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Alexander J. Lazar
Researcher at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Publications - 578
Citations - 55895
Alexander J. Lazar is an academic researcher from University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sarcoma & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 487 publications receiving 38717 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander J. Lazar include Baylor College of Medicine & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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The Immune Landscape of Cancer
Vesteinn Thorsson,David L Gibbs,Scott D. Brown,Denise M. Wolf,Dante S. Bortone,Tai-Hsien Ou Yang,Eduard Porta-Pardo,Galen F. Gao,Christopher L. Plaisier,James A. Eddy,Elad Ziv,Aedín C. Culhane,Evan O. Paull,I K Ashok Sivakumar,Andrew J. Gentles,Raunaq Malhotra,Farshad Farshidfar,Antonio Colaprico,Joel S. Parker,Lisle E. Mose,Nam S Vo,Jianfang Liu,Yuexin Liu,Janet S. Rader,Varsha Dhankani,Sheila Reynolds,Reanne Bowlby,Andrea Califano,Andrew D. Cherniack,Dimitris Anastassiou,Davide Bedognetti,Arvind Rao,Ken Chen,Alexander Krasnitz,Hai Hu,Tathiane M. Malta,Houtan Noushmehr,Houtan Noushmehr,Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu,Susan Bullman,Akinyemi I. Ojesina,Andrew Lamb,Wanding Zhou,Hui Shen,Toni K. Choueiri,John N. Weinstein,Justin Guinney,Joel H. Saltz,Robert A. Holt,Charles E Rabkin,Alexander J. Lazar +50 more
TL;DR: An extensive immunogenomic analysis of more than 10,000 tumors comprising 33 diverse cancer types by utilizing data compiled by TCGA identifies six immune subtypes that encompass multiple cancer types and are hypothesized to define immune response patterns impacting prognosis.
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Gut microbiome modulates response to anti–PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma patients
Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan,Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan,Christine N. Spencer,Christine N. Spencer,Luigi Nezi,Alexandre Reuben,Miles C. Andrews,Tatiana Karpinets,Peter A. Prieto,D. Vicente,K. Hoffman,Spencer C. Wei,Alexandria P. Cogdill,Li Zhao,Courtney W. Hudgens,Diane S. Hutchinson,T. Manzo,M. Petaccia de Macedo,Tiziana Cotechini,T. Kumar,Wei Shen Chen,Sangeetha M. Reddy,R. Szczepaniak Sloane,Jessica Galloway-Peña,Hong Jiang,P. L. Chen,Elizabeth J. Shpall,Katayoun Rezvani,Amin M. Alousi,Roy F. Chemaly,Samuel A. Shelburne,Luis M Vence,Pablo C. Okhuysen,V. B. Jensen,Alton G. Swennes,Florencia McAllister,E. Marcelo Riquelme Sanchez,Yu Zhang,Laurence Zitvogel,Nicolas Pons,Jacob Austin-Breneman,Lauren E. Haydu,Elizabeth M. Burton,J. M. Gardner,E. Sirmans,Jing Shan Hu,Alexander J. Lazar,Takahiro Tsujikawa,Adi Diab,Hussein Abdul-Hassan Tawbi,Isabella C. Glitza,Wen-Jen Hwu,Sapna Pradyuman Patel,Scott E. Woodman,Rodabe N. Amaria,Michael A. Davies,Jeffrey E. Gershenwald,Patrick Hwu,J. E. Lee,Jianhua Zhang,Lisa M. Coussens,Zachary A. Cooper,P.A. Futreal,Carrie R. Daniel,Carrie R. Daniel,Nadim J. Ajami,Joseph F. Petrosino,Michael T. Tetzlaff,Pradeep Sharma,James P. Allison,Robert R. Jenq,Jennifer A. Wargo +71 more
TL;DR: Examination of the oral and gut microbiome of melanoma patients undergoing anti-programmed cell death 1 protein (PD-1) immunotherapy suggested enhanced systemic and antitumor immunity in responding patients with a favorable gut microbiome as well as in germ-free mice receiving fecal transplants from responding patients.
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Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma
Rehan Akbani,Kadir C. Akdemir,B. Arman Aksoy,Monique Albert,Adrian Ally,Samirkumar B. Amin,Harindra Arachchi,Arshi Arora,J. Todd Auman,Brenda Ayala,Julien Baboud,Miruna Balasundaram,Saianand Balu,Nandita Barnabas,John M. S. Bartlett,Pam Bartlett,Boris C. Bastian,Stephen B. Baylin,Madhusmita Behera,Dmitry Belyaev,Christopher C. Benz,Brady Bernard,Rameen Beroukhim,Natalie Bir,Aaron D. Black,Tom Bodenheimer,Lori Boice,Genevieve M. Boland,Riccardo Bono,Moiz S. Bootwalla,Marcus Bosenberg,Jay Bowen,Reanne Bowlby,Christopher A. Bristow,Laura Brockway-Lunardi,Denise Brooks,Jakub Brzezinski,Wiam Bshara,Elizabeth Buda,William R. Burns,Yaron S.N. Butterfield,Michael Button,Tiffany L. Calderone,Giancarlo Antonini Cappellini,Candace D. Carter,Scott L. Carter,Lynn Cherney,Andrew D. Cherniack,Aaron Chevalier,Lynda Chin,Juok Cho,Raymond J. Cho,Yoon La Choi,Andy Chu,Sudha Chudamani,Kristian Cibulskis,Giovanni Ciriello,Amanda Clarke,Stephen Coons,Leslie Cope,Daniel Crain,Erin Curley,Ludmila Danilova,Stefania D'Atri,Tanja Davidsen,Michael A. Davies,Keith A. Delman,John A. Demchok,Qixia A. Deng,Yonathan Lissanu Deribe,Noreen Dhalla,Rajiv Dhir,Daniel DiCara,Michael Dinikin,Michael Dubina,J. Stephen Ebrom,Sophie Egea,Greg Eley,Jay Engel,Jennifer Eschbacher,Konstantin V. Fedosenko,Ina Felau,Timothy R. Fennell,Martin L. Ferguson,Sheila Fisher,Keith T. Flaherty,Scott Frazer,Jessica Frick,Victoria Fulidou,Stacey Gabriel,Jianjiong Gao,Johanna Gardner,Levi A. Garraway,Julie M. Gastier-Foster,Carmelo Gaudioso,Nils Gehlenborg,Giannicola Genovese,Mark Gerken,Jeffrey E. Gershenwald,Gad Getz,Carmen Gomez-Fernandez,Thomas Gribbin,Jonna Grimsby,Benjamin Gross,Ranabir Guin,Tony Gutschner,Angela Hadjipanayis,Ruth Halaban,Benjamin Hanf,David Haussler,Lauren E. Haydu,D. Neil Hayes,Nicholas K. Hayward,David I. Heiman,Lynn M. Herbert,James G. Herman,Peter Hersey,Katherine A. Hoadley,Eran Hodis,Robert A. Holt,Dave S.B. Hoon,Susan Hoppough,Alan P. Hoyle,Franklin W. Huang,Mei Huang,Sharon K. Huang,Carolyn M. Hutter,Matthew Ibbs,Lisa Iype,Anders Jacobsen,Valerie Jakrot,Alyssa Janning,William R. Jeck,Stuart R. Jefferys,Mark A. Jensen,Corbin D. Jones,Steven J.M. Jones,Zhenlin Ju,Hojabr Kakavand,Hyojin Kang,Richard F. Kefford,Fadlo R. Khuri,Jaegil Kim,John M. Kirkwood,Joachim Klode,Anil Korkut,Konstanty Korski,Michael Krauthammer,Raju Kucherlapati,Lawrence N. Kwong,Witold Kycler,Marc Ladanyi,Phillip H. Lai,Peter W. Laird,Eric S. Lander,Michael S. Lawrence,Alexander J. Lazar,Radoslaw Łaźniak,Darlene Lee,Jeffrey E. Lee,Junehawk Lee,Kenneth K. Lee,Semin Lee,William Lee,Ewa Leporowska,Kristen M. Leraas,Haiyan I. Li,Tara M. Lichtenberg,Lee Lichtenstein,Pei Lin,Shiyun Ling,Jia Liu,Ouida Liu,Wen-Bin Liu,Georgina V. Long,Yiling Lu,Singer Ma,Yussanne Ma,Andrzej Mackiewicz,Harshad S. Mahadeshwar,Jared Malke,David Mallery,Georgy Manikhas,Graham J. Mann,Marco A. Marra,Brenna Matejka,Michael Mayo,Sousan Mehrabi,Shaowu Meng,Matthew Meyerson,Piotr A. Mieczkowski,John P. Miller,Martin L. Miller,Gordon B. Mills,Fedor Moiseenko,Richard A. Moore,Scott Morris,Carl Morrison,Donald L. Morton,Stergios J. Moschos,Lisle E. Mose,Florian L. Muller,Andrew J. Mungall,D. Murawa,Pawel Murawa,Bradley A. Murray,Luigi Nezi,Sam Ng,Dana Nicholson,Michael S. Noble,Adeboye Osunkoya,Taofeek K. Owonikoko,Bradley A. Ozenberger,Elena Pagani,Oxana Paklina,Angeliki Pantazi,Michael Parfenov,Jeremy Parfitt,Peter J. Park,Woong-Yang Park,Joel S. Parker,Francesca Passarelli,Robert Penny,Charles M. Perou,Todd Pihl,Olga Potapova,Victor G. Prieto,Alexei Protopopov,Michael J. Quinn,Amie Radenbaugh,Kunal Rai,Suresh Ramalingam,Ayush T. Raman,Nilsa C. Ramirez,Ricardo Ramirez,Uma Rao,W. Kimryn Rathmell,Xiaojia Ren,Sheila Reynolds,Jeffrey Roach,A. Gordon Robertson,Merrick I. Ross,Jason Roszik,Giandomenico Russo,Gordon Saksena,Charles Saller,Yardena Samuels,Chris Sander,Cindy Sander,George E. Sandusky,Netty Santoso,Melissa Saul,Robyn P. M. Saw,Dirk Schadendorf,Jacqueline E. Schein,Nikolaus Schultz,Steven E. Schumacher,Charles Schwallier,Richard A. Scolyer,Jonathan G. Seidman,Pedamallu Chandra Sekhar,Harmanjatinder S. Sekhon,Yasin Senbabaoglu,Sahil Seth,Kerwin F. Shannon,Samantha Sharpe,Norman E. Sharpless,Kenna R. Mills Shaw,Candace Shelton,Troy Shelton,Ronglai Shen,Margi Sheth,Yan Shi,Carolyn J. Shiau,Ilya Shmulevich,Gabriel Sica,Janae V. Simons,Rileen Sinha,Payal Sipahimalani,Heidi J. Sofia,Matthew G. Soloway,Xingzhi Song,Carrie Sougnez,Andrew J. Spillane,Arkadiusz Spychała,Jonathan R. Stretch,Joshua M. Stuart,Wiktoria Maria Suchorska,Antje Sucker,S. Onur Sumer,Yichao Sun,Maria Synott,Barbara Tabak,Teresa R. Tabler,Angela Tam,Donghui Tan,Jiabin Tang,Roy Tarnuzzer,Katherine Tarvin,Honorata Tatka,Barry S. Taylor,M. Teresiak,Nina Thiessen,John F. Thompson,Leigh B. Thorne,Vesteinn Thorsson,Jeffrey M. Trent,Timothy J. Triche,Kenneth Y. Tsai,Peiling Tsou,David Van Den Berg,Eliezer M. Van Allen,Umadevi Veluvolu,Roeland Verhaak,Douglas Voet,Olga Voronina,Vonn Walter,Jessica Walton,Yunhu Wan,Yuling Wang,Zhining Wang,Scot Waring,Ian R. Watson,Nils Weinhold,John N. Weinstein,Daniel J. Weisenberger,Peter White,Matthew D. Wilkerson,James S. Wilmott,Lisa Wise,Maciej Wiznerowicz,Scott E. Woodman,Chang Jiun Wu,Chia Chin Wu,Junyuan Wu,Ye Wu,Ruibin Xi,Andrew Wei Xu,Da Yang,Liming Yang,Lixing Yang,Travis I. Zack,Jean C. Zenklusen,Hailei Zhang,Jianhua Zhang,Wei Zhang,Xiaobei Zhao,Jingchun Zhu,Kelsey Zhu,Lisa Zimmer,Erik Zmuda,Lihua Zou +351 more
TL;DR: This clinicopathological and multi-dimensional analysis suggests that the prognosis of melanoma patients with regional metastases is influenced by tumor stroma immunobiology, offering insights to further personalize therapeutic decision-making.
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An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics.
Jianfang Liu,Tara M. Lichtenberg,Katherine A Hoadley,Laila M. Poisson,Alexander J. Lazar,Andrew D. Cherniack,Albert J. Kovatich,Christopher C. Benz,Douglas A. Levine,Adrian V. Lee,Larsson Omberg,Denise M. Wolf,Craig D. Shriver,Vesteinn Thorsson,Hai Hu +14 more
TL;DR: These TCGA-CDR findings appear to be consistent with cancer genomics studies independent of the TCGA effort and provide opportunities for investigating cancer biology using clinical correlates at an unprecedented scale.
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Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas
Francisco Sanchez-Vega,Marco Mina,Joshua Armenia,Walid K. Chatila,Augustin Luna,Konnor La,Sofia Dimitriadoy,David L. Liu,Havish S. Kantheti,Sadegh Saghafinia,Debyani Chakravarty,Foysal Daian,Qingsong Gao,Matthew H. Bailey,Wen-Wei Liang,Steven M. Foltz,Ilya Shmulevich,Li Ding,Zachary J. Heins,Angelica Ochoa,Benjamin Gross,Jianjiong Gao,Hongxin Zhang,Ritika Kundra,Cyriac Kandoth,Istemi Bahceci,Leonard Dervishi,Ugur Dogrusoz,Wanding Zhou,Hui Shen,Peter W. Laird,Gregory P. Way,Casey S. Greene,Han Liang,Yonghong Xiao,Chen Wang,Antonio Iavarone,Alice H. Berger,Trever G. Bivona,Alexander J. Lazar,Gary D. Hammer,Thomas J. Giordano,Lawrence N. Kwong,Grant A. McArthur,Chenfei Huang,Aaron D. Tward,Mitchell J. Frederick,Frank McCormick,Matthew Meyerson,Eliezer M. Van Allen,Andrew D. Cherniack,Giovanni Ciriello,Chris Sander,Nikolaus Schultz +53 more
TL;DR: This work charted the detailed landscape of pathway alterations in 33 cancer types, stratified into 64 subtypes, and identified patterns of co-occurrence and mutual exclusivity.