Landscape of gene fusions in epithelial cancers: Seq and ye shall find

Genome Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kumar Sinha, Chandan ^a   Kalyana Sundaram, Shanker ^a   Chinnaiyan, Arul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1 [4 [(5 CYCLOPROPYL 1H PYRAZOL 3 YL)AMINO]PYRROLO[2,1 F][1,2,4]TRIAZIN 2 YL] N (6 FLUORO 3 PYRIDINYL) 2 METHYL 2 PYRROLIDINECARBOXAMIDE; BROMODOMAIN INHIBITOR; CRIZOTINIB; GAMMA SECRETASE INHIBITOR; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PAZOPANIB; RAF PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VANDETANIB; ONCOPROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CARCINOMA; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG TARGETING; GENE FUSION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SOLID TUMOR; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CARCINOMA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUSION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; ONCOGENES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84949997929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-015-0252-1     Document Type: Review

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