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Derek Yecies

Researcher at Stanford University

Publications -  36
Citations -  4897

Derek Yecies is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 31 publications receiving 4206 citations. Previous affiliations of Derek Yecies include Harvard University & Boston University.

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The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

Rameen Beroukhim, +86 more
- 18 Feb 2010 - 
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that cancer cells containing amplifications surrounding the MCL1 and BCL2L1 anti-apoptotic genes depend on the expression of these genes for survival, and a large majority of SCNAs identified in individual cancer types are present in several cancer types.
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Akt Stimulates Hepatic SREBP1c and Lipogenesis through Parallel mTORC1-Dependent and Independent Pathways

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that this mTORC1-independent pathway involves Akt-mediated suppression of Insig2a, a liver-specific transcript encoding the SREBP1c inhibitor INSIG2, which indicates the existence of an additional downstream pathway also required for this induction.
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Acquired resistance to ABT-737 in lymphoma cells that up-regulate MCL-1 and BFL-1.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, in addition to stable increases in MCL-1 transcript and protein in resistant cells, there was a dynamic increase within hours after ABT-737 treatment that suggests a novel mechanism whereby modulation of antiapoptotic protein function communicates with nuclear transcriptional machinery.

The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

Rameen Beroukhim, +86 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify 158 regions of focal SCNA that are altered at significant frequency across several cancer types, of which 122 cannot be explained by the presence of a known cancer target gene located within these regions.