Mauro Delorenzi

Relationship between estrogen receptor α location and gene induction reveals the importance of downstream sites and cofactors (2009)

Parisi, Fabio, Sonderegger, Bernhard, Wirapati, Pratyaksha, Delorenzi, Mauro, Naef, Felix

Abstract Background To understand cancer-related modifications to transcriptional programs requires detailed knowledge about the activation of signal-transduction pathways and gene expression...

Selecting control genes for RT-QPCR using public microarray data (2009)

Popovici, Vlad, Goldstein, Darlene R, Antonov, Janine, Jaggi, Rolf, Delorenzi, Mauro, Wirapati, Pratyaksha

Abstract Background Gene expression analysis has emerged as a major biological research area, with real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR (RT-QPCR) being one of the most accurate and widely...

Meta-analysis of gene expression profiles in breast cancer: toward a unified understanding of breast cancer subtyping and prognosis signatures (2008)

Wirapati, Pratyaksha, Sotiriou, Christos, Kunkel, Susanne, Farmer, Pierre, Pradervand, Sylvain, Haibe-Kains, Benjamin, ...

Abstract Introduction Breast cancer subtyping and prognosis have been studied extensively by gene expression profiling, resulting in disparate signatures with little overlap in their constituent...

Predicting prognosis using molecular profiling in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer treated with tamoxifen (2008)

Loi, Sherene, Haibe-Kains, Benjamin, Desmedt, Christine, Wirapati, Pratyaksha, Lallemand, Françoise, Tutt, Andrew M, ...

Abstract Background Estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancers (BC) are heterogeneous with regard to their clinical behavior and response to therapies. The ER is currently the best predictor of...

Expression profiling with RNA from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded material (2008)

Oberli, Andrea, Popovici, Vlad, Delorenzi, Mauro, Baltzer, Anna, Antonov, Janine, Matthey, Sybille, ...

Abstract Background Molecular characterization of breast and other cancers by gene expression profiling has corroborated existing classifications and revealed novel subtypes. Most profiling studies...

MAMOT: hidden Markov modeling tool (2008)

Schütz, Frédéric, Delorenzi, Mauro

Summary: Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are probabilistic models that are well adapted to many tasks in bioinformatics, for example, for predicting the occurrence of specific motifs in biological...

Automatic Procedures for Compilation of Promoter sequences and their Evaluation based on Signal Content and Positional Distributions (2007)

Christoph D. Schmid, Viviane Praz, Mauro Delorenzi, Rouaida Perier

Collections of precisely mapped eukaryotic transcription start sites (TSS) are important resources for studying gene control elements and for developing promoter prediction algorithms. The present...

Mutant huntingtin's effects on striatal gene expression in mice recapitulate changes observed in human Huntington's disease brain and do not differ with mutant huntingtin length or wild-type huntingtin dosage (2007)

Kuhn, Alexandre, Goldstein, Darlene R., Hodges, Angela, Strand, Andrew D., Sengstag, Thierry, Kooperberg, Charles, ...

To test the hypotheses that mutant huntingtin protein length and wild-type huntingtin dosage have important effects on disease-related transcriptional dysfunction, we compared the changes in mRNA in...

MADAP, a flexible clustering tool for the interpretation of one-dimensional genome annotation data (2007)

Schmid, Christoph D., Sengstag, Thierry, Bucher, Philipp, Delorenzi, Mauro

A recurring task in the analysis of mass genome annotation data from high-throughput technologies is the identification of peaks or clusters in a noisy signal profile. Examples of such applications...

Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, 1–4 (2007)

Christoph D. Schmid, Thierry Sengstag, Mauro Delorenzi

MADAP, a flexible clustering tool for the interpretation of one-dimensional genome annotation data

Regional and cellular gene expression changes in human Huntington's disease brain (2006)

Hodges, Angela, Strand, Andrew D., Aragaki, Aaron K., Kuhn, Alexandre, Sengstag, Thierry, Hughes, Gareth, ...

Huntington's disease (HD) pathology is well understood at a histological level but a comprehensive molecular analysis of the effect of the disease in the human brain has not previously been...

Gene Expression Profiling in Breast Cancer: Understanding the Molecular Basis of Histologic Grade To Improve Prognosis (2006)

Sotiriou, Christos, Wirapati, Pratyaksha, Loi, Sherene, Harris, Adrian, Fox, Steve, Smeds, Johanna, ...

Background: Histologic grade in breast cancer provides clinically important prognostic information. However, 30%–60% of tumors are classified as histologic grade 2. This grade is associated with an...

HTPSELEX--a database of high-throughput SELEX libraries for transcription factor binding sites (2006)

Jagannathan, Vidhya, Roulet, Emmanuelle, Delorenzi, Mauro, Bucher, Philipp

HTPSELEX is a public database providing access to primary and derived data from high-throughput SELEX experiments aimed at characterizing the binding specificity of transcription factors. The...

Regional and cellular gene expression changes in human Huntington's disease brain (2006)

Hodges, Angela, Strand, Andrew D., Aragaki, Aaron K., Kuhn, Alexandre, Sengstag, Thierry, Hughes, Gareth, ...

Huntington's disease (HD) pathology is well understood at a histological level but a comprehensive molecular analysis of the effect of the disease in the human brain has not previously been...

Validation and Clinical Utility of a 70-Gene Prognostic Signature for Women With Node-Negative Breast Cancer (2006)

Buyse, Marc, Loi, Sherene, Van't Veer, Laura, Viale, Giuseppe, Delorenzi, Mauro, Glas, Annuska M., ...

Background: A 70-gene signature was previously shown to have prognostic value in patients with node-negative breast cancer. Our goal was to validate the signature in an independent group of patients....

libraries (2005)

Vidhya Jagannathan, Emmanuelle Roulet, Mauro Delorenzi

for transcription factor binding sites

An atlas of human gene expression from massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) (2005)

Jongeneel, C. Victor, Delorenzi, Mauro, Iseli, Christian, Zhou, Daixing, Haudenschild, Christian D., Khrebtukova, Irina, ...

We have used massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) to sample the transcriptomes of 32 normal human tissues to an unprecedented depth, thus documenting the patterns of expression of almost...

The Eukaryotic Promoter Database EPD: the impact of in silico primer extension (2004)

Christoph D. Schmid, Viviane Praz, Mauro Delorenzi, Rouaõèda Peârier

The Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD) is an annotated non-redundant collection of eukaryotic POL II promoters, experimentally de®ned by a transcription start site (TSS). There may be multiple...

The Serine Repeat Antigen (SERA) Gene Family Phylogeny in Plasmodium: the Impact of GC Content, and Reconciliation of Gene and Species Trees (2004)

Bourgon, Richard, Delorenzi, Mauro, Sargeant, Tobias, Hodder, Anthony N., Crabb, Brendan S., Speed, Terence P.

Plasmodium falciparum is the parasite responsible for the most acute form of malaria in humans. Recently, the serine repeat antigen (SERA) in P. falciparum has attracted attention as a potential...

The Serine Repeat Antigen (SERA) Gene Family Phylogeny in Plasmodium: The Impact of GC Content and Reconciliation of Gene and Species Trees (2004)

Bourgon, Richard, Delorenzi, Mauro, Sargeant, Tobias, Hodder, Anthony N., Crabb, Brendan S., Speed, Terence P.

Plasmodium falciparum is the parasite responsible for the most acute form of malaria in humans. Recently, the serine repeat antigen (SERA) in P. falciparum has attracted attention as a potential...

The Eukaryotic Promoter Database EPD: the impact of in silico primer extension (2004)

Schmid, Christoph D., Praz, Viviane, Delorenzi, Mauro, Périer, Rouaïda, Bucher, Philipp

The Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD) is an annotated non‐redundant collection of eukaryotic POL II promoters, experimentally defined by a transcription start site (TSS). There may be multiple...

The Serine Repeat Antigen (SERA) Gene Family Phylogeny in Plasmodium: the Impact of GC Content, and Reconciliation of Gene and Species Trees (2004)

Bourgon, Richard, Delorenzi, Mauro, Sargeant, Tobias, Hodder, Anthony N., Crabb, Brendan S., Speed, Terence P.

Plasmodium falciparum is the parasite responsible for the most acute form of malaria in humans. Recently, the serine repeat antigen (SERA) in P. falciparum has attracted attention as a potential...

Modulation of Angiogenic and Inflammatory Response in Glioblastoma by Hypoxia

Murat, Anastasia, Migliavacca, Eugenia, Hussain, S. Farzana, Heimberger, Amy B., Desbaillets, Isabelle, Hamou, Marie-France, ...

Glioblastoma are rapidly proliferating brain tumors in which hypoxia is readily recognizable, as indicated by focal or extensive necrosis and vascular proliferation, two independent diagnostic...

Validation of Real-Time Methylation-Specific PCR to Determine O6-Methylguanine-DNA Methyltransferase Gene Promoter Methylation in Glioma

Vlassenbroeck, Ilse, Califice, Stéphane, Diserens, Annie-Claire, Migliavacca, Eugenia, Straub, Josef, Di Stefano, Ivano, ...

Epigenetic silencing of the DNA repair protein O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) by promoter methylation predicts successful alkylating agent therapy, such as with temozolomide, in...

FOXC2 controls formation and maturation of lymphatic collecting vessels through cooperation with NFATc1

Norrmén, Camilla, Ivanov, Konstantin I., Cheng, Jianpin, Zangger, Nadine, Delorenzi, Mauro, Jaquet, Muriel, ...

The mechanisms of blood vessel maturation into distinct parts of the blood vasculature such as arteries, veins, and capillaries have been the subject of intense investigation over recent years. In...