• Frequent somatic transfer of mitochondrial DNA into the nuclear genome of human cancer cells 

      Ju, Young Seok; Tubio, José M.C.; Mifsud, William; Fu, Beiyuan; Davies, Helen R; Ramakrishna, Manasa; Li, Yilong; Yates, Lucy; Gundem, Gunes; Tarpey, Patrick S.; Behjati, Sam; Papaemmanuil, Elli; Martin, Sancha; Fullam, Anthony; Gerstung, Moritz; Nangalia, Jyoti; Green, Anthony R.; Caldas, Carlos; Borg, Åke; Tutt, Andrew; Michael Lee, Ming Ta; Van't Veer, Laura J.; Tan, Benita K.T.; Aparicio, Samuel; Span, Paul N.; Martens, John W.M.; Knappskog, Stian; Vincent-Salomon, Anne; Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise; Eyfjörd, Jorunn Erla; Flanagan, Adrienne M.; Foster, Christopher; Neal, David E.; Cooper, Colin; Eeles, Rosalind; Lakhani, Sunil R.; Desmedt, Christine; Thomas, Gilles; Richardson, Andrea L.; Purdie, Colin A.; Thompson, Alastair M.; McDermott, Ultan; Yang, Fengtang; Nik-Zainal, Serena; Campbell, Peter J.; Stratton, Michael R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      Mitochondrial genomes are separated from the nuclear genome for most of the cell cycle by the nuclear double membrane, intervening cytoplasm, and the mitochondrial double membrane. Despite these physical barriers, we show ...
    • Obesity-associated changes in molecular biology of primary breast cancer 

      Nguyen, Ha-Linh; Geukens, Tatjana; Maetens, Marion; Aparicio, Samuel; Bassez, Ayse; Borg, Ake; Brock, Jane; Broeks, Annegien; Caldas, Carlos; Cardoso, Fatima; De Schepper, Maxim; Delorenzi, Mauro; Drukker, Caroline A.; Glas, Annuska M.; Green, Andrew R.; Isnaldi, Edoardo; Eyfjörð, Jórunn; Khout, Hazem; Knappskog, Stian; Krishnamurthy, Savitri; Lakhani, Sunil R.; Langerød, Anita; Martens, John W. M.; McCart Reed, Amy E.; Murphy, Leigh; Naulaerts, Stefan; Nik-Zainal, Serena; Nevelsteen, Ines; Neven, Patrick; Piccart, Martine; Poncet, Coralie; Punie, Kevin; Purdie, Colin; Rakha, Emad A.; Richardson, Andrea; Rutgers, Emiel; Vincent-Salomon, Anne; Simpson, Peter T.; Schmidt, Marjanka K.; Sotiriou, Christos; Span, Paul N.; Tan, Kiat Tee Benita; Thompson, Alastair; Tommasi, Stefania; Van Baelen, Karen; Van de Vijver, Marc; Van Laere, Steven; van’t Veer, Laura; Viale, Giuseppe; Viari, Alain; Vos, Hanne; Witteveen, Anke T.; Wildiers, Hans; Floris, Giuseppe; Garg, Abhishek D.; Smeets, Ann; Lambrechts, Diether; Biganzoli, Elia; Richard, François; Desmedt, Christine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Obesity is associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer (BC) and worse prognosis in BC patients, yet its impact on BC biology remains understudied in humans. This study investigates how the biology of ...