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Gain at chromosomal region 5p15.33, containing TERT, is the most frequent genetic event in early stages of non-small cell lung cancer

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A high-resolution array comparative genomic hybridization study using an array of 4,046 bacterial artificial chromosome clones to screen for DNA copy number changes associated with individual genes in 36 tumors obtained from patients in early stages of NSCLC identified a series of genes in the critical 5p15.33 region that may be used as novel biomarkers for the early detection and classification of lung cancer.
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This article is published in Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics.The article was published on 2008-04-01. It has received 167 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chromosomal region & Comparative genomic hybridization.

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Sequence variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associate with many cancer types.

Thorunn Rafnar, +89 more
- 01 Feb 2009 - 
TL;DR: It is found that rs401681[C] on chromosome 5p15 satisfied the threshold for genome-wide significance and seems to confer protection against cutaneous melanoma, and investigation of the region led to rs2736098[A], which showed stronger association with some cancer types, but neither variant could fully account for the association of the other.
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Common 5p15.33 and 6p21.33 variants influence lung cancer risk.

TL;DR: A genome-wide association study of lung cancer comparing 511,919 SNP genotypes in 1,952 cases and 1,438 controls confirmed the most significant association was attained at 15q25.1 and identified two newly associated risk loci mapping to 6p21.33 and 5p15.33.
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Telomeric and extra-telomeric roles for telomerase and the telomere-binding proteins

TL;DR: The role of telomeric proteins in cancer and ageing through modulating telomere length and protection, as well as regulating gene expression by binding to non-telomeric sites is discussed.
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Variants near DMRT1 , TERT and ATF7IP are associated with testicular germ cell cancer

TL;DR: A genome-wide association study for testicular germ cell tumor is conducted, genotyping 298,782 SNPs in 979 affected individuals and 4,947 controls from the UK and replicating associations in a further 664 cases and 3,456 controls.
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DHHC palmitoyl transferases: substrate interactions and (patho)physiology

TL;DR: This work has highlighted how DHHC proteins regulate cell function and influence physiology and pathophysiology and there is now a major effort to identify DHHC-substrate pairings and to determine how interaction specificity is encoded.
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Specific association of human telomerase activity with immortal cells and cancer

TL;DR: A highly sensitive assay for measuring telomerase activity was developed in this paper, which showed that telomerases appear to be stringently repressed in normal human somatic tissues but reactivated in cancer, where immortal cells are likely required to maintain tumor growth.
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Extension of life-span by introduction of telomerase into normal human cells

TL;DR: In this article, two telomerase-negative normal human cell types, retinal pigment epithelial cells and foreskin fibroblasts, were transfected with vectors encoding the human telomere catalytic subunit.
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Cancer burden in the year 2000. The global picture.

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Telomerase catalytic subunit homologs from fission yeast and human

TL;DR: In this paper, the homologous genes from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and human are identified and the proposed telomerase catalytic subunits represent a deep branch in the evolution of reverse transcriptases.
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