Jonathan R. Pollack

A Genome-Wide Screen for Promoter Methylation in Lung Cancer Identifies Novel Methylation Markers for Multiple Malignancies (2006)

David S. Shames, Luc Girard, Boning Gao, Mitsuo Sato, Cheryl M. Lewis, Narayan Shivapurkar, ...

BackgroundPromoter hypermethylation coupled with loss of heterozygosity at the same locus results in loss of gene function in many tumor cells. The “rules” governing which genes are methylated...

A DNA microarray survey of gene expression in normal human tissues (2005)

Shyamsundar, Radha, Kim, Young H, Higgins, John P, Montgomery, Kelli, Jorden, Michelle, Sethuraman, Anand, ...

Abstract Background Numerous studies have used DNA microarrays to survey gene expression in cancer and other disease states. Comparatively little is known about the genes expressed across the gamut...

The diagnosis and management of pre-invasive breast disease: Promise of new technologies in understanding pre-invasive breast lesions (2003)

Jeffrey, Stefanie S, Pollack, Jonathan R

Abstract Array-based comparative genomic hybridization, RNA expression profiling, and proteomic analyses are new molecular technologies used to study breast cancer. Invasive breast cancers were...

A transcriptional response to Wnt protein in human embryonic carcinoma cells (2002)

Willert, Jennifer, Epping, Mirjam, Pollack, Jonathan R, Brown, Patrick O, Nusse, Roel

Abstract Background Wnt signaling is implicated in many developmental decisions, including stem cell control, as well as in cancer. There are relatively few target genes known of the Wnt pathway....

Physical mapping of genes in somatic cell radiation hybrids by comparative genomic hybridization to cDNA microarrays (2002)

Lin, Johann Y, Pollack, Jonathan R, Chou, Fan-Li, Rees, Christian A, Christian, Allen T, Bedford, Joel S, ...

Abstract Background Somatic cell mutants can be informative in the analysis of a wide variety of cellular processes. The use of map-based positional cloning strategies in somatic cell hybrids to...

Microarray analysis reveals a major direct role of DNA copy number alteration in the transcriptional program of human breast tumors

Pollack, Jonathan R., Sørlie, Therese, Perou, Charles M., Rees, Christian A., Jeffrey, Stefanie S., Lonning, Per E., ...

Genomic DNA copy number alterations are key genetic events in the development and progression of human cancers. Here we report a genome-wide microarray comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH)...

The diagnosis and management of pre-invasive breast disease: Promise of new technologies in understanding pre-invasive breast lesions

Jeffrey, Stefanie S, Pollack, Jonathan R

Array-based comparative genomic hybridization, RNA expression profiling, and proteomic analyses are new molecular technologies used to study breast cancer. Invasive breast cancers were originally...

Gene expression profiling identifies clinically relevant subtypes of prostate cancer

Lapointe, Jacques, Li, Chunde, Higgins, John P., Van De Rijn, Matt, Bair, Eric, Montgomery, Kelli, ...

Prostate cancer, a leading cause of cancer death, displays a broad range of clinical behavior from relatively indolent to aggressive metastatic disease. To explore potential molecular variation...

A DNA microarray survey of gene expression in normal human tissues

Shyamsundar, Radha, Kim, Young H, Higgins, John P, Montgomery, Kelli, Jorden, Michelle, Sethuraman, Anand, ...

A systematic survey of gene expression in 115 human tissue samples using cDNA microarrays provides a dataset that can be used as a baseline for comparison with expression in diseased tissue.

Correction: A DNA microarray survey of gene expression in normal human tissues

Shyamsundar, Radha, Kim, Young H, Higgins, John P, Montgomery, Kelli, Jorden, Michelle, Sethuraman, Anand, ...

A correction to A DNA microarray survey of gene expression in normal human tissues by R Shyamsundar, YH Kim, JP Higgins, K Montgomery, M Jorden, A Sethuraman, M van de Rijn, D Botstein, PO Brown and...

Array-Based Comparative Genomic Hybridization Identifies Localized DNA Amplifications and Homozygous Deletions in Pancreatic Cancer1*

Bashyam, Murali D, Bair, Ryan, Kim, Young H, Wang, Pei, Hernandez-Boussard, Tina, Karikari, Collins A, ...

Pancreatic cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States, is frequently associated with the amplification and deletion of specific oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes (TSGs),...

Microarray analysis reveals a major direct role of DNA copy number alteration in the transcriptional program of human breast tumors

Pollack, Jonathan R., Sørlie, Therese, Perou, Charles M., Rees, Christian A., Jeffrey, Stefanie S., Lonning, Per E., ...

Genomic DNA copy number alterations are key genetic events in the development and progression of human cancers. Here we report a genome-wide microarray comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH)...

The diagnosis and management of pre-invasive breast disease: Promise of new technologies in understanding pre-invasive breast lesions

Jeffrey, Stefanie S, Pollack, Jonathan R

Array-based comparative genomic hybridization, RNA expression profiling, and proteomic analyses are new molecular technologies used to study breast cancer. Invasive breast cancers were originally...

Gene expression profiling identifies clinically relevant subtypes of prostate cancer

Lapointe, Jacques, Li, Chunde, Higgins, John P., Van De Rijn, Matt, Bair, Eric, Montgomery, Kelli, ...

Prostate cancer, a leading cause of cancer death, displays a broad range of clinical behavior from relatively indolent to aggressive metastatic disease. To explore potential molecular variation...

A DNA microarray survey of gene expression in normal human tissues

Shyamsundar, Radha, Kim, Young H, Higgins, John P, Montgomery, Kelli, Jorden, Michelle, Sethuraman, Anand, ...

A systematic survey of gene expression in 115 human tissue samples using cDNA microarrays provides a dataset that can be used as a baseline for comparison with expression in diseased tissue.

Correction: A DNA microarray survey of gene expression in normal human tissues

Shyamsundar, Radha, Kim, Young H, Higgins, John P, Montgomery, Kelli, Jorden, Michelle, Sethuraman, Anand, ...

A correction to A DNA microarray survey of gene expression in normal human tissues by R Shyamsundar, YH Kim, JP Higgins, K Montgomery, M Jorden, A Sethuraman, M van de Rijn, D Botstein, PO Brown and...

Array-Based Comparative Genomic Hybridization Identifies Localized DNA Amplifications and Homozygous Deletions in Pancreatic Cancer1*

Bashyam, Murali D, Bair, Ryan, Kim, Young H, Wang, Pei, Hernandez-Boussard, Tina, Karikari, Collins A, ...

Pancreatic cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States, is frequently associated with the amplification and deletion of specific oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes (TSGs),...

A Genome-Wide Screen for Promoter Methylation in Lung Cancer Identifies Novel Methylation Markers for Multiple Malignancies

Shames, David S, Girard, Luc, Gao, Boning, Sato, Mitsuo, Lewis, Cheryl M, Shivapurkar, Narayan, ...

John Minna and colleagues report that a group of genes are commonly methylated in primary lung, breast, colon, and prostate cancer.

Gene Expression Patterns in Renal Cell Carcinoma Assessed by Complementary DNA Microarray

Higgins, John P.T., Shinghal, Rajesh, Gill, Harcharan, Reese, Jeffrey H., Terris, Martha, Cohen, Ronald J., ...

Renal cell carcinoma comprises several histological types with different clinical behavior. Accurate pathological characterization is important in the clinical management of these tumors. We describe...

Gene Expression Patterns and Gene Copy Number Changes in Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans

Linn, Sabine C., West, Rob B., Pollack, Jonathan R., Zhu, Shirley, Hernandez-Boussard, Tina, Nielsen, Torsten O., ...

Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is an aggressive spindle cell neoplasm. It is associated with the chromosomal translocation, t(17:22), which fuses the COL1A1 and PDGFβ genes. We determined...

Amplification of Whole Tumor Genomes and Gene-by-Gene Mapping of Genomic Aberrations from Limited Sources of Fresh-Frozen and Paraffin-Embedded DNA

Bredel, Markus, Bredel, Claudia, Juric, Dejan, Kim, Young, Vogel, Hannes, Harsh, Griffith R., ...

Sufficient quantity of genomic DNA can be a bottleneck in genome-wide analysis of clinical tissue samples. DNA polymerase Phi29 can be used for the random-primed amplification of whole genomes,...

A Perspective on DNA Microarrays in Pathology Research and Practice

Pollack, Jonathan R.

DNA microarray technology matured in the mid-1990s, and the past decade has witnessed a tremendous growth in its application. DNA microarrays have provided powerful tools for pathology researchers...

Gene copy number variation spanning 60 million years of human and primate evolution

Dumas, Laura, Kim, Young H., Karimpour-Fard, Anis, Cox, Michael, Hopkins, Janet, Pollack, Jonathan R., ...

Given the evolutionary importance of gene duplication to the emergence of species-specific traits, we have extended the application of cDNA array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) to...

Genomic Profiling Identifies GATA6 as a Candidate Oncogene Amplified in Pancreatobiliary Cancer

Kwei, Kevin A., Bashyam, Murali D., Kao, Jessica, Ratheesh, Raman, Reddy, Edumakanti C., Kim, Young H., ...

Pancreatobiliary cancers have among the highest mortality rates of any cancer type. Discovering the full spectrum of molecular genetic alterations may suggest new avenues for therapy. To catalogue...