A comprehensive survey of genomic alterations in gastric cancer reveals systematic patterns of molecular exclusivity and co-occurrence among distinct therapeutic …

N Deng, LK Goh, H Wang, K Das, J Tao, IB Tan… - Gut, 2012 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Gastric cancer is a major gastrointestinal malignancy for which targeted therapies
are emerging as treatment options. This study sought to identify the most prevalent …

Identification of molecular subtypes of gastric cancer with different responses to PI3-kinase inhibitors and 5-fluorouracil

Z Lei, IB Tan, K Das, N Deng, H Zouridis, S Pattison… - Gastroenterology, 2013 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Almost all gastric cancers are adenocarcinomas, which have
considerable heterogeneity among patients. We sought to identify subtypes of gastric …

New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism

M Horikoshi, H Yaghootkar, DO Mook-Kanamori… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Birth weight within the normal range is associated with a variety of adult-onset diseases, but
the mechanisms behind these associations are poorly understood. Previous genome-wide …

Collagen-related genes influence the glaucoma risk factor, central corneal thickness

EN Vithana, T Aung, CC Khor, BK Cornes… - Human molecular …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Central corneal thickness (CCT) is a risk factor of glaucoma, the most common cause of
irreversible blindness worldwide. The identification of genetic determinants affecting CCT in …

Methylation subtypes and large-scale epigenetic alterations in gastric cancer

H Zouridis, N Deng, T Ivanova, Y Zhu, B Wong… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
Epigenetic alterations are fundamental hallmarks of cancer genomes. We surveyed the
landscape of DNA methylation alterations in gastric cancer by analyzing genome-wide CG …

Regulatory crosstalk between lineage-survival oncogenes KLF5, GATA4 and GATA6 cooperatively promotes gastric cancer development

NY Chia, N Deng, K Das, D Huang, L Hu, Y Zhu… - Gut, 2015 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Gastric cancer (GC) is a deadly malignancy for which new therapeutic strategies
are needed. Three transcription factors, KLF5, GATA4 and GATA6, have been previously …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic variants on chromosome 1q41 influence ocular axial length and high myopia

Q Fan, VA Barathi, CY Cheng, X Zhou, A Meguro… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
As one of the leading causes of visual impairment and blindness, myopia poses a significant
public health burden in Asia. The primary determinant of myopia is an elongated ocular axial …

[HTML][HTML] Large scale international replication and meta-analysis study confirms association of the 15q14 locus with myopia. The CREAM consortium

VJM Verhoeven, PG Hysi, SM Saw, V Vitart, A Mirshahi… - Human genetics, 2012 - Springer
Myopia is a complex genetic disorder and a common cause of visual impairment among
working age adults. Genome-wide association studies have identified susceptibility loci on …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoscale chromatin profiling of gastric adenocarcinoma reveals cancer-associated cryptic promoters and somatically acquired regulatory elements

M Muratani, N Deng, WF Ooi, SJ Lin, M Xing… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Chromatin alterations are fundamental hallmarks of cancer. To study chromatin alterations in
primary gastric adenocarcinomas, we perform nanoscale chromatin immunoprecipitation …

Genetic and structural variation in the gastric cancer kinome revealed through targeted deep sequencing

ZJ Zang, CK Ong, I Cutcutache, W Yu, SL Zhang… - Cancer research, 2011 - AACR
Genetic alterations in kinases have been linked to multiple human pathologies. To explore
the landscape of kinase genetic variation in gastric cancer (GC), we used targeted, paired …