[HTML][HTML] Inhibiting DNA methylation causes an interferon response in cancer via dsRNA including endogenous retroviruses

…, A Desrichard, H Li, C Henke, B Akman, A Hein… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
We show that DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMTis) upregulate immune signaling in
cancer through the viral defense pathway. In ovarian cancer (OC), DNMTis trigger cytosolic …

Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

…, SN Hart, JM Hartikainen, M Hartman, A Hein… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Breast cancer risk is influenced by rare coding variants in susceptibility genes, such as
BRCA1, and many common, mostly non-coding variants. However, much of the genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer and breast cancer subtypes

…, EF Harkness, SN Hart, W He, A Hein… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Stratification of women according to their risk of breast cancer based on polygenic risk scores
(PRSs) could improve screening and prevention strategies. Our aim was to develop PRSs, …

[HTML][HTML] Ki67, chemotherapy response, and prognosis in breast cancer patients receiving neoadjuvant treatment

…, K Heusinger, L Haeberle, M Niklos, A Hein… - BMC cancer, 2011 - Springer
Background The pathological complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy is
a surrogate marker for a favorable prognosis in breast cancer patients. Factors capable of …

GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three new susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer

…, J Gronwald, Q Guo, MK Halle, P Harter, A Hein… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified four susceptibility loci for
epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), with another two suggestive loci reaching near genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating micro-RNAs as potential blood-based markers for early stage breast cancer detection

…, CR Loehberg, MP Lux, SM Jud, A Hartmann, A Hein… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Introduction MicroRNAs (miRNAs, miRs) are a class of small, non-coding RNA molecules
with relevance as regulators of gene expression thereby affecting crucial processes in cancer …

Dose-response association of CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and survival time in high-grade serous ovarian cancer

…, A Gentry-Maharaj, A Tołoczko, A Hein… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Cytotoxic CD8 + tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) participate in immune control
of epithelial ovarian cancer; however, little is known about prognostic patterns of CD8 + …

Transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily C, member 5 (TRPC5) is a cold-transducer in the peripheral nervous system

K Zimmermann, JK Lennerz, A Hein… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Detection and adaptation to cold temperature is crucial to survival. Cold sensing in the
innocuous range of cold (>10–15 C) in the mammalian peripheral nervous system is thought to …

A transcriptome-wide association study of 229,000 women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer

…, P Hall, E Hallberg, U Hamann, P Harrington, A Hein… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The breast cancer risk variants identified in genome-wide association studies explain only a
small fraction of the familial relative risk, and the genes responsible for these associations …

Genome-wide association study identifies 25 known breast cancer susceptibility loci as risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer

…, G Fountzilas, MW Beckmann, A Hein… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Triple-negative (TN) breast cancer is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer associated with
a unique set of epidemiologic and genetic risk factors. We conducted a two-stage genome-…