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Tyrosine kinase gene rearrangements in epithelial malignancies

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The clinical outcomes with targeted therapies, aetiologic, pathogenic and clinical features that are associated with cancers harbouring oncogenic fusion kinases, including anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), ROS1 and RET are examined.
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In this Review, the authors examine the aetiological, pathogenic and clinical features that are associated with cancers harbouring oncogenic fusion kinases, the clinical outcomes with targeted therapies, and strategies to discover additional kinases that are activated by chromosomal rearrangements in solid tumours. Chromosomal rearrangements that lead to oncogenic kinase activation are observed in many epithelial cancers. These cancers express activated fusion kinases that drive the initiation and progression of malignancy, and often have a considerable response to small-molecule kinase inhibitors, which validates these fusion kinases as 'druggable' targets. In this Review, we examine the aetiologic, pathogenic and clinical features that are associated with cancers harbouring oncogenic fusion kinases, including anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), ROS1 and RET. We discuss the clinical outcomes with targeted therapies and explore strategies to discover additional kinases that are activated by chromosomal rearrangements in solid tumours.

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Translocation-capture sequencing reveals the extent and nature of chromosomal rearrangements in B lymphocytes.

TL;DR: Translocation Capture Sequencing (TC-Seq) as mentioned in this paper is a method to document chromosomal rearrangements genome-wide, in primary cells in B cell lymphoma, revealing that proximity between DSBs, transcriptional activity and chromosome territories are key determinants of genome rearrangement.

The Extent and Nature Of Chromosomal Rearrangements in B Lymphocytes

TL;DR: Translocation Capture Sequencing (TC-Seq) is developed, a method to document chromosomal rearrangements genome-wide, in primary cells and finds that activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) induces the rearrangement of many genes found as translocation partners in mature B cell lymphoma.
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High prevalence of RET rearrangement in thyroid tumors of children from Belarus after the Chernobyl reactor accident

TL;DR: Intrachromosomal rearrangement involving RET and the adjacent H4 or ELE gene on chromosome no. 10 is a very frequent event in thyroid cancer of children of the Chernobyl-contaminated zone of Belarus.
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Exon array profiling detects EML4-ALK fusion in breast, colorectal, and non-small cell lung cancers.

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