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CpG island methylation, response to combination chemotherapy, and patient survival in advanced microsatellite stable colorectal carcinomaShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Virchows Arch 450:529-37. 2007..Additional studies are necessary to examine the role of DNA methylation in treatment efficacy...
Molecular correlates with MGMT promoter methylation and silencing support CpG island methylator phenotype-low (CIMP-low) in colorectal cancerShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, BWH Pathology, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Gut 56:1564-71. 2007..O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation and silencing have been associated with G>A mutations and microsatellite instability-low (MSI-low)...
Combined analysis of COX-2 and p53 expressions reveals synergistic inverse correlations with microsatellite instability and CpG island methylator phenotype in colorectal cancerShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neoplasia 8:458-64. 2006..Our data suggest that a combined analysis of COX-2 and p53 may be more useful for the molecular classification of colorectal cancer than either COX-2 or p53 analysis alone...
Prognostic significance and molecular associations of 18q loss of heterozygosity: a cohort study of microsatellite stable colorectal cancersShuji Ogino
Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney St, Room JF 215C, Boston, MA 02115 USA
J Clin Oncol 27:4591-8. 2009..However, it is unclear whether 18q LOH in colorectal cancer has any prognostic implication independent of MSI status and other potential predictors of clinical outcome...
CDK8 expression in 470 colorectal cancers in relation to beta-catenin activation, other molecular alterations and patient survivalRon Firestein
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 126:2863-73. 2010..These data support a potential link between CDK8 and beta-catenin, and suggest that CDK8 may identify a subset of colon cancer patients with a poor prognosis...
Epigenomic diversity of colorectal cancer indicated by LINE-1 methylation in a database of 869 tumorsYoshifumi Baba
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Mol Cancer 9:125. 2010..Thus, it is of particular interest to examine whether its wide variation can be attributed to clinical, pathologic or molecular features...
A prospective cohort study shows unique epigenetic, genetic, and prognostic features of synchronous colorectal cancersKatsuhiko Nosho
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Gastroenterology 137:1609-20.e1-3. 2009..Synchronous colon cancers have not been compared with control solitary cancers in a prospective study...
Vitamin D receptor expression is associated with PIK3CA and KRAS mutations in colorectal cancerShoko Kure
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:2765-72. 2009..Our data support potential interactions between the VDR, RAS-MAPK and PI3K-AKT pathways, and possible influence by KRAS or PIK3CA mutation on therapy or chemoprevention targeting VDR...
Insulin-like growth factor 2 messenger RNA binding protein 3 (IGF2BP3) is a marker of unfavourable prognosis in colorectal cancerPaul Lochhead
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, United States
Eur J Cancer 48:3405-13. 2012..However, the clinical, pathological, molecular and prognostic features of IGF2BP3-positive colorectal cancers remain uncertain...
PIK3CA mutation in colorectal cancer: relationship with genetic and epigenetic alterationsKatsuhiko Nosho
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neoplasia 10:534-41. 2008..In addition, Pyrosequencing is useful in detecting PIK3CA mutation in archival paraffin tumor tissue. PIK3CA mutational data further emphasize heterogeneity of colorectal cancer at the molecular level...
DNMT3B expression might contribute to CpG island methylator phenotype in colorectal cancerKatsuhiko Nosho
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:3663-71. 2009..We hypothesized that cellular DNMT3B level might influence the occurrence of widespread CpG island methylation (i.e., the CpG island methylator phenotype, CIMP) in colon cancer...
Tumor TP53 expression status, body mass index and prognosis in colorectal cancerTeppei Morikawa
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and Department of Medicine Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Int J Cancer 131:1169-78. 2012..These molecular pathological epidemiology data may support a dual role of TP53 alterations in cell-cycle deregulation and cell autonomy with respect to energy balance status...
Comprehensive biostatistical analysis of CpG island methylator phenotype in colorectal cancer using a large population-based sampleKatsuhiko Nosho
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
PLoS ONE 3:e3698. 2008..CIMP-high is independently associated with clinical and key molecular features in colorectal cancer. Our data also suggest that KRAS mutation is related with a random CpG island methylation pattern which may lead to CIMP-low tumors...
PIK3CA mutation is associated with poor prognosis among patients with curatively resected colon cancerShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney St, Room JF 215C, Boston, MA 02115 USA
J Clin Oncol 27:1477-84. 2009..PIK3CA mutation and subsequent activation of the AKT pathway play an important role in colorectal carcinogenesis. However, little is known about the prognostic role of PIK3CA mutation in colon cancer...
Aurora-A expression is independently associated with chromosomal instability in colorectal cancerYoshifumi Baba
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neoplasia 11:418-25. 2009..In conclusion, AURKA overexpression is independently associated with CIN in colorectal cancer, supporting a potential role of Aurora kinase-A in colorectal carcinogenesis through genomic instability (rather than epigenomic instability)...
TGFBR2 and BAX mononucleotide tract mutations, microsatellite instability, and prognosis in 1072 colorectal cancersKaori Shima
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e25062. 2011..However, a role of TGFBR2 or BAX mononucleotide mutation in colorectal cancer as a prognostic biomarker remains uncertain...
Predictive and prognostic roles of BRAF mutation in stage III colon cancer: results from intergroup trial CALGB 89803Shuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Clin Cancer Res 18:890-900. 2012..irinotecan (CPT11), FU and LV (IFL); CALGB 89803]. Cox proportional hazards model was used to assess the prognostic role of BRAF mutation, adjusting for clinical features, adjuvant chemotherapy arm, and MSI status...
SIRT1 histone deacetylase expression is associated with microsatellite instability and CpG island methylator phenotype in colorectal cancerKatsuhiko Nosho
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Mod Pathol 22:922-32. 2009..In conclusion, SIRT1 expression is associated with CIMP-high MSI-high colon cancer, suggesting involvement of SIRT1 in gene silencing in this unique tumor subtype...
MGMT promoter methylation, loss of expression and prognosis in 855 colorectal cancersKaori Shima
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:301-9. 2011..MGMT promoter hypermethylation and epigenetic silencing often occur as early events in carcinogenesis. However, prognostic significance of MGMT alterations in colorectal cancer remains uncertain...
IGFBP3 promoter methylation in colorectal cancer: relationship with microsatellite instability, CpG island methylator phenotype, and p53Takako Kawasaki
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neoplasia 9:1091-8. 2007..Our data suggest complex relationship between global genomic/epigenomic phenomena (such as MSI/CIMP), single molecular events (e.g., IGFBP3 methylation, TP53 mutation, and TGFBR2 mutation), and the related pathways...
CpG island methylator phenotype, microsatellite instability, BRAF mutation and clinical outcome in colon cancerShuji Ogino
Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA
Gut 58:90-6. 2009..The independent effect of CIMP, MSI and BRAF mutation on prognosis remains uncertain...
WRN promoter methylation possibly connects mucinous differentiation, microsatellite instability and CpG island methylator phenotype in colorectal cancerTakako Kawasaki
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Mod Pathol 21:150-8. 2008..Our data suggest a possible role of WRN methylation in mucinous differentiation, and may provide explanation to the enigmatic association between mucin and MSI/CIMP...
CpG island methylator phenotype-low (CIMP-low) colorectal cancer shows not only few methylated CIMP-high-specific CpG islands, but also low-level methylation at individual lociTakako Kawasaki
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
Mod Pathol 21:245-55. 2008..Our data may provide supporting evidence for a difference in pathogenesis of DNA methylation between CIMP-low and CIMP-high tumors...
Negative lymph node count is associated with survival of colorectal cancer patients, independent of tumoral molecular alterations and lymphocytic reactionShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 105:420-33. 2010....
JC virus T-antigen in colorectal cancer is associated with p53 expression and chromosomal instability, independent of CpG island methylator phenotypeKatsuhiko Nosho
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neoplasia 11:87-95. 2009..JCVT was unrelated with patient survival. In conclusion, JCVT expression in colorectal cancer is independently associated with p53 expression and CIN, which may lead to uncontrolled cell proliferation...
NRAS mutations are rare in colorectal cancerNatsumi Irahara
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
Diagn Mol Pathol 19:157-63. 2010..NRAS mutations were detected in 5 (2.2%) of the 225 colorectal cancers and tended to occur in left-sided cancers arising in women, but did not seem to be associated with any of the molecular features that were examined...
Association of CTNNB1 (beta-catenin) alterations, body mass index, and physical activity with survival in patients with colorectal cancerTeppei Morikawa
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
JAMA 305:1685-94. 2011..Alterations of the WNT signaling pathway and cadherin-associated protein β 1 (CTNNB1 or β-catenin) have been implicated in colorectal carcinogenesis and metabolic diseases...
Prospective study of family history and colorectal cancer risk by tumor LINE-1 methylation levelShuji Ogino
Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 450 Brookline Ave, Rm JF 215C, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 105:130-40. 2013..We tested the hypothesis that CRC family history might confer a higher risk of LINE-1 methylation-low CRC...
Aspirin use, tumor PIK3CA mutation, and colorectal-cancer survivalXiaoyun Liao
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
N Engl J Med 367:1596-606. 2012....
Predictors of lymph node count in colorectal cancer resections: data from US nationwide prospective cohort studiesTeppei Morikawa
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Havard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Surg 147:715-23. 2012..To identify factors that influence the total and negative lymph node counts in colorectal cancer resection specimens independent of pathologists and surgeons...
Body mass index and risk of colorectal cancer according to fatty acid synthase expression in the nurses' health studyAya Kuchiba
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 104:415-20. 2012..9 and 7.1, respectively, per 100,000 person-years. This molecular pathological epidemiology study supports a role of energy metabolism in colorectal cancer pathogenesis...
A cohort study of tumoral LINE-1 hypomethylation and prognosis in colon cancerShuji Ogino
Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:1734-8. 2008..In conclusion, tumoral LINE-1 hypomethylation is independently associated with shorter survival among colon cancer patients...
HIF1A overexpression is associated with poor prognosis in a cohort of 731 colorectal cancersYoshifumi Baba
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Pathol 176:2292-301. 2010..039). In conclusion, HIF1A expression is independently associated with poor prognosis in colorectal cancer, suggesting HIF1A as a biomarker with potentially important therapeutic implications...
Germline polymorphisms in the one-carbon metabolism pathway and DNA methylation in colorectal cancerAditi Hazra
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:331-45. 2010..Collectively, these exploratory data provide suggestive evidence for the association of MTHFR 429 Ala/ Ala and TCN2 259 Arg/Arg and CIMP status in colorectal cancer...
A cohort study of p27 localization in colon cancer, body mass index, and patient survivalShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, and Harvard Medical School 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:1849-58. 2009..08). In conclusion, p27 alterations in colon cancer are associated with superior prognosis. Adverse prognostic effect of obesity seems limited to patients with nuclear p27 expression, suggesting a host-tumor interaction...
Relationship between statin use and colon cancer recurrence and survival: results from CALGB 89803Kimmie Ng
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 103:1540-51. 2011..Although preclinical and epidemiological data suggest that statins may have antineoplastic properties, the impact of statin use on patient survival after a curative resection of stage III colon cancer is unknown...
TGFBR2 mutation is correlated with CpG island methylator phenotype in microsatellite instability-high colorectal cancerShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Hum Pathol 38:614-20. 2007....
Precision of pyrosequencing assay to measure LINE-1 methylation in colon cancer, normal colonic mucosa, and peripheral blood cellsNatsumi Irahara
Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney St, Room JF 215C, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Mol Diagn 12:177-83. 2010..9) in leukocyte DNA. In conclusion, bisulfite conversion and PCR-pyrosequencing assay can measure LINE-1 methylation in macrodissected colon cancer, normal colon, and blood DNA, and may be useful in clinical and research settings...
CpG island methylator phenotype-low (CIMP-low) in colorectal cancer: possible associations with male sex and KRAS mutationsShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Mol Diagn 8:582-8. 2006..In conclusion, CIMP-low colorectal cancer is associated with male sex and KRAS mutations. The hypothesis that CIMP-low tumors are different from CIMP-high and CIMP-0 tumors needs to be tested further...
Cohort study of fatty acid synthase expression and patient survival in colon cancerShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:5713-20. 2008..Fatty acid synthase (FASN) is physiologically regulated by energy balance and is often upregulated in colorectal cancer. Nonetheless, the influence of FASN expression on patient outcome is uncertain...
Prognostic role of PIK3CA mutation in colorectal cancer: cohort study and literature reviewXiaoyun Liao
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Clin Cancer Res 18:2257-68. 2012..Thus, we hypothesized that PIK3CA exon 9 and exon 20 mutations might have differential effects on clinical outcome in colorectal cancer, and that concomitant PIK3CA exon 9 and 20 mutations might confer aggressive tumor behavior...
Prognostic significance and molecular associations of tumor growth pattern in colorectal cancerTeppei Morikawa
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 19:1944-53. 2012..However, little is known about the prognostic significance of tumor growth pattern, independent of tumoral molecular alterations and other histologic features...
Novel application of structural equation modeling to correlation structure analysis of CpG island methylation in colorectal cancerNoriko Tanaka
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Pathol 177:2731-40. 2010..Our novel data suggest two distinct perturbations, resulting in differential locus-specific propensity of CpG methylation...
Colorectal cancer expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG, PPARgamma) is associated with good prognosisShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Gastroenterology 136:1242-50. 2009..There is controversy over the pro-oncogenic or antioncogenic effects of PPARG, and little is known about its prognostic significance in colon cancer...
Epigenetic profiling of synchronous colorectal neoplasias by quantitative DNA methylation analysisShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Mod Pathol 19:1083-90. 2006..KRAS mutations were not concordant in any synchronous neoplasia pair. In conclusion, epigenetic alterations at CIMP-specific promoter CpG islands in synchronous colorectal neoplasias likely have both random and nonrandom components...
STAT3 expression, molecular features, inflammation patterns, and prognosis in a database of 724 colorectal cancersTeppei Morikawa
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Clin Cancer Res 17:1452-62. 2011..Although the STAT3 signaling pathway is a potential drug target, clinical, pathologic, molecular, or prognostic features of STAT3-activated colorectal cancer remain uncertain...
Interaction of molecular markers and physical activity on mortality in patients with colon cancerJeffrey A Meyerhardt
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:5931-6. 2009..Physical activity in colon cancer survivors has been associated with lower cancer recurrences and improved survival. Whether molecular features of the tumor portend more or less likelihood for benefit from exercise is unknown...
A cohort study of cyclin D1 expression and prognosis in 602 colon cancer casesShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:4431-8. 2009....
Assessment of colorectal cancer molecular features along bowel subsites challenges the conception of distinct dichotomy of proximal versus distal colorectumMai Yamauchi
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gut 61:847-54. 2012..Considering a possible role of bowel contents (including microbiome) in carcinogenesis, this study hypothesised that tumour molecular features might gradually change along bowel subsites, rather than change abruptly at splenic flexure...
Correlation of beta-catenin localization with cyclooxygenase-2 expression and CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) in colorectal cancerTakako Kawasaki
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neoplasia 9:569-77. 2007..Cytoplasmic beta-catenin is associated with COX-2 overexpression, supporting the role of cytoplasmic beta-catenin in stabilizing PTGS2 (COX-2) mRNA...
Loss of nuclear p27 (CDKN1B/KIP1) in colorectal cancer is correlated with microsatellite instability and CIMPShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Mod Pathol 20:15-22. 2007..These associations are stronger among p53 wild-type tumors, implying important interplay of p27 and p53 functions (or dysfunctions) in the development of various molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer...
Relationship of CDX2 loss with molecular features and prognosis in colorectal cancerYoshifumi Baba
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:4665-73. 2009....
Fatty acid synthase overexpression in colorectal cancer is associated with microsatellite instability, independent of CpG island methylator phenotypeShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Hum Pathol 38:842-9. 2007..Fatty acid synthase overexpression was not significantly correlated with sex, tumor location, p53, or KRAS/BRAF status. In conclusion, FASN overexpression in colorectal cancer is associated with MSI-H, independent of CIMP status...
MGMT germline polymorphism is associated with somatic MGMT promoter methylation and gene silencing in colorectal cancerShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Carcinogenesis 28:1985-90. 2007..56C>T) of the MGMT promoter and promoter methylation/silencing of MGMT in colorectal cancer. Our data provide compelling evidence for common susceptibility for MGMT promoter CpG island methylation...
Correlation of pathologic features with CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) by quantitative DNA methylation analysis in colorectal carcinomaShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 30:1175-83. 2006..Both MSI and CIMP appear to play a role in the pathogenesis of specific morphologic patterns of colorectal carcinoma...
A cohort study of STMN1 expression in colorectal cancer: body mass index and prognosisShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney St, Room JF 215C, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 104:2047-56. 2009..STMN1 activity is influenced by p53, p27, and the PI3K/AKT pathway. However, its prognostic significance in colon cancer is uncertain...
Hypomethylation of the IGF2 DMR in colorectal tumors, detected by bisulfite pyrosequencing, is associated with poor prognosisYoshifumi Baba
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gastroenterology 139:1855-64. 2010..IGF2 LOI correlates with hypomethylation at the differentially methylated region (DMR)-0. An assay for methylation of the DMR0 could overcome the limitations of the conventional IGF2 LOI assay...
Cytoplasmic localization of p27 (cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1B/KIP1) in colorectal cancer: inverse correlations with nuclear p27 loss, microsatellite instability, and CpG island methylator phenotypeShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Hum Pathol 38:585-92. 2007....
Cyclooxygenase-2 overexpression is common in serrated and non-serrated colorectal adenoma, but uncommon in hyperplastic polyp and sessile serrated polyp/adenomaTakako Kawasaki
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Cancer 8:33. 2008..Therefore, we hypothesized that COX-2 may play a less important role in the serrated pathway...
No evidence for interference of h&e staining in DNA testing: usefulness of DNA extraction from H&E-stained archival tissue sectionsTeppei Morikawa
Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 450 Brookline Ave, Room JF 208E, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 138:122-9. 2012..Our data provide no evidence for an interfering effect of H&E staining on DNA testing, suggesting that DNA from H&E-stained sections can be effectively used for routine DNA testing...
PTGER2 overexpression in colorectal cancer is associated with microsatellite instability, independent of CpG island methylator phenotypeYoshifumi Baba
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana FarberCancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:822-31. 2010..However, the prognostic significance of PTGER2 expression or its relationship with MSI, CIMP, LINE-1 hypomethylation, or PTGS2 (COX-2) remains uncertain...
Lymphocytic reaction to colorectal cancer is associated with longer survival, independent of lymph node count, microsatellite instability, and CpG island methylator phenotypeShuji Ogino
Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:6412-20. 2009....
Dietary folate, alcohol and B vitamins in relation to LINE-1 hypomethylation in colon cancerEva S Schernhammer
Channing Laboratory, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Gut 59:794-9. 2010..Long interspersed nucleotide element-1 (LINE-1) is an emerging indicator of genome-wide DNA methylation level that has previously been linked to colon cancer survival...
Precision and performance characteristics of bisulfite conversion and real-time PCR (MethyLight) for quantitative DNA methylation analysisShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Mol Diagn 8:209-17. 2006..In conclusion, sodium bisulfite conversion and quantitative MethyLight assays have good precision and linearity and can be effectively used for high-throughput DNA methylation analysis on paraffin-embedded tissue...
Tumour-infiltrating T-cell subsets, molecular changes in colorectal cancer, and prognosis: cohort study and literature reviewKatsuhiko Nosho
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Pathol 222:350-66. 2010..Our data offer a possible mechanism by which MSI confers an improved clinical outcome and support efforts to augment the host immune response in the tumour microenvironment as a strategy of targeted immunotherapy...
Evaluation of markers for CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) in colorectal cancer by a large population-based sampleShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Mol Diagn 9:305-14. 2007..In conclusion, a panel of markers including at least RUNX3, CACNA1G, IGF2, and MLH1 can serve as a sensitive and specific marker panel for CIMP-high...
LINE-1 hypomethylation is inversely associated with microsatellite instability and CpG island methylator phenotype in colorectal cancerShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 122:2767-73. 2008..Our data also support a possible link between global hypomethylation and chromosomal instability...
Phase I study of gefitinib, irinotecan, 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin in patients with metastatic colorectal cancerJeffrey A Meyerhardt
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 60:661-70. 2007....
Cyclooxygenase-2 expression is an independent predictor of poor prognosis in colon cancerShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Cancer Res 14:8221-7. 2008..However, previous data on the influence of COX-2 expression on patient outcome have been conflicting...
The Cables gene on chromosome 18q is silenced by promoter hypermethylation and allelic loss in human colorectal cancerDo Youn Park
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Pathol 171:1509-19. 2007..Loss of Cables expression in 65% of CRCs suggests that it is a common event in colonic carcinogenesis, with promoter methylation and LOH appearing to be important mechanisms of Cables gene inactivation...
18q loss of heterozygosity in microsatellite stable colorectal cancer is correlated with CpG island methylator phenotype-negative (CIMP-0) and inversely with CIMP-low and CIMP-highShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
BMC Cancer 7:72. 2007..However, no study has examined 18q LOH in relation to CIMP-high, CIMP-low (less extensive promoter methylation) and CIMP-0 (CIMP-negative), determined by quantitative DNA methylation analysis...
A prospective study of dietary folate and vitamin B and colon cancer according to microsatellite instability and KRAS mutational statusEva S Schernhammer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2895-8. 2008..In conclusion, the influence of dietary one-carbon nutrient intake on colon cancer risk does not seem to differ according to MSI or KRAS mutational status...
Prognostic significance of CDKN2A (p16) promoter methylation and loss of expression in 902 colorectal cancers: Cohort study and literature reviewKaori Shima
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Int J Cancer 128:1080-94. 2011..Despite its well-established role in carcinogenesis, CDKN2A (p16) promoter methylation or loss of expression in colorectal cancer is not independently associated with patient prognosis...
Phosphorylated AKT expression is associated with PIK3CA mutation, low stage, and favorable outcome in 717 colorectal cancersYoshifumi Baba
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer 117:1399-408. 2011..The PI3K/AKT pathway was commonly activated in human cancers and was recognized as a potential target for anticancer therapy. Nonetheless, clinical, molecular, or prognostic features of AKT-activated colon cancer remained uncertain...
Genetic testing and risk assessment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)Shuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Hum Genet 111:477-500. 2002..New technologies, such as haploid analysis techniques, may be widely available in the future...
Bayesian analysis and risk assessment in genetic counseling and testingShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Mol Diagn 6:1-9. 2004..We illustrate herein the application of Bayes' theorem and describe important basic principles in genetic risk assessment...
Quantification of PCR bias caused by a single nucleotide polymorphism in SMN gene dosage analysisShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Mol Diagn 4:185-90. 2002..As additional clinically significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are discovered, assessment of PCR bias, and judicious selection of standards and controls, will be increasingly important for quantitative PCR assays...
Spinal muscular atrophy: molecular genetics and diagnosticsShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Amory 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Expert Rev Mol Diagn 4:15-29. 2004..New technologies, such as monosomal analysis techniques, may be widely available in the future...
Efficacy of cetuximab after treatment with oral epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor-based chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancerJeffrey A Meyerhardt
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Colorectal Cancer 6:59-65. 2006..Whether these results apply to other cancer types is unknown but worthy of further study...
Folate and vitamin B6 intake and risk of colon cancer in relation to p53 expressionEva S Schernhammer
Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Gastroenterology 135:770-80. 2008..In laboratory models, folate deficiency appears to induce p53 mutation...
Molecular classification and correlates in colorectal cancerShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Mol Diagn 10:13-27. 2008....
Inverse correlation between SMN1 and SMN2 copy numbers: evidence for gene conversion from SMN2 to SMN1Shuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Eur J Hum Genet 11:275-7. 2003..In conclusion, our data provide evidence that gene conversion from SMN2 to SMN1 occurs, and that SMN1 converted from SMN2 is present in the general population...
Comparison of PCR-RFLP with allele-specific PCR in genetic testing for spinal muscular atrophyRuliang Xu
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Genet Test 7:277-81. 2003..Our data indicate that PCR-RFLP can be used for most diagnostic purposes, whereas the use of allelespecific PCR may be considered with caution under certain circumstances...
KRAS mutation in stage III colon cancer and clinical outcome following intergroup trial CALGB 89803Shuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:7322-9. 2009....
Bayesian analysis for cystic fibrosis risks in prenatal and carrier screeningShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Genet Med 6:439-49. 2004..Our methods are particularly useful for calculating the CF disease risk for a fetus with echogenic bowel. In genetics practice, however, there are other scenarios for which our previous methods are inadequate...
New insights on the evolution of the SMN1 and SMN2 region: simulation and meta-analysis for allele and haplotype frequency calculationsShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Eur J Hum Genet 12:1015-23. 2004..Our data also suggest selection of the 1-1 haplotype and the presence of rare chromosomes with three copies of SMN1...
Sensitive sequencing method for KRAS mutation detection by PyrosequencingShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Mol Diagn 7:413-21. 2005..In addition, the applicability of this assay for DNA amplified by whole-genome amplification technique provides an expanded source of DNA for large-scale studies...
Molecular alterations in tumors and response to combination chemotherapy with gefitinib for advanced colorectal cancerShuji Ogino
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Cancer Res 11:6650-6. 2005..Abnormalities of EGFR and related pathways may have an effect on responsiveness of advanced colorectal cancer to combination chemotherapy with gefitinib...
p21 expression in colon cancer and modifying effects of patient age and body mass index on prognosisShuji Ogino
Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:2513-21. 2009..Patient BMI also differentially influences prognosis according to p21 CDKN1A status. Our data suggest host-tumor interactions influencing tumor aggressiveness...
Comment on SMN2 deletion in childhood-onset spinal muscular atrophyShuji Ogino
Am J Med Genet 109:243-4; author reply 245. 2002
DNA methylation, field effects, and colorectal cancerEdward Giovannucci
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:1317-9. 2005
Distinct molecular features of colorectal carcinoma with signet ring cell component and colorectal carcinoma with mucinous componentShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Mod Pathol 19:59-68. 2006..Signet ring cell carcinoma and mucinous carcinoma are related subtypes of colorectal adenocarcinoma, but have molecular features distinct from each other...
Risk calculations for cystic fibrosis in neonatal screening by immunoreactive trypsinogen and CFTR mutation testsShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Genet Med 7:317-27. 2005..Although neonatal screening (or newborn screening) for cystic fibrosis (CF) is commonly practiced, systematic methods for accurate risk calculations are currently lacking...
Bone morphogenetic proteins are expressed by both bone-forming and non-bone-forming lesionsJasvir S Khurana
Department of Pathology, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 128:1267-69. 2004..Skeletal metastases from epithelial tumors may be either bone-forming (blastic) or non-bone-forming (lytic)...
Inverse correlation between SMN1 and SMN2 copy numbers: evidence for gene conversion from SMN2 to SMN1Shuji Ogino
Eur J Hum Genet 11:723. 2003
The practice of science at its bestShuji Ogino
Fertil Steril 80:228-9; author reply 229. 2003
Genetic risk assessment in carrier testing for spinal muscular atrophyShuji Ogino
Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Med Genet 110:301-7. 2002..We present updated calculations for disease and non-disease allele frequencies and we describe how these frequencies can be used for genetic risk assessment in carrier testing for SMA...
SMN dosage analysis and risk assessment for spinal muscular atrophyShuji Ogino
Am J Hum Genet 70:1596-8; author reply 1598-9. 2002
Spinal muscular atrophy genetic testing experience at an academic medical centerShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Mol Diagn 4:53-8. 2002..We conclude that comprehensive SMA testing, including SMN1 deletion analysis, SMN1 gene dosage analysis, and linkage analysis, offers the most complete evaluation of SMA patients and their families...
The SIRT1 deacetylase suppresses intestinal tumorigenesis and colon cancer growthRon Firestein
Paul F Glenn Laboratories for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2020. 2008..Taken together, these observations show that SIRT1 suppresses intestinal tumor formation in vivo and raise the prospect that therapies targeting SIRT1 may be of clinical use in beta-catenin-driven malignancies...
Standard mutation nomenclature in molecular diagnostics: practical and educational challengesShuji Ogino
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Mol Diagn 9:1-6. 2007..Our aim is to alert laboratory scientists and other health care professionals to the important issues and provide a foundation for further discussions that will ultimately lead to solutions...
