Editor's Summary
6 December 2007
Oncogene unmasked
A wide-ranging overview of genetic alterations in lung adenocarcinomas, published in this issue, takes a new approach to genome analysis. The analysis of 371 tumours revealed 31 recurrent focal events, only six of which were known previously in lung carcinomas. A new candidate oncogene, TITF1, was found to be significant in a large number of lung cancers. This work shows that there are many more important cancer-related genes still undiscovered, and that systematic genomic study can reveal them.
Letter: Characterizing the cancer genome in lung adenocarcinoma
Barbara A. Weir, Michele S. Woo, Gad Getz, Sven Perner, Li Ding, Rameen Beroukhim, William M. Lin, Michael A. Province, Aldi Kraja, Laura A. Johnson, Kinjal Shah, Mitsuo Sato, Roman K. Thomas, Justine A. Barletta, Ingrid B. Borecki, Stephen Broderick, Andrew C. Chang, Derek Y. Chiang, Lucian R. Chirieac, Jeonghee Cho, Yoshitaka Fujii, Adi F. Gazdar, Thomas Giordano, Heidi Greulich, Megan Hanna, Bruce E. Johnson, Mark G. Kris, Alex Lash, Ling Lin, Neal Lindeman, Elaine R. Mardis, John D. McPherson, John D. Minna, Margaret B. Morgan, Mark Nadel, Mark B. Orringer, John R. Osborne, Brad Ozenberger, Alex H. Ramos, James Robinson, Jack A. Roth, Valerie Rusch, Hidefumi Sasaki, Frances Shepherd, Carrie Sougnez, Margaret R. Spitz, Ming-Sound Tsao, David Twomey, Roel G. W. Verhaak, George M. Weinstock, David A. Wheeler, Wendy Winckler, Akihiko Yoshizawa, Soyoung Yu, Maureen F. Zakowski, Qunyuan Zhang, David G. Beer, Ignacio I. Wistuba, Mark A. Watson, Levi A. Garraway, Marc Ladanyi, William D. Travis, William Pao, Mark A. Rubin, Stacey B. Gabriel, Richard A. Gibbs, Harold E. Varmus, Richard K. Wilson, Eric S. Lander & Matthew Meyerson
doi:10.1038/nature06358
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