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ArticleCancer discovery2012

Evolutionary pathways in BRCA1-associated breast tumors.

Filipe C Martins, Subhajyoti De, Vanessa Almendro, Mithat Gönen, So Yeon Park, Joanne L Blum, William Herlihy, Gabrielle Ethington, Stuart J Schnitt, Nadine Tung and 4 more

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Article in Cancer discovery, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

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83citing papers in PubMed
10.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed, 156 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Filipe C MartinsDepartments of Medical Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA.
Subhajyoti De
Vanessa Almendro
Mithat Gönen
So Yeon Park
Joanne L Blum
William Herlihy
Gabrielle Ethington
Stuart J Schnitt
Nadine Tung
Judy E Garber
Katharina Fetten
Franziska Michor
Kornelia Polyak
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USHarvard University · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · US

Funding

The Cell-Of-Origin of Human CancersU54CA143798 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI MICHOR, FRANZISKA · 2009 to 2014
$11.2M
Mathematical Models of Cancer Initiation, Progression, and Resistance to TherapyR01GM096190 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI DURRETT, RICK · 2010 to 2013
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA89383NCI NIH HHS U54 CA143798NCI NIH HHS U54CA143798NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM096190
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BRCA1-associated breast tumors display loss of BRCA1 and frequent somatic mutations of PTEN and TP53. Here we describe the analysis of BRCA1, PTEN, and p53 at the single cell level in 55 BRCA1-associated breast tumors and computational methods to predict the relative temporal order of somatic events, on the basis of the frequency of cells with single or combined alterations. Although there is no obligatory order of events, we found that loss of PTEN is the most common first event and is associated with basal-like subtype, whereas in the majority of luminal tumors, mutation of TP53 occurs first and mutant PIK3CA is rarely detected. We also observed intratumor heterogeneity for the loss of wild-type BRCA1 and increased cell proliferation and centrosome amplification in the normal breast epithelium of BRCA1 mutation carriers. Our results have important implications for the design of chemopreventive and therapeutic interventions in this high-risk patient population.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorBRCA1 ProteinBreast NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorFemaleHumansMutationPTEN PhosphohydrolaseTumor Suppressor Protein p53Biomarkers, TumorBRCA1 ProteinBRCA1 protein, humanPTEN PhosphohydrolasePTEN protein, humanTP53 protein, humanTumor Suppressor Protein p53

Identifiers

PMID22628410
PMCPMC3738298
OpenAlexW2105644651

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