Ni Zhao

TL;DR: It is shown that human-papillomavirus-associated tumours are dominated by helical domain mutations of the oncogene PIK3CA, novel alterations involving loss of TRAF3, and amplification of the cell cycle gene E2F1.

TL;DR: The genomic landscape of 496 PTCs is described and a reclassification of thyroid cancers into molecular subtypes that better reflect their underlying signaling and differentiation properties is proposed, which has the potential to improve their pathological classification and better inform the management of the disease.

TL;DR: A cohort of 279 head and neck cancers with next generation RNA and DNA sequencing is profiled to provide insight into the mechanisms by which HPV interacts with the human genome beyond expression of viral oncoproteins and suggest that specific integration events are an integral component of viraloncogenesis.

TL;DR: Four molecular classes of HNSCC are confirmed consistent with signatures established for squamous carcinoma of the lung, including deregulation of the KEAP1/NFE2L2 oxidative stress pathway, differential utilization of the lineage markers SOX2 and TP63, and preference for the oncogenes PIK3CA and EGFR.

TL;DR: The microbiome regression-based kernel association test (MiRKAT), which directly regresses the outcome on the microbiome profiles via the semi-parametric kernel machine regression framework, is proposed and applied to real microbiome datasets to show that microbial communities are associated with smoking and with fecal protease levels after confounders are controlled for.