Molecular Diagnostics in 2016

Tumour-derived alkaline phosphatase regulates tumour growth, epithelial plasticity and disease-free survival in metastatic prostate cancer

• S R Rao
• A E Snaith
• C M Edwards

Crowdsourcing for translational research: analysis of biomarker expression using cancer microarrays

• Jonathan Lawson
• Rupesh J Robinson-Vyas
• Peter Smittenaar

Increased micronucleus frequency in peripheral blood lymphocytes predicts the risk of bladder cancer

• Barbara Pardini
• Clara Viberti
• Giuseppe Matullo

Perivascular PDGFR-β is an independent marker for prognosis in renal cell carcinoma

• Magnus Frödin
• Artur Mezheyeuski
• Arne Östman

Prognostic impact of CD44-positive cancer stem-like cells at the invasive front of gastric cancer

• Hirokazu Kodama
• Satoshi Murata
• Masaji Tani

Breast cancer in neurofibromatosis type 1: overrepresentation of unfavourable prognostic factors

• Elina Uusitalo
• Roope A Kallionpää
• Juha Peltonen

Critical evaluation of the potential prognostic value of the pretreatment-derived neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio under consideration of C-reactive protein levels in clear cell renal cell carcinoma

• Orietta Dalpiaz
• Theresa Luef
• Martin Pichler

MicroRNA profiling in clear cell renal cell carcinoma tissues potentially links tumorigenesis and recurrence with obesity

• X Shu
• M A Hildebrandt
• X Wu

Methyl-CpG-binding domain 3 inhibits epithelial–mesenchymal transition in pancreatic cancer cells via TGF-β/Smad signalling

• Min Xu
• Junbo He
• Aihua Gong

Overexpression of PBK/TOPK relates to tumour malignant potential and poor outcome of gastric carcinoma

• Takuma Ohashi
• Shuhei Komatsu
• Eigo Otsuji

Expression profiling of budding cells in colorectal cancer reveals an EMT-like phenotype and molecular subtype switching

• Linde De Smedt
• Sofie Palmans
• Xavier Sagaert

A protein fragment derived from DNA-topoisomerase I as a novel tumour-associated antigen for the detection of early stage carcinoma

• Shang-mian Yie
• Shang-rong Ye
• Jie Zeng

Precision medicine in cancer: challenges and recommendations from an EU-funded cervical cancer biobanking study

• Sanne Samuels
• Balazs Balint
• Susy Scholl

Expression of somatostatin receptors 2 and 5 in circulating tumour cells from patients with neuroendocrine tumours

• Alexa Childs
• Clare Vesely
• Tim Meyer

microRNA-137 promotes apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells via the regulation of XIAP

• Xiaodi Li
• Wei Chen
• Songshan Jiang

Loss of KCNQ1 expression in stage II and stage III colon cancer is a strong prognostic factor for disease recurrence

• Sjoerd H den Uil
• Veerle M H Coupé
• Remond J A Fijneman

miR-146a-5p mediates epithelial–mesenchymal transition of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma via targeting Notch2

• Cong Wang
• Wenxue Zhang
• George M Yousef

Aldo-keto reductases are biomarkers of NRF2 activity and are co-ordinately overexpressed in non-small cell lung cancer

• A Kenneth MacLeod
• Lourdes Acosta-Jimenez
• C Roland Wolf

The FOXD3/miR-214/MED19 axis suppresses tumour growth and metastasis in human colorectal cancer

• G Y He
• J L Hu
• L Liang

No association of CpG island methylator phenotype and colorectal cancer survival: population-based study

• Min Jia
• Lina Jansen
• Michael Hoffmeister