia, Anuradha Budhu, Krista A. Zanetti, Yidong Chen, Lun-Xiu Qin, Zhao-You Tang, and Xin Wei Wang Abstract The heterogeneous nature of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and the …
Pediatric Blood & Cancer: Treatment of Wilms tumor relapsing after initial treatment with vincristine, actinomycin D, and doxorubicin. A report from the National Wilms Tumor Study Group
February 1, 2008Marcio Malogolowkin 1, Cecilia A Cotton, Daniel M Green, Norman E Breslow, Elizabeth Perlman, James Miser, Michael L Ritchey, Patrick R M Thomas, Paul E Grundy, Giulio J D’Angio, J Bruce Beckwith, Robert C Shamberger, Gerald M Haase, Milton Donaldson, …
Neoplasia: Comparison of Expression Profiles of Metastatic versus Primary Mammary Tumors in MMTV-Wnt-1 and MMTV-Neu Transgenic Mice1
February 1, 2008Author links open overlay panelShixia Huang*†‡, Yidong Chen§, Katrina Podsypanina Abstract Distant metastases of human breast cancers have been suggested to be more different from each other than from their respective primary tumors, based on expressio …