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Treatment Outcomes and Tumor Loss of Heterozygosity in Germline DNA Repair–deficient Prostate Cancer

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Patients with mCRPC who have germline DNA repair defects exhibit attenuated responses to AR-targeted therapy, suggesting that this patient subset could be prioritized for therapies exploiting defective DNA repair using a liquid biopsy.
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This article is published in European Urology.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 177 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Germline mutation & DNA repair.

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The Role of PARP Inhibitors in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer: Recent Advances in Clinical Trials.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the mechanism of PARP inhibition in the treatment of prostate cancer, the progress of clinical research, the mechanisms of drug resistance, and the strategies of combination treatments.
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Past, Current, and Future Strategies to Target ERG Fusion-Positive Prostate Cancer

TL;DR: The strategies developed in recent years to inhibit ERG activity are discussed, the current therapeutic utility of ERG fusion detection in PCa patients, and the possible future approaches to targetERG fusion-positive tumors are discussed.
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Circulating cell-free nucleic acids as prognostic and therapy predictive tools for metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer

TL;DR: It has been observed that the cell-free tumor deoxyribonucleic acid of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer patients can be representative of the tumor heterogeneity and represents an interesting strategy based on robust data.
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Molecular insights into the germline for prostate cancer initiation, progression, and aggressiveness.

TL;DR: This article summarizes a presentation at the 2019 Philadelphia Consensus Conference focused on the latest data at the intersection of germline and tumor genetic testing for prostate cancer patients.
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Basic Science and Molecular Genetics of Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness.

TL;DR: Androgen receptor function, tumor cell plasticity, loss of tumor suppressors, and defects in DNA repair genes affect aggressive features of prostate cancer as mentioned in this paper, and DNA repair defects have ramifications for prostate cancer cell behavior.
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Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

TL;DR: Bowtie 2 combines the strengths of the full-text minute index with the flexibility and speed of hardware-accelerated dynamic programming algorithms to achieve a combination of high speed, sensitivity and accuracy.
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BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features

TL;DR: A new software suite for the comparison, manipulation and annotation of genomic features in Browser Extensible Data (BED) and General Feature Format (GFF) format, which allows the user to compare large datasets (e.g. next-generation sequencing data) with both public and custom genome annotation tracks.
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ANNOVAR: functional annotation of genetic variants from high-throughput sequencing data

TL;DR: The ANNOVAR tool to annotate single nucleotide variants and insertions/deletions, such as examining their functional consequence on genes, inferring cytogenetic bands, reporting functional importance scores, finding variants in conserved regions, or identifying variants reported in the 1000 Genomes Project and dbSNP is developed.
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Integrative clinical genomics of advanced prostate cancer

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TL;DR: This cohort study provides clinically actionable information that could impact treatment decisions for affected individuals and identified new genomic alterations in PIK3CA/B, R-spondin, BRAF/RAF1, APC, β-catenin, and ZBTB16/PLZF.
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