- 11/6/23 - 6 forms, 1 itemgroup, 2 items, 1 language
Itemgroup: pht010322

pht010323.v2.p1

1 itemgroup 2 items

pht010324.v2.p1

1 itemgroup 4 items

pht010325.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 2 items

pht010326.v2.p1

1 itemgroup 5 items

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1 itemgroup 9 items
- 11/27/24 - 5 forms, 1 itemgroup, 1 item, 1 language
Itemgroup: IG.elig
Principal Investigator: Theodora S. Ross, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA, and Department of Cancer Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA MeSH: Neoplasms,Breast Neoplasms,Ovarian Neoplasms,Peritoneal Neoplasms,Skin Neoplasms,Esophageal Neoplasms,Thyroid Neoplasms,Urinary Bladder Neoplasms,Endometrial Neoplasms,Fallopian Tube Neoplasms,Melanoma,Testicular Neoplasms,Bile Duct Neoplasms,Lung Neoplasms,Colonic Neoplasms,Adrenocortical Carcinoma,Carcinoma, Renal Cell,Colonic Polyps,Adenomatous Polyposis Coli,Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse,Pheochromocytoma,Paraganglioma,Leiomyoma,Hemangioblastoma,Hyperparathyroidism,Pancreatic Neoplasms,Vulvar Neoplasms,Brain Neoplasms,Liver Neoplasms,Kidney Neoplasms,Prostatic Neoplasms,Glioblastoma,Oncocytoma, renal https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs000942 Despite the potential of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to improve patient diagnosis and care, the empirical value of WGS in the cancer genetics clinic is unknown. We performed WGS on members of two cohorts of cancer genetics patients: those with BRCA1/2 mutations (n = 176) and those without (n = 82). Initial analysis of potentially pathogenic variants (PPVs, defined as nonsynonymous variants with allele frequency 1% in ESP6500) in 163 clinically-relevant genes suggested that WGS will provide useful clinical results. This is despite the fact that a majority of PPVs were novel missense variants likely to be classified as variants of unknown significance (VUS). Furthermore, previously reported pathogenic missense variants did not always associate with their predicted diseases in our patients. This suggests that the clinical use of WGS will require large-scale efforts to consolidate WGS and patient data to improve accuracy of interpretation of rare variants. While loss-of-function (LoF) variants represented only a small fraction of PPVs, WGS identified additional cancer risk LoF PPVs in patients with known BRCA1/2 mutations and led to cancer risk diagnoses in 21% of non-BRCA cancer genetics patients after expanding our analysis to 3209 ClinVar genes. These data illustrate how WGS can be used to improve our ability to discover patients' cancer genetic risks. "Reprinted from doi:10.1016/j.ebiom.2014.12.003, with permission from EBioMedicine."

pht004834.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 5 items

pht004835.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 5 items

pht004836.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 16 items

pht004837.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 5 items
- 1/9/23 - 4 forms, 1 itemgroup, 2 items, 1 language
Itemgroup: pht003322
Principal Investigator: Adam Bass, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Broad Institute, Cambridge MA; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA MeSH: Esophageal Neoplasms https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs000598 The incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has risen 600% over the last 30 years. When coupled to the five-year survival rate of only 15% for this disease, identification of new therapeutic targets for EAC is of great importance. Here, we analyze the mutational spectra identified from the whole genome sequencing of 16 EACs and complete exome sequencing of 149 EAC tumors and matched germline samples. We identify a novel mutation signature marked by high prevalence of A to C transversions at AA*(N) trinucleotides. Notably, the development of EAC is preceded by pathologic intestinal metaplasia of the lower esophagus, Barrett's esophagus, itself a response to injury from gastric-esophageal reflux disease (GERD). Thus, we hypothesize to represent these AA*(N) mutations to a novel signature of GERD-induced mutagenesis. Analysis of the exome data identified 26 genes subject to statistically significant recurrent mutation. Of these 26 genes, only TP53, CDKN2A, SMAD4, and PIK3CA had been previously implicated in EAC. Novel mutations include those targeting chromatin modifying factors and novel candidate contributors to EAC: SPG20, TLR4, ELMO1 and DOCK2. Of these, ELMO1 and DOCK2 are notably direct dimerization partners that act to activate Rac1 to enhance cellular invasiveness, thus generating new hypotheses about the potential for the Rac1 pathway to be a novel target for therapy of EAC. "Reprinted from 'Unraveling the mutational complexity of esophageal adenocarcinoma', with permission from Nature Genetics."

pht003323.v2.p2

1 itemgroup 3 items

pht003324.v2.p2

1 itemgroup 3 items

pht003325.v2.p2

1 itemgroup 5 items
- 10/12/22 - 4 forms, 1 itemgroup, 3 items, 1 language
Itemgroup: pht002221

pht002222.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 2 items

pht002223.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 5 items

Eligibility

1 itemgroup 3 items
- 3/16/24 - 5 forms, 1 itemgroup, 11 items, 1 language
Itemgroup: pht004610

pht004611.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 8 items

pht004607.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 5 items

pht004608.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 5 items

pht004609.v1.p1

1 itemgroup 5 items

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