Matthew Meyerson

Predicting drug susceptibility of non-small cell lung cancers based on genetic lesions. (2009)

Sos, Martin L., Michel, Kathrin, Zander, Thomas, Weiss, Jonathan, Frommolt, Peter, Peifer, Martin, ...

Somatic genetic alterations in cancers have been linked with response to targeted therapeutics by creation of specific dependency on activated oncogenic signaling pathways. However, no tools...

Somatic mutations affect key pathways in lung adenocarcinoma (2008)

Ding, Li, Getz, Gad, Wheeler, David A., Mardis, Elaine R., McLellan, Michael D., Cibulskis, Kristian, ...

Determining the genetic basis of cancer requires comprehensive analyses of large collections of histopathologically well- classified primary tumours. Here we report the results of a collaborative...

Genomic Approaches to Lung Cancer (2008)

Roman K. Thomas, Matthew Meyerson

Abstract The last decade has seen remarkable success in clinical targeting of activated oncogenes in cancer.We have applied gene expression profiling, high-density single-nucleotide polymorphism...

Major copy proportion analysis of tumor samples using SNP arrays (2008)

Li, Cheng, Beroukhim, Rameen, Weir, Barbara A, Winckler, Wendy, Garraway, Levi A, Sellers, William R, ...

Abstract Background Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most common genetic variations in the human genome and are useful as genomic markers. Oligonucleotide SNP microarrays have been...

Transcriptional Profiling Identifies Cyclin D1 as a Critical Downstream Effector of Mutant Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling Susumu Kobayashi, 1 (2008)

Takeshi Shimamura, Stefano Monti, Ulrich Steidl, Christopher J. Hetherington, Todd Golub, Matthew Meyerson, ...

Activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase domain determine responsiveness to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients with advanced non–small cell lung...

The kinesin KIF1B{beta} acts downstream from EglN3 to induce apoptosis and is a potential 1p36 tumor suppressor (2008)

Schlisio, Susanne, Kenchappa, Rajappa S., Vredeveld, Liesbeth C.W., George, Rani E., Stewart, Rodney, Greulich, Heidi, ...

VHL, NF-1, c-Ret, and Succinate Dehydrogenase Subunits B and D act on a developmental apoptotic pathway that is activated when nerve growth factor (NGF) becomes limiting for neuronal progenitor cells...

BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central Research article Major copy proportion analysis of tumor samples using SNP arrays (2008)

Cheng Li, Rameen Beroukhim, Barbara A Weir, Wendy Winckler, Levi A Garraway, William R Sellers, ...

© 2008 Li et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

Characterizing the cancer genome in lung adenocarcinoma (2007)

Weir, Barbara A., Woo, Michele S., Getz, Gad, Perner, Sven, Ding, Li, Beroukhim, Rameen, ...

Somatic alterations in cellular DNA underlie almost all human cancers(1). The prospect of targeted therapies(2) and the development of high-resolution, genome-wide approaches(3-8) are now spurring...

The multifunctional protein p54nrb/PSF recruits the exonuclease XRN2 to facilitate pre-mRNA 3' processing and transcription termination (2007)

Kaneko, Syuzo, Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, Meyerson, Matthew, Manley, James L.

Termination of RNA polymerase II transcription frequently requires a poly(A) signal and cleavage/polyadenylation factors. Recent work has shown that degradation of the downstream cleaved RNA by the...

Corrigendum: High-throughput oncogene mutation profiling in human cancer. (2007)

Thomas, Roman K, Baker, Alissa C, Debiasi, Ralph M, Winckler, Wendy, Laframboise, Thomas, Lin, William M, ...

Systematic efforts are underway to decipher the genetic changes associated with tumor initiation and progression1, 2. However, widespread clinical application of this information is hampered by an...

Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Activation in Glioblastoma through Novel Missense Mutations in the Extracellular Domain. (2006)

Lee, Jeffrey C, Vivanco, Igor, Beroukhim, Rameen, Huang, Julie H Y, Feng, Whei L, Debiasi, Ralph M, ...

BACKGROUND: Protein tyrosine kinases are important regulators of cellular homeostasis with tightly controlled catalytic activity. Mutations in kinase-encoding genes can relieve the autoinhibitory...

Epidermal growth factor receptor activation in glioblastoma through novel missense mutations in the extracellular domain (2006)

Lee, Jeffrey C, Vivanco, Igor, Beroukhim, Rameen, Huang, Julie H Y, Feng, Whei L, Debiasi, Ralph M, ...

Background Protein tyrosine kinases are important regulators of cellular homeostasis with tightly controlled catalytic activity. Mutations in kinase-encoding genes can relieve the autoinhibitory...

Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Activation in Glioblastoma through Novel Missense Mutations in the Extracellular Domain (2006)

Jeffrey C. Lee, Igor Vivanco, Rameen Beroukhim, Whei L. Feng, Ralph M. DeBiasi, ...

BackgroundProtein tyrosine kinases are important regulators of cellular homeostasis with tightly controlled catalytic activity. Mutations in kinase-encoding genes can relieve the autoinhibitory...

Inferring Loss-of-Heterozygosity from Unpaired Tumors Using High-Density Oligonucleotide SNP Arrays (2006)

Rameen Beroukhim, Ming Lin, Yuhyun Park, Ke Hao, Xiaojun Zhao, Levi A. Garraway, ...

Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosomal regions bearing tumor suppressors is a key event in the evolution of epithelial and mesenchymal tumors. Identification of these regions usually relies on...

Oncogenic Transformation by Inhibitor-Sensitive and -Resistant EGFR Mutants (2005)

Heidi Greulich, Tzu-Hsiu Chen, Whei Feng, Pasi A. Jänne, James V. Alvarez, Mauro Zappaterra, ...

Different EGFR mutations are associated with lung cancer. All of the classes can transform fibroblasts and lung epithelial cells, most are sensitive to erlotinib and gefininib, but exon 20 mutations...

Allele-Specific Amplification in Cancer Revealed by SNP Array Analysis (2005)

Thomas LaFramboise, Barbara A. Weir, Xiaojun Zhao, Rameen Beroukhim, Cheng Li, David Harrington, ...

Amplification, deletion, and loss of heterozygosity of genomic DNA are hallmarks of cancer. In recent years a variety of studies have emerged measuring total chromosomal copy number at increasingly...

Oncogenic Transformation by Inhibitor-Sensitive and -Resistant EGFR Mutants (2005)

Heidi Greulich, Tzu-Hsiu Chen, Whei Feng, Pasi A. Jänne, James V. Alvarez, Mauro Zappaterra, ...

Background Somatic mutations in the kinase domain of the epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase gene EGFR are common in lung adenocarcinoma. The presence of mutations correlates with tumor...

Activating mutation in the tyrosine kinase JAK2 in polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, and myeloid metaplasia with myelofibrosis (2005)

Wadleigh, Martha, Ebert, Benjamin L, Wernig, Gerlinde, Huntly, Brian J P, ...

Polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and myeloid metaplasia with myelofibrosis (MMM) are clonal disorders arising from hematopoietic progenitors. An internet-based protocol was...

Using Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Arrays (2004)

Xiaojun Zhao, Cheng Li, J. Guillermo Paez, Koei Chin, Pasi A. Jänne, Tzu-hsiu Chen, ...

Changes in DNA copy number contribute to cancer pathogenesis. We now show that high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays can detect copy number alterations. By hybridizing genomic...

Genome coverage and sequence fidelity of {phi}29 polymerase-based multiple strand displacement whole genome amplification (2004)

Paez, J. Guillermo, Lin, Ming, Beroukhim, Rameen, Lee, Jeffrey C., Zhao, Xiaojun, Richter, Daniel J., ...

Major efforts are underway to systematically define the somatic and germline genetic variations causally associated with disease. Genome‐wide genetic analysis of actual clinical samples is,...

Genomic representations using concatenates of Type IIB restriction endonuclease digestion fragments (2004)

Tengs, Torstein, LaFramboise, Thomas, Den, Robert B., Hayes, David N., Zhang, Jianhua, DebRoy, Saikat, ...

We have developed a method for genomic representation using Type IIB restriction endonucleases. Representation by concatenation of restriction digests, or RECORD, is an approach to sample the...

Loss of heterozygosity and its correlation with expression profiles in subclasses of invasive breast cancers. Cancer Research (2003)

Zhigang C. Wang, Ming Lin, Lee-jen Wei, Cheng Li, Er Miron, Gabriella Lodeiro, ...

Gene expression array profiles identify subclasses of breast cancers with different clinical outcomes and different molecular features. The present study attempted to correlate genomic alterations...

The catalytic subunit of yeast telomerase

Counter, Christopher M., Meyerson, Matthew, Eaton, Elinor Ng, Weinberg, Robert A.

Telomerase is an RNA-directed DNA polymerase, composed of RNA and protein subunits, that replicates the telomere ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. Using a genetic strategy described here, we...

Classification of human lung carcinomas by mRNA expression profiling reveals distinct adenocarcinoma subclasses

Bhattacharjee, Arindam, Richards, William G., Staunton, Jane, Li, Cheng, Monti, Stefano, Vasa, Priya, ...

We have generated a molecular taxonomy of lung carcinoma, the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and worldwide. Using oligonucleotide microarrays, we analyzed mRNA expression levels...

Short interfering RNAs can induce unexpected and divergent changes in the levels of untargeted proteins in mammalian cells

Scacheri, Peter C., Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, Caplen, Natasha J., Wolfsberg, Tyra G., Umayam, Lowell, Lee, Jeffrey C., ...

RNA interference (RNAi) mediated by short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) is a widely used method to analyze gene function. To use RNAi knockdown accurately to infer gene function, it is essential to...

Genome coverage and sequence fidelity of φ29 polymerase-based multiple strand displacement whole genome amplification

Paez, J. Guillermo, Lin, Ming, Beroukhim, Rameen, Lee, Jeffrey C., Zhao, Xiaojun, Richter, Daniel J., ...

Major efforts are underway to systematically define the somatic and germline genetic variations causally associated with disease. Genome-wide genetic analysis of actual clinical samples is, however,...

Genomic representations using concatenates of Type IIB restriction endonuclease digestion fragments

Tengs, Torstein, LaFramboise, Thomas, Den, Robert B., Hayes, David N., Zhang, Jianhua, DebRoy, Saikat, ...

We have developed a method for genomic representation using Type IIB restriction endonucleases. Representation by concatenation of restriction digests, or RECORD, is an approach to sample the...

The Parafibromin Tumor Suppressor Protein Is Part of a Human Paf1 Complex

Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, Hughes, Christina M., Nannepaga, Suraj J., Shanmugam, Kalai Selvi, Copeland, Terry D., Guszczynski, Tad, ...

Parafibromin, the product of the HRPT2 (hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor syndrome 2) tumor suppressor gene, is the human homologue of yeast Cdc73, part of the yeast RNA polymerase II/Paf1 complex known...

Menin and MLL cooperatively regulate expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors

Milne, Thomas A., Hughes, Christina M., Lloyd, Ricardo, Yang, Zhaohai, Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, Dou, Yali, ...

Mutations in the MEN1 gene are associated with the multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 1 (MEN1), which is characterized by parathyroid hyperplasia and tumors of the pituitary and pancreatic...

Oncogenic Transformation by Inhibitor-Sensitive and -Resistant EGFR Mutants

Greulich, Heidi, Chen, Tzu-Hsiu, Feng, Whei, Jänne, Pasi A, Alvarez, James V, Zappaterra, Mauro, ...

Different EGFR mutations are associated with lung cancer. All of the classes can transform fibroblasts and lung epithelial cells, most are sensitive to erlotinib and gefininib, but exon 20 mutations...

Allele-Specific Amplification in Cancer Revealed by SNP Array Analysis

LaFramboise, Thomas, Weir, Barbara A, Zhao, Xiaojun, Beroukhim, Rameen, Li, Cheng, Harrington, David, ...

Amplification, deletion, and loss of heterozygosity of genomic DNA are hallmarks of cancer. In recent years a variety of studies have emerged measuring total chromosomal copy number at increasingly...

Menin regulates pancreatic islet growth by promoting histone methylation and expression of genes encoding p27Kip1 and p18INK4c

Karnik, Satyajit K., Hughes, Christina M., Gu, Xueying, Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, McLean, Graeme W., Xiong, Yue, ...

Menin, the product of the Men1 gene mutated in familial multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1), regulates transcription in differentiated cells. Menin associates with and modulates the histone...

Inferring Loss-of-Heterozygosity from Unpaired Tumors Using High-Density Oligonucleotide SNP Arrays

Beroukhim, Rameen, Lin, Ming, Park, Yuhyun, Hao, Ke, Zhao, Xiaojun, Garraway, Levi A, ...

Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosomal regions bearing tumor suppressors is a key event in the evolution of epithelial and mesenchymal tumors. Identification of these regions usually relies on...

Epidermal growth factor receptor variant III mutations in lung tumorigenesis and sensitivity to tyrosine kinase inhibitors

Ji, Hongbin, Zhao, Xiaojun, Yuza, Yuki, Shimamura, Takeshi, Li, Danan, Protopopov, Alexei, ...

The tyrosine kinase inhibitors gefitinib (Iressa) and erlotinib (Tarceva) have shown anti-tumor activity in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Dramatic and durable responses have...

The catalytic subunit of yeast telomerase

Counter, Christopher M., Meyerson, Matthew, Eaton, Elinor Ng, Weinberg, Robert A.

Telomerase is an RNA-directed DNA polymerase, composed of RNA and protein subunits, that replicates the telomere ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. Using a genetic strategy described here, we...

Classification of human lung carcinomas by mRNA expression profiling reveals distinct adenocarcinoma subclasses

Bhattacharjee, Arindam, Richards, William G., Staunton, Jane, Li, Cheng, Monti, Stefano, Vasa, Priya, ...

We have generated a molecular taxonomy of lung carcinoma, the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and worldwide. Using oligonucleotide microarrays, we analyzed mRNA expression levels...

Short interfering RNAs can induce unexpected and divergent changes in the levels of untargeted proteins in mammalian cells

Scacheri, Peter C., Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, Caplen, Natasha J., Wolfsberg, Tyra G., Umayam, Lowell, Lee, Jeffrey C., ...

RNA interference (RNAi) mediated by short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) is a widely used method to analyze gene function. To use RNAi knockdown accurately to infer gene function, it is essential to...

Genome coverage and sequence fidelity of φ29 polymerase-based multiple strand displacement whole genome amplification

Paez, J. Guillermo, Lin, Ming, Beroukhim, Rameen, Lee, Jeffrey C., Zhao, Xiaojun, Richter, Daniel J., ...

Major efforts are underway to systematically define the somatic and germline genetic variations causally associated with disease. Genome-wide genetic analysis of actual clinical samples is, however,...

Genomic representations using concatenates of Type IIB restriction endonuclease digestion fragments

Tengs, Torstein, LaFramboise, Thomas, Den, Robert B., Hayes, David N., Zhang, Jianhua, DebRoy, Saikat, ...

We have developed a method for genomic representation using Type IIB restriction endonucleases. Representation by concatenation of restriction digests, or RECORD, is an approach to sample the...

The Parafibromin Tumor Suppressor Protein Is Part of a Human Paf1 Complex

Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, Hughes, Christina M., Nannepaga, Suraj J., Shanmugam, Kalai Selvi, Copeland, Terry D., Guszczynski, Tad, ...

Parafibromin, the product of the HRPT2 (hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor syndrome 2) tumor suppressor gene, is the human homologue of yeast Cdc73, part of the yeast RNA polymerase II/Paf1 complex known...

Menin and MLL cooperatively regulate expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors

Milne, Thomas A., Hughes, Christina M., Lloyd, Ricardo, Yang, Zhaohai, Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, Dou, Yali, ...

Mutations in the MEN1 gene are associated with the multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 1 (MEN1), which is characterized by parathyroid hyperplasia and tumors of the pituitary and pancreatic...

Oncogenic Transformation by Inhibitor-Sensitive and -Resistant EGFR Mutants

Greulich, Heidi, Chen, Tzu-Hsiu, Feng, Whei, Jänne, Pasi A, Alvarez, James V, Zappaterra, Mauro, ...

Different EGFR mutations are associated with lung cancer. All of the classes can transform fibroblasts and lung epithelial cells, most are sensitive to erlotinib and gefininib, but exon 20 mutations...

Menin regulates pancreatic islet growth by promoting histone methylation and expression of genes encoding p27Kip1 and p18INK4c

Karnik, Satyajit K., Hughes, Christina M., Gu, Xueying, Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, McLean, Graeme W., Xiong, Yue, ...

Menin, the product of the Men1 gene mutated in familial multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1), regulates transcription in differentiated cells. Menin associates with and modulates the histone...

Allele-Specific Amplification in Cancer Revealed by SNP Array Analysis

LaFramboise, Thomas, Weir, Barbara A, Zhao, Xiaojun, Beroukhim, Rameen, Li, Cheng, Harrington, David, ...

Amplification, deletion, and loss of heterozygosity of genomic DNA are hallmarks of cancer. In recent years a variety of studies have emerged measuring total chromosomal copy number at increasingly...

Epidermal growth factor receptor variant III mutations in lung tumorigenesis and sensitivity to tyrosine kinase inhibitors

Ji, Hongbin, Zhao, Xiaojun, Yuza, Yuki, Shimamura, Takeshi, Li, Danan, Protopopov, Alexei, ...

The tyrosine kinase inhibitors gefitinib (Iressa) and erlotinib (Tarceva) have shown anti-tumor activity in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Dramatic and durable responses have...

Inferring Loss-of-Heterozygosity from Unpaired Tumors Using High-Density Oligonucleotide SNP Arrays

Beroukhim, Rameen, Lin, Ming, Park, Yuhyun, Hao, Ke, Zhao, Xiaojun, Garraway, Levi A, ...

Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosomal regions bearing tumor suppressors is a key event in the evolution of epithelial and mesenchymal tumors. Identification of these regions usually relies on...

Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Activation in Glioblastoma through Novel Missense Mutations in the Extracellular Domain

Lee, Jeffrey C, Vivanco, Igor, Beroukhim, Rameen, Huang, Julie H. Y, Feng, Whei L, DeBiasi, Ralph M, ...

Ingo Mellinghoff and colleagues sequenced theEGFR gene in glioblastoma samples and cell lines and identified missense mutations in the extracellular domain that suggest a new mechanism for EGFR...

The multifunctional protein p54nrb/PSF recruits the exonuclease XRN2 to facilitate pre-mRNA 3′ processing and transcription termination

Kaneko, Syuzo, Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, Meyerson, Matthew, Manley, James L.

Termination of RNA polymerase II transcription frequently requires a poly(A) signal and cleavage/polyadenylation factors. Recent work has shown that degradation of the downstream cleaved RNA by the...

High-throughput sequence analysis of the tyrosine kinome in acute myeloid leukemia

Loriaux, Marc M., Levine, Ross L., Tyner, Jeffrey W., Fröhling, Stefan, Scholl, Claudia, Stoffregen, Eric P., ...

To determine whether aberrantly activated tyrosine kinases other than FLT3 and c-KIT contribute to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) pathogenesis, we used high-throughput (HT) DNA sequence ana-lysis to...

Assessing the significance of chromosomal aberrations in cancer: Methodology and application to glioma

Beroukhim, Rameen, Getz, Gad, Nghiemphu, Leia, Barretina, Jordi, Hsueh, Teli, Linhart, David, ...

Comprehensive knowledge of the genomic alterations that underlie cancer is a critical foundation for diagnostics, prognostics, and targeted therapeutics. Systematic efforts to analyze cancer genomes...

Functional Copy-Number Alterations in Cancer

Taylor, Barry S., Barretina, Jordi, Socci, Nicholas D., DeCarolis, Penelope, Ladanyi, Marc, Meyerson, Matthew, ...

Understanding the molecular basis of cancer requires characterization of its genetic defects. DNA microarray technologies can provide detailed raw data about chromosomal aberrations in tumor samples....

The T790M mutation in EGFR kinase causes drug resistance by increasing the affinity for ATP

Yun, Cai-Hong, Mengwasser, Kristen E., Toms, Angela V., Woo, Michele S., Greulich, Heidi, Wong, Kwok-Kin, ...

Lung cancers caused by activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are initially responsive to small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), but the efficacy of these...

The kinesin KIF1Bβ acts downstream from EglN3 to induce apoptosis and is a potential 1p36 tumor suppressor

Schlisio, Susanne, Kenchappa, Rajappa S., Vredeveld, Liesbeth C.W., George, Rani E., Stewart, Rodney, Greulich, Heidi, ...

VHL, NF-1, c-Ret, and Succinate Dehydrogenase Subunits B and D act on a developmental apoptotic pathway that is activated when nerve growth factor (NGF) becomes limiting for neuronal progenitor cells...

Drug-sensitive FGFR2 mutations in endometrial carcinoma

Dutt, Amit, Salvesen, Helga B., Chen, Tzu-Hsiu, Ramos, Alex H., Onofrio, Robert C., Hatton, Charlie, ...

Oncogenic activation of tyrosine kinases is a common mechanism of carcinogenesis and, given the druggable nature of these enzymes, an attractive target for anticancer therapy. Here, we show that...

Predicting drug susceptibility of non–small cell lung cancers based on genetic lesions

Sos, Martin L., Michel, Kathrin, Zander, Thomas, Weiss, Jonathan, Frommolt, Peter, Peifer, Martin, ...

Somatic genetic alterations in cancers have been linked with response to targeted therapeutics by creation of specific dependency on activated oncogenic signaling pathways. However, no tools...

The tumor suppressor Cdc73 functionally associates with CPSF and CstF 3′ mRNA processing factors

Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit, Nagaike, Takashi, Francis, Joshua M., Kaneko, Syuzo, Glatt, Karen A., Hughes, Christina M., ...

The CDC73 tumor suppressor gene is mutationally inactivated in hereditary and sporadic parathyroid tumors. Its product, the Cdc73 protein, is a component of the RNA polymerase II and...

Highly parallel identification of essential genes in cancer cells

Luo, Biao, Cheung, Hiu Wing, Subramanian, Aravind, Sharifnia, Tanaz, Okamoto, Michael, Yang, Xiaoping, ...

More complete knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer will improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Efforts such as The Cancer Genome Atlas are systematically characterizing the...

HER2YVMA drives rapid development of adenosquamous lung tumors in mice that are sensitive to BIBW2992 and rapamycin combination therapy

Perera, Samanthi A., Li, Danan, Shimamura, Takeshi, Raso, Maria G., Ji, Hongbin, Chen, Liang, ...

Mutations in the HER2 kinase domain have been identified in human clinical lung cancer specimens. Here we demonstrate that inducible expression of the most common HER2 mutant (HER2YVMA) in mouse lung...