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Epigenetic and transcriptional analysis reveals a core transcriptional program conserved in clonal prostate cancer metastases. Mol Oncol. 2021 Feb 11. doi: 10.1002/1878-0261.12923. Online ahead of print.PMID: 33576154
Haffner MC, Zwart W, Roudier MP, True LD, Nelson WG, Epstein JI, De Marzo AM, Nelson PS, Yegnasubramanian S. Genomic and phenotypic heterogeneity in prostate cancer. Nat Rev Urol. 2020 Dec 16. doi: 10.1038/s41585-020-00400-w. PMID: 33328650. [review]
Nauen DW, Haffner MC, Kim J, Zheng Q, Yin H, DeMarzo AM, Mahairaki V, Colantuoni C, Pickering JG, Johnson TP. Putative Autoantigen Leiomodin-1 Is Expressed in the Human Brain and in the Membrane Fraction of Newly Formed Neurons. Pathogens. 2020 Dec 10;9(12):1036. doi: 10.3390/pathogens9121036. PMID: 33321732. [original work]
Charmpi K, Guo T, Zhong Q, Wagner U, Sun R, Toussaint NC, Fritz CE, Yuan C, Chen H, Rupp NJ, Christiansen A, Rutishauser D, Rüschoff JH, Fankhauser C, Saba K, Poyet C, Hermanns T, Oehl K, Moore AL, Beisel C, Calzone L, Martignetti L, Zhang Q, Zhu Y, Martínez MR, Manica M, Haffner MC, Aebersold R, Wild PJ, Beyer A. Convergent network effects along the axis of gene expression during prostate cancer progression. Genome Biol. 2020 Dec 14;21(1):302. doi: 10.1186/s13059-020-02188-9. PMID: 33317623. [original work]
DeLucia DC, Cardillo TM, Ang L, Labrecque MP, Zhang A, Hopkins JE, De Sarkar N, Coleman I, da Costa RMG, Corey E, True LD, Haffner MC, Schweizer MT, Morrissey C, Nelson PS, Lee JK. Regulation of CEACAM5 and Therapeutic Efficacy of an Anti-CEACAM5-SN38 Antibody-drug Conjugate in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Nov 16. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-3396. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33199493. [original work]
Kwon OJ, Zhang L, Jia D, Zhou Z, Li Z, Haffner M, Lee JK, True L, Morrissey C, Xin L. Oncogene. De novo induction of lineage plasticity from human prostate luminal epithelial cells by activated AKT1 and c-Myc.2020 Nov;39(48):7142-7151. doi: 10.1038/s41388-020-01487-6. PMID: 33009488. [original work]
Wise DR, Schneider JA, Armenia J, Febles VA, McLaughlin B, Brennan R, Thoren KL, Abida W, Sfanos KS, De Marzo AM, Yegnasubramanian S, Fox JJ, Haas M, Heath H, Kagey MH, Newman W, Sirard CA, Fleisher M, Morris MJ, Chen Y, Larson SM, Haffner MC, Nelson PS, Schultz N, Garabedian MJ, Scher HI, Logan SK, Sawyers CL; Dickkopf-1 Can Lead to Immune Evasion in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. International SU2C/PCF Prostate Cancer Dream Team. JCO Precis Oncol. 2020 Sep 29;4:PO.20.00097. doi: 10.1200/PO.20.00097. PMID: 33015525. [original work]
Neumann NM, Haffner MC, Argani P, Kao CS, Epstein JI. Am J Surg Histopathologic Characterization of Bladder Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasms (PEComa): A Series of 11 Cases With a Subset Having TFE3 Rearrangements. Pathol. 2020 Sep 29. doi: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000001592. PMID: 33002920. [original work]
Esopi D, Graham MK, Brosnan-Cashman JA, Meyers J, Vaghasia A, Gupta A, Kumar B, Haffner MC, Heaphy CM, De Marzo AM, Meeker AK, Nelson WG, Wheelan SJ, Yegnasubramanian S. Pervasive promoter hypermethylation of silenced TERT alleles in human cancers. Cell Oncol (Dordr). 2020 Oct;43(5):847-861. doi: 10.1007/s13402-020-00531-7. PMID: 32468444. [original work]
Heaphy CM, Haffner MC, Graham MK, Lim D, Davis C, Corey E, Epstein JI, Eisenberger MA, Wang H, De Marzo AM, Meeker AK, Lotan TL. Telomere lengths differ significantly between small-cell neuroendocrine prostate carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the prostate. Hum Pathol. 2020 Jul;101:70-79. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2020.04.014. PMID: 32389660. [original work]
Chen J, Zheng Q, Peiffer LB, Hicks JL, Haffner MC, Rosenberg AZ, Levi M, Wang XX, Ozbek B, Baena-Del Valle J, Yegnasubramanian S, De Marzo AM. Am J An in Situ Atlas of Mitochondrial DNA in Mammalian Tissues Reveals High Content in Stem and Proliferative Compartments.Pathol. 2020 Jul;190(7):1565-1579. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2020.03.018. PMID: 32304697. [original work]
Haffner MC, Salles DC, Gao G, Epstein JI. Gleason pattern 4 with cribriform morphology on biopsy is associated with adverse clinicopathological findings in a prospective radical prostatectomy cohort. Hum Pathol. 2020 Apr;98:74-80. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2020.02.004. PMID: 32119879. [original work]
Al-Hussain T, Haffner MC, Altaweel WM, Epstein JI. Plasmacytoid acinar adenocarcinoma of the prostate: a newly described variant of prostate cancer. Hum Pathol. 2019 Dec;94:86-91. PMID: 31698007 [original work]
Graham MK, Kim J, Da J, Brosnan-Cashman JA, Rizzo A, Baena Del Valle JA, Chia L, Rubenstein M, Davis C, Zheng Q, Cope L, Considine M, Haffner MC, De Marzo AM, Meeker AK, Heaphy CM. Functional Loss of ATRX and TERC Activates Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) in LAPC4 Prostate Cancer Cells. Mol Cancer Res. 2019 Dec;17(12):2480-2491. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0654. PMID: 31611308 [original work]
Tomasetti C, Poling J, Roberts NJ, London NR Jr, Pittman ME, Haffner MC, Rizzo A, Baras A, Karim B, Kim A, Heaphy CM, Meeker AK, Hruban RH, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Vogelstein B. Cell division rates decrease with age, providing a potential explanation for the age-dependent deceleration in cancer incidence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Oct 8;116(41):20482-20488. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1905722116. PMID: 31548407 [original work]
Porter CM, Haffner MC, Kulac I, Maynard JP, Baena-Del Valle JA, Isaacs WB, Yegnasubramanian S, De Marzo AM, Sfanos KS. Am J Lactoferrin CpG Island Hypermethylation and Decoupling of mRNA and Protein Expression in the Early Stages of Prostate Carcinogenesis. Pathol. 2019 Nov;189(11):2311-2322. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2019.07.016. PMID: 31499027 [original work]
Hughes RM, Simons BW, Khan H, Miller R, Kugler V, Torquato S, Theodros D, Haffner MC, Lotan T, Huang J, Davicioni E, An SS, Riddle RC, Thorek DLJ, Garraway IP, Fertig EJ, Isaacs JT, Brennen WN, Park BH, Hurley PJ. Asporin Restricts Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Differentiation, Alters the Tumor Microenvironment, and Drives Metastatic Progression. Cancer Res. 2019 Jul 15;79(14):3636-3650. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-2931.. PMID: 31123087 [original work]
Trabzonlu L, Kulac I, Zheng Q, Hicks JL, Haffner MC, Nelson WG, Sfanos KS, Ertunc O, Lotan TL, Heaphy CM, Meeker AK, Yegnasubramanian S, De Marzo AM. Molecular Pathology of High-Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia: Challenges and Opportunities. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. 2019 Apr 1;9(4). doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a030403. Review. PubMed PMID: 30082453.
Sfanos KS, Yegnasubramanian S, Nelson WG, Lotan TL, Kulac I, Hicks JL, Zheng Q, Bieberich CJ, Haffner MC, De Marzo AM. If this is true, what does it imply? How end-user antibody validation facilitates insights into biology and disease. Asian J Urol. 2019 Jan;6(1):10-25. doi: 10.1016/j.ajur.2018.11.006.. PMID: 30775245 [original work]
Gallia GL, Zhang M, Ning Y, Haffner MC, Batista D, Binder ZA, Bishop JA, Hann CL, Hruban RH, Ishii M, Klein AP, Reh DD, Rooper LM, Salmasi V, Tamargo RJ, Wang Q, Williamson T, Zhao T, Zou Y, Meeker AK, Agrawal N, Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, Papadopoulos N, Bettegowda C. Genomic analysis identifies frequent deletions of Dystrophin in olfactory neuroblastoma. Nat Commun. 2018 Dec 21;9(1):5410. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07578-z. PMID: 30575736 [original work]
Deek MP, Phillips RM, Haffner M, Tran PT. Is Androgen Deprivation Therapy "Another Deficient Therapy" for Gleason Score 9-10 Prostate Cancer?. Eur Urol. 2019 Jan;75(1):42-43. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2018.09.027. Epub 2018 Sep 26. PubMed PMID: 30268657; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6330049.
Haffner MC, Taheri D, Luidy-Imada E, Palsgrove DN, Eich ML, Netto GJ, Matoso A, Nirschl TR, Zheng Q, Hicks JL, Nelson WG, De Marzo AM, Marchionni L, Drake CG, Yegnasubramanian S. Hypomethylation, endogenous retrovirus expression, and interferon signaling in testicular germ cell tumors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Sep 11;115(37):E8580-E8582. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1803292115. Epub 2018 Sep 4. PubMed PMID: 30181298; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6140483.
Mottahedeh J, Haffner MC, Grogan TR, Hashimoto T, Crowell PD, Beltran H, Sboner A, Bareja R, Esopi D, Isaacs WB, Yegnasubramanian S, Rettig MB, Elashoff DA, Platz EA, De Marzo AM, Teitell MA, Goldstein AS. CD38 is methylated in prostate cancer and regulates extracellular NAD. Cancer Metab. 2018;6:13. doi: 10.1186/s40170-018-0186-3. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 30258629; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6150989.
Nix JS, Haffner MC, Ahsan S, Hicks J, De Marzo AM, Blakeley J, Raabe EH, Rodriguez FJ. Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors Show Decreased Global DNA Methylation. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2018 Oct 1;77(10):958-963. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nly076. PubMed PMID: 30169729.
Boudadi K, Suzman DL, Anagnostou V, Fu W, Luber B, Wang H, Niknafs N, White JR, Silberstein JL, Sullivan R, Dowling D, Harb R, Nirschl TR, Veeneman BA, Tomlins SA, Wang Y, Jendrisak A, Graf RP, Dittamore R, Carducci MA, Eisenberger MA, Haffner MC, Meeker AK, Eshleman JR, Luo J, Velculescu VE, Drake CG, Antonarakis ES. Ipilimumab plus nivolumab and DNA-repair defects in AR-V7-expressing metastatic prostate cancer. Oncotarget. 2018 Jun 19;9(47):28561-28571. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.25564. eCollection 2018 Jun 19. PubMed PMID: 29983880; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6033362.
Munari E, Rossi G, Zamboni G, Lunardi G, Marconi M, Sommaggio M, Netto GJ, Hoque MO, Brunelli M, Martignoni G, Haffner MC, Moretta F, Pegoraro MC, Cavazza A, Samogin G, Furlan V, Mariotti FR, Vacca P, Moretta L, Bogina G. PD-L1 Assays 22C3 and SP263 are Not Interchangeable in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer When Considering Clinically Relevant Cutoffs: An Interclone Evaluation by Differently Trained Pathologists. Am J Surg Pathol. 2018 Oct;42(10):1384-1389. doi: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000001105. PubMed PMID: 29901568.
Nelson WG, Haffner MC, Yegnasubramanian S. The structure of the nucleus in normal and neoplastic prostate cells: untangling the role of type 2 DNA topoisomerases. Am J Clin Exp Urol. 2018;6(2):107-113. eCollection 2018. Review. PubMed PMID: 29666839; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5902729.
Haffner MC, Guner G, Taheri D, Netto GJ, Palsgrove DN, Zheng Q, Guedes LB, Kim K, Tsai H, Esopi DM, Lotan TL, Sharma R, Meeker AK, Chinnaiyan AM, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S, Luo J, Mehra R, Antonarakis ES, Drake CG, De Marzo AM. Comprehensive Evaluation of Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Expression in Primary and Metastatic Prostate Cancer. Am J Pathol. 2018 Jun;188(6):1478-1485. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2018.02.014. Epub 2018 Mar 22. PubMed PMID: 29577933; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5971230.
Naseruddin Höti , Tung-Shing Lih , Jianbo Pan , Yangying Zhou , Ganglong Yang , Ashely Deng , Lijun Chen , Mingmimg Dong , Ruey-Bing Yang , Cheng-Fen Tu , Michael C Haffner, Qing Kay Li, Hui Zhang. A Comprehensive Analysis of FUT8 Overexpressing Prostate Cancer Cells Reveals the Role of EGFR in Castration Resistance. Cancers (Basel). 2020 Feb 18;12(2):468. doi: 10.3390/cancers12020468. PubMed PMID: 32085441; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7072180.
Höti N, Yang S, Hu Y, Shah P, Haffner MC, Zhang H. Overexpression of α (1,6) fucosyltransferase in the development of castration-resistant prostate cancer cells. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2018 Apr;21(1):137-146. doi: 10.1038/s41391-017-0016-7. Epub 2018 Jan 16. PubMed PMID: 29339807; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5895601.
Guedes LB, Almutairi F, Haffner MC, Rajoria G, Liu Z, Klimek S, Zoino R, Yousefi K, Sharma R, De Marzo AM, Netto GJ, Isaacs WB, Ross AE, Schaeffer EM, Lotan TL. Analytic, Preanalytic, and Clinical Validation of p53 IHC for Detection of TP53 Missense Mutation in Prostate Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Aug 15;23(16):4693-4703. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-0257. Epub 2017 Apr 26. PubMed PMID: 28446506; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5559307.
Haffner MC, Esopi DM, Chaux A, Gürel M, Ghosh S, Vaghasia AM, Tsai H, Kim K, Castagna N, Lam H, Hicks J, Wyhs N, Biswal Shinohara D, Hurley PJ, Simons BW, Schaeffer EM, Lotan TL, Isaacs WB, Netto GJ, De Marzo AM, Nelson WG, An SS, Yegnasubramanian S. AIM1 is an actin-binding protein that suppresses cell migration and micrometastatic dissemination. Nat Commun. 2017 Jul 26;8(1):142. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00084-8. PubMed PMID: 28747635; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5529512.
Benzon B, Zhao SG, Haffner MC, Takhar M, Erho N, Yousefi K, Hurley P, Bishop JL, Tosoian J, Ghabili K, Alshalalfa M, Glavaris S, Simons BW, Tran P, Davicioni E, Karnes RJ, Boudadi K, Antonarakis ES, Schaeffer EM, Drake CG, Feng F, Ross AE. Correlation of B7-H3 with androgen receptor, immune pathways and poor outcome in prostate cancer: an expression-based analysis. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2017 Mar;20(1):28-35. doi: 10.1038/pcan.2016.49. Epub 2016 Nov 1. PubMed PMID: 27801901; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6512966.
Guedes LB, Morais CL, Almutairi F, Haffner MC, Zheng Q, Isaacs JT, Antonarakis ES, Lu C, Tsai H, Luo J, De Marzo AM, Lotan TL. Analytic Validation of RNA In Situ Hybridization (RISH) for AR and AR-V7 Expression in Human Prostate Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2016 Sep 15;22(18):4651-63. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-0205. Epub 2016 May 10. PubMed PMID: 27166397; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5026571.
De Marzo AM, Haffner MC, Lotan TL, Yegnasubramanian S, Nelson WG. Premalignancy in Prostate Cancer: Rethinking What we Know. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2016 Aug;9(8):648-56. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-15-0431. Epub 2016 Jan 26. Review. PubMed PMID: 26813971.
Hedayati M, Haffner MC, Coulter JB, Raval RR, Zhang Y, Zhou H, Mian O, Knight EJ, Razavi N, Dalrymple S, Isaacs JT, Santos A, Hales R, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S, DeWeese TL. Androgen Deprivation Followed by Acute Androgen Stimulation Selectively Sensitizes AR-Positive Prostate Cancer Cells to Ionizing Radiation. Clin Cancer Res. 2016 Jul 1;22(13):3310-3319. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-1147. Epub 2016 Feb 1. PubMed PMID: 26831716; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4930695.
Zhong Q, Rüschoff JH, Guo T, Gabrani M, Schüffler PJ, Rechsteiner M, Liu Y, Fuchs TJ, Rupp NJ, Fankhauser C, Buhmann JM, Perner S, Poyet C, Blattner M, Soldini D, Moch H, Rubin MA, Noske A, Rüschoff J, Haffner MC, Jochum W, Wild PJ. Image-based computational quantification and visualization of genetic alterations and tumour heterogeneity. Sci Rep. 2016 Apr 7;6:24146. doi: 10.1038/srep24146. PubMed PMID: 27052161; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4823793.
Munari E, Chaux A, Vaghasia AM, Taheri D, Karram S, Bezerra SM, Gonzalez Roibon N, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S, Netto GJ, Haffner MC. Global 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Levels Are Profoundly Reduced in Multiple Genitourinary Malignancies. PLoS One. 2016;11(1):e0146302. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146302. eCollection 2016. PubMed PMID: 26785262; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4718593.
Haffner MC, Weier C, Xu MM, Vaghasia A, Gürel B, Gümüşkaya B, Esopi DM, Fedor H, Tan HL, Kulac I, Hicks J, Isaacs WB, Lotan TL, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S, De Marzo AM. Molecular evidence that invasive adenocarcinoma can mimic prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) and intraductal carcinoma through retrograde glandular colonization. J Pathol. 2016 Jan;238(1):31-41. doi: 10.1002/path.4628. Epub 2015 Oct 14. PubMed PMID: 26331372; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4715537.
Haffner MC, Barbieri CE. Shifting Paradigms for High-grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia. Eur Urol. 2016 May;69(5):831-3. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2015.11.020. Epub 2015 Dec 2. PubMed PMID: 26651925.
Hurley PJ, Hughes RM, Simons BW, Huang J, Miller RM, Shinder B, Haffner MC, Esopi D, Kimura Y, Jabbari J, Ross AE, Erho N, Vergara IA, Faraj SF, Davicioni E, Netto GJ, Yegnasubramanian S, An SS, Schaeffer EM. Androgen-Regulated SPARCL1 in the Tumor Microenvironment Inhibits Metastatic Progression. Cancer Res. 2015 Oct 15;75(20):4322-34. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-15-0024. Epub 2015 Aug 20. PubMed PMID: 26294211; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4609262.
Abdollah F, Dalela D, Haffner MC, Culig Z, Schalken J. The Role of Biomarkers and Genetics in the Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol Focus. 2015 Sep;1(2):99-108. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2015.08.001. Epub 2015 Aug 28. Review. PubMed PMID: 28723439.
Kulac I, Haffner MC, Yegnasubramanian S, Epstein JI, De Marzo AM. Should Gleason 6 be labeled as cancer?. Curr Opin Urol. 2015 May;25(3):238-45. doi: 10.1097/MOU.0000000000000165. Review. PubMed PMID: 25730327; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4878816.
Haffner MC, De Marzo AM, Yegnasubramanian S, Epstein JI, Carter HB. Diagnostic challenges of clonal heterogeneity in prostate cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Mar 1;33(7):e38-40. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2013.50.3540. Epub 2014 Mar 17. PubMed PMID: 24638011.
Tan HL, Haffner MC, Esopi DM, Vaghasia AM, Giannico GA, Ross HM, Ghosh S, Hicks JL, Zheng Q, Sangoi AR, Yegnasubramanian S, Osunkoya AO, De Marzo AM, Epstein JI, Lotan TL. Prostate adenocarcinomas aberrantly expressing p63 are molecularly distinct from usual-type prostatic adenocarcinomas. Mod Pathol. 2015 Mar;28(3):446-56. doi: 10.1038/modpathol.2014.115. Epub 2014 Sep 12. PubMed PMID: 25216229; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4344845.
Schweizer MT, Antonarakis ES, Wang H, Ajiboye AS, Spitz A, Cao H, Luo J, Haffner MC, Yegnasubramanian S, Carducci MA, Eisenberger MA, Isaacs JT, Denmeade SR. Effect of bipolar androgen therapy for asymptomatic men with castration-resistant prostate cancer: results from a pilot clinical study. Sci Transl Med. 2015 Jan 7;7(269):269ra2. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3010563. PubMed PMID: 25568070; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4507510.
Ahsan S, Raabe EH, Haffner MC, Vaghasia A, Warren KE, Quezado M, Ballester LY, Nazarian J, Eberhart CG, Rodriguez FJ. Increased 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and decreased 5-methylcytosine are indicators of global epigenetic dysregulation in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2014 Jun 3;2:59. doi: 10.1186/2051-5960-2-59. PubMed PMID: 24894482; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4229804.
Sharad S, Ravindranath L, Haffner MC, Li H, Yan W, Sesterhenn IA, Chen Y, Ali A, Srinivasan A, McLeod DG, Yegnasubramanian S, Srivastava S, Dobi A, Petrovics G. Methylation of the PMEPA1 gene, a negative regulator of the androgen receptor in prostate cancer. Epigenetics. 2014 Jun;9(6):918-27. doi: 10.4161/epi.28710. Epub 2014 Apr 2. PubMed PMID: 24694733; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4065188.
Chaux A, Cubilla AL, Haffner MC, Lecksell KL, Sharma R, Burnett AL, Netto GJ. Combining routine morphology, p16(INK4a) immunohistochemistry, and in situ hybridization for the detection of human papillomavirus infection in penile carcinomas: a tissue microarray study using classifier performance analyses. Urol Oncol. 2014 Feb;32(2):171-7. doi: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2012.04.017. Epub 2013 Mar 14. PubMed PMID: 23499169.
Haffner MC, Mosbruger T, Esopi DM, Fedor H, Heaphy CM, Walker DA, Adejola N, Gürel M, Hicks J, Meeker AK, Halushka MK, Simons JW, Isaacs WB, De Marzo AM, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S. Tracking the clonal origin of lethal prostate cancer. J Clin Invest. 2013 Nov;123(11):4918-22. doi: 10.1172/JCI70354. Epub 2013 Oct 25. PubMed PMID: 24135135; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3809798.
Haffner MC, Pellakuru LG, Ghosh S, Lotan TL, Nelson WG, De Marzo AM, Yegnasubramanian S. Tight correlation of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and Polycomb marks in health and disease. Cell Cycle. 2013 Jun 15;12(12):1835-41. doi: 10.4161/cc.25010. Epub 2013 May 15. PubMed PMID: 23676216; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3735697.
Weier C, Haffner MC, Mosbruger T, Esopi DM, Hicks J, Zheng Q, Fedor H, Isaacs WB, De Marzo AM, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S. Nucleotide resolution analysis of TMPRSS2 and ERG rearrangements in prostate cancer. J Pathol. 2013 Jun;230(2):174-83. doi: 10.1002/path.4186. PubMed PMID: 23447416; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3668093.
Gumuskaya B, Gurel B, Fedor H, Tan HL, Weier CA, Hicks JL, Haffner MC, Lotan TL, De Marzo AM. Assessing the order of critical alterations in prostate cancer development and progression by IHC: further evidence that PTEN loss occurs subsequent to ERG gene fusion. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2013 Jun;16(2):209-15. doi: 10.1038/pcan.2013.8. Epub 2013 Apr 2. PubMed PMID: 23545904; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3774596.
Gerber JM, Gucwa JL, Esopi D, Gurel M, Haffner MC, Vala M, Nelson WG, Jones RJ, Yegnasubramanian S. Genome-wide comparison of the transcriptomes of highly enriched normal and chronic myeloid leukemia stem and progenitor cell populations. Oncotarget. 2013 May;4(5):715-28. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.990. PubMed PMID: 23651669; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3742832.
Aryee MJ, Liu W, Engelmann JC, Nuhn P, Gurel M, Haffner MC, Esopi D, Irizarry RA, Getzenberg RH, Nelson WG, Luo J, Xu J, Isaacs WB, Bova GS, Yegnasubramanian S. DNA methylation alterations exhibit intraindividual stability and interindividual heterogeneity in prostate cancer metastases. Sci Transl Med. 2013 Jan 23;5(169):169ra10. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3005211. PubMed PMID: 23345608; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3577373.
Haffner MC, Laimer J, Chaux A, Schäfer G, Obrist P, Brunner A, Kronberger IE, Laimer K, Gurel B, Koller JB, Seifarth C, Zelger B, Klocker H, Rasse M, Doppler W, Bander NH. High expression of prostate-specific membrane antigen in the tumor-associated neo-vasculature is associated with worse prognosis in squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. Mod Pathol. 2012 Aug;25(8):1079-85. doi: 10.1038/modpathol.2012.66. Epub 2012 Mar 30. PubMed PMID: 22460809.
Orr BA, Haffner MC, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S, Eberhart CG. Decreased 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is associated with neural progenitor phenotype in normal brain and shorter survival in malignant glioma. PLoS One. 2012;7(7):e41036. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041036. Epub 2012 Jul 19. PubMed PMID: 22829908; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3400598.
Toubaji A, Albadine R, Meeker AK, Isaacs WB, Lotan T, Haffner MC, Chaux A, Epstein JI, Han M, Walsh PC, Partin AW, De Marzo AM, Platz EA, Netto GJ. Increased gene copy number of ERG on chromosome 21 but not TMPRSS2-ERG fusion predicts outcome in prostatic adenocarcinomas. Mod Pathol. 2011 Nov;24(11):1511-20. doi: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.111. Epub 2011 Jul 8. PubMed PMID: 21743434; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3360950.
Haffner MC, Chaux A, Meeker AK, Esopi DM, Gerber J, Pellakuru LG, Toubaji A, Argani P, Iacobuzio-Donahue C, Nelson WG, Netto GJ, De Marzo AM, Yegnasubramanian S. Global 5-hydroxymethylcytosine content is significantly reduced in tissue stem/progenitor cell compartments and in human cancers. Oncotarget. 2011 Aug;2(8):627-37. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.316. PubMed PMID: 21896958; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3248214.
Nelson WG, Haffner MC, Yegnasubramanian S. Beefing up prostate cancer therapy with performance-enhancing (anti-) steroids. Cancer Cell. 2011 Jul 12;20(1):7-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2011.06.019. PubMed PMID: 21741594; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4479125.
Haffner MC, De Marzo AM, Meeker AK, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S. Transcription-induced DNA double strand breaks: both oncogenic force and potential therapeutic target?. Clin Cancer Res. 2011 Jun 15;17(12):3858-64. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-10-2044. Epub 2011 Mar 8. PubMed PMID: 21385925; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3117909.
Yegnasubramanian S, Wu Z, Haffner MC, Esopi D, Aryee MJ, Badrinath R, He TL, Morgan JD, Carvalho B, Zheng Q, De Marzo AM, Irizarry RA, Nelson WG. Chromosome-wide mapping of DNA methylation patterns in normal and malignant prostate cells reveals pervasive methylation of gene-associated and conserved intergenic sequences. BMC Genomics. 2011 Jun 13;12:313. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-313. PubMed PMID: 21669002; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3124442.
Lotan TL, Gupta NS, Wang W, Toubaji A, Haffner MC, Chaux A, Hicks JL, Meeker AK, Bieberich CJ, De Marzo AM, Epstein JI, Netto GJ. ERG gene rearrangements are common in prostatic small cell carcinomas. Mod Pathol. 2011 Jun;24(6):820-8. doi: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.7. Epub 2011 Feb 18. PubMed PMID: 21336263; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3484363.
Lin J, Haffner MC, Zhang Y, Lee BH, Brennen WN, Britton J, Kachhap SK, Shim JS, Liu JO, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S, Carducci MA. Disulfiram is a DNA demethylating agent and inhibits prostate cancer cell growth. Prostate. 2011 Mar 1;71(4):333-43. doi: 10.1002/pros.21247. Epub 2010 Aug 31. PubMed PMID: 20809552; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3043358.
Hector A, Montgomery EA, Karikari C, Canto M, Dunbar KB, Wang JS, Feldmann G, Hong SM, Haffner MC, Meeker AK, Holland SJ, Yu J, Heckrodt TJ, Zhang J, Ding P, Goff D, Singh R, Roa JC, Marimuthu A, Riggins GJ, Eshleman JR, Nelkin BD, Pandey A, Maitra A. The Axl receptor tyrosine kinase is an adverse prognostic factor and a therapeutic target in esophageal adenocarcinoma. Cancer Biol Ther. 2010 Nov 15;10(10):1009-18. doi: 10.4161/cbt.10.10.13248. Epub 2010 Nov 15. PubMed PMID: 20818175; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3025816.
Haffner MC, Aryee MJ, Toubaji A, Esopi DM, Albadine R, Gurel B, Isaacs WB, Bova GS, Liu W, Xu J, Meeker AK, Netto G, De Marzo AM, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S. Androgen-induced TOP2B-mediated double-strand breaks and prostate cancer gene rearrangements. Nat Genet. 2010 Aug;42(8):668-75. doi: 10.1038/ng.613. Epub 2010 Jul 4. PubMed PMID: 20601956; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3157086.
Mühlmann G, Untergasser G, Zitt M, Zitt M, Maier H, Mikuz G, Kronberger IE, Haffner MC, Gunsilius E, Ofner D. Immunohistochemically detectable dickkopf-3 expression in tumor vessels predicts survival in gastric cancer. Virchows Arch. 2010 Jun;456(6):635-46. doi: 10.1007/s00428-010-0926-4. Epub 2010 May 15. PubMed PMID: 20473620.
Haffner MC, Kronberger IE, Ross JS, Sheehan CE, Zitt M, Mühlmann G, Ofner D, Zelger B, Ensinger C, Yang XJ, Geley S, Margreiter R, Bander NH. Prostate-specific membrane antigen expression in the neovasculature of gastric and colorectal cancers. Hum Pathol. 2009 Dec;40(12):1754-61. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2009.06.003. Epub 2009 Aug 27. PubMed PMID: 19716160.
Albadine R, Latour M, Toubaji A, Haffner M, Isaacs WB, A Platz E, Meeker AK, Demarzo AM, Epstein JI, Netto GJ. TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion status in minute (minimal) prostatic adenocarcinoma. Mod Pathol. 2009 Nov;22(11):1415-22. doi: 10.1038/modpathol.2009.121. Epub 2009 Sep 4. PubMed PMID: 19734849; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3354529.
Ribas J, Ni X, Haffner M, Wentzel EA, Salmasi AH, Chowdhury WH, Kudrolli TA, Yegnasubramanian S, Luo J, Rodriguez R, Mendell JT, Lupold SE. miR-21: an androgen receptor-regulated microRNA that promotes hormone-dependent and hormone-independent prostate cancer growth. Cancer Res. 2009 Sep 15;69(18):7165-9. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-1448. Epub 2009 Sep 8. PubMed PMID: 19738047; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2861586.
Yegnasubramanian S, Haffner MC, Zhang Y, Gurel B, Cornish TC, Wu Z, Irizarry RA, Morgan J, Hicks J, DeWeese TL, Isaacs WB, Bova GS, De Marzo AM, Nelson WG. DNA hypomethylation arises later in prostate cancer progression than CpG island hypermethylation and contributes to metastatic tumor heterogeneity. Cancer Res. 2008 Nov 1;68(21):8954-67. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-6088. PubMed PMID: 18974140; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2577392.
Haffner MC, Jurgeit A, Berlato C, Geley S, Parajuli N, Yoshimura A, Doppler W. Interaction and functional interference of glucocorticoid receptor and SOCS1. J Biol Chem. 2008 Aug 8;283(32):22089-96. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M801041200. Epub 2008 Jun 4. PubMed PMID: 18524780.
Jurgeit A, Berlato C, Obrist P, Ploner C, Massoner P, Schmölzer J, Haffner MC, Klocker H, Huber LA, Geley S, Doppler W. Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-5 enters vesicular structures but not the nucleus. Traffic. 2007 Dec;8(12):1815-28. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2007.00655.x. Epub 2007 Oct 17. PubMed PMID: 17892529.
Haffner MC, Petridou B, Peyrat JP, Révillion F, Müller-Holzner E, Daxenbichler G, Marth C, Doppler W. Favorable prognostic value of SOCS2 and IGF-I in breast cancer. BMC Cancer. 2007 Jul 25;7:136. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-7-136. PubMed PMID: 17651480; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1948006.
Laimer K, Spizzo G, Obrist P, Gastl G, Brunhuber T, Schäfer G, Norer B, Rasse M, Haffner MC, Doppler W. STAT1 activation in squamous cell cancer of the oral cavity: a potential predictive marker of response to adjuvant chemotherapy. Cancer. 2007 Jul 15;110(2):326-33. doi: 10.1002/cncr.22813. PubMed PMID: 17559122.
Zeöld A, Doleschall M, Haffner MC, Capelo LP, Menyhért J, Liposits Z, da Silva WS, Bianco AC, Kacskovics I, Fekete C, Gereben B. Characterization of the nuclear factor-kappa B responsiveness of the human dio2 gene. Endocrinology. 2006 Sep;147(9):4419-29. doi: 10.1210/en.2005-1608. Epub 2006 May 25. PubMed PMID: 16728495.
Yegnasubramanian S, Lin X, Haffner MC, DeMarzo AM, Nelson WG. Combination of methylated-DNA precipitation and methylation-sensitive restriction enzymes (COMPARE-MS) for the rapid, sensitive and quantitative detection of DNA methylation. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Feb 9;34(3):e19. doi: 10.1093/nar/gnj022. PubMed PMID: 16473842; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1363782.
Haffner MC, Berlato C, Doppler W. Exploiting our knowledge of NF-kappaB signaling for the treatment of mammary cancer. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia. 2006 Jan;11(1):63-73. doi: 10.1007/s10911-006-9013-5. Review. PubMed PMID: 16900390.
Haffner MC, Landis PK, Saigal CS, Carter HB, Freedland SJ. Health-related quality-of-life outcomes after anatomic retropubic radical prostatectomy in the phosphodiesterase type 5 ERA: impact of neurovascular bundle preservation. Urology. 2005 Aug;66(2):371-6. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2005.03.048. PubMed PMID: 16040103.
Freedland SJ, Haffner MC, Landis PK, Saigal CS, Carter HB. Obesity does not adversely affect health-related quality-of-life outcomes after anatomic retropubic radical prostatectomy. Urology. 2005 Jun;65(6):1131-6. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2004.12.064. PubMed PMID: 15913722.
Haffner MC, Kufner MP. Insulin analogues. N Engl J Med. 2005 Apr 28;352(17):1822-4; author reply 1822-4. PubMed PMID: 15864825.