• The circular RNome of primary breast cancer 

      Smid, Marcel; Wilting, Saskia M.; Uhr, Katharina; Rodríguez-González, F. Germán; de Weerd, Vanja; Prager-Van der Smissen, Wendy J.C.; van der Vlugt-Daane, Michelle; van Galen, Anne; Nik-Zainal, Serena; Butler, Adam; Martin, Sancha; Davies, Helen R.; Staaf, Johan; van de Vijver, Marc J.; Richardson, Andrea L.; Macgrogan, Gaëtan; Salgado, Roberto; van den Eynden, Gert G.G.M.; Purdie, Colin A.; Thompson, Alastair M.; Caldas, Carlos; Span, Paul N.; Sweep, Fred C.G.J.; Simpson, Peter T.; Lakhani, Sunil R.; Van Laere, Steven; Desmedt, Christine; Paradiso, Angelo; Eyfjord, Jorunn; Broeks, Annegien; Vincent-Salomon, Anne; Futreal, Andrew P.; Knappskog, Stian; King, Tari; Viari, Alain; Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise; Stunnenberg, Hendrik G.; Stratton, Mike; Foekens, John A.; Sieuwerts, Anieta M.; Martens, John W.M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of RNAs that is under increasing scrutiny, although their functional roles are debated. We analyzed RNA-seq data of 348 primary breast cancers and developed a method to identify circRNAs ...
    • Loss of epigenetic suppression of retrotransposons with oncogenic potential in aging mammary luminal epithelial cells 

      Senapati, Parijat; Miyano, Masaru; Sayaman, Rosalyn W.; Basam, Mudaser; Leung, Amy; LaBarge, Mark; Schones, Dustin E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      A primary function of DNA methylation in mammalian genomes is to repress transposable elements (TEs). The widespread methylation loss that is commonly observed in cancer cells results in the loss of epigenetic repression ...