Claus L. Andersen

TL;DR: A novel, innovative, and robust strategy to identify stably expressed genes among a set of candidate normalization genes, rooted in a mathematical model of gene expression, that provides a direct measure for the estimated expression variation, enabling the user to evaluate the systematic error introduced when using the gene.

TL;DR: It is shown that oncogene-induced senescence is associated with signs of DNA replication stress, including prematurely terminated DNA replication forks and DNA double-strand breaks, and, together with apoptosis, provides a barrier to malignant progression.

TL;DR: In patients with resectable colorectal cancers, higher amounts of preoperative circulating tumor DNA were associated with disease recurrence and decreased overall survival, and a method developed by Phallen et al., called targeted error correction sequencing, demonstrates the feasibility of detecting circulating cell-free DNA from many early tumors, suggesting its potential use for cancer screening.

TL;DR: An approach to evaluate fragmentation patterns of cell-free DNA across the genome was developed, and found that profiles of healthy individuals reflected nucleosomal patterns of white blood cells, whereas patients with cancer had altered fragmentation profiles.

TL;DR: The results suggest that perturbed expression of numerous miRNAs in colon cancer may have a functional effect on tumor cell behavior, and, furthermore, that some miRNAAs with prognostic potential could be of clinical importance.