Rameen Beroukhim

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...

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...

SNP panel identification assay (SPIA): a genetic-based assay for the identification of cell lines (2008)

Demichelis, Francesca, Greulich, Heidi, Macoska, Jill A., Beroukhim, Rameen, Sellers, William R., Garraway, Levi, ...

Translational research hinges on the ability to make observations in model systems and to implement those findings into clinical applications, such as the development of diagnostic tools or targeted...

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...

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...

Inferring Loss-of-Heterozygosity from Tumors Without Paired Normals Using High-Density SNP Arrays (2006)

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

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...

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

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

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

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,...

High-Resolution Mapping of Structural Mutations in Prostate Cancer With Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Arrays (1998)

Beroukhim, Rameen

The proposal focused on the systematic mapping of large-scale genetic alterations in prostate cancer, and relating these mutations to prostate cancer progression. To that end, the proposal suggested...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Molecular Characterization of TMPRSS2-ERG Gene Fusion in the NCI-H660 Prostate Cancer Cell Line: A New Perspective for an Old Model1*

Mertz, Kirsten D., Setlur, Sunita R., Dhanasekaran, Saravana M., Demichelis, Francesca, Perner, Sven, Tomlins, Scott, ...

Recent studies have established that a significant fraction of prostate cancers harbor a signature gene fusion between the 5′ region of androgen-regulated TMPRSS2 and an ETS family transcription...

SNP panel identification assay (SPIA): a genetic-based assay for the identification of cell lines

Demichelis, Francesca, Greulich, Heidi, Macoska, Jill A., Beroukhim, Rameen, Sellers, William R., Garraway, Levi, ...

Translational research hinges on the ability to make observations in model systems and to implement those findings into clinical applications, such as the development of diagnostic tools or targeted...

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...

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...

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...

Identifying genotype-dependent efficacy of single and combined PI3K- and MAPK-pathway inhibition in cancer

Sos, Martin L., Fischer, Stefanie, Ullrich, Roland, Peifer, Martin, Heuckmann, Johannes M., Koker, Mirjam, ...

In cancer, genetically activated proto-oncogenes often induce “upstream” dependency on the activity of the mutant oncoprotein. Therapeutic inhibition of these activated oncoproteins can induce...