Publications

  1. Farris J, Khanna C, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Bothun E, Kaplan T, Hoffman F, Polonis K, Oliver G, Reis LM, Semina EV, Rust L, Hoppman NL, Vasmatzis G, Marcou CA, Schimmenti LA, Klee EW. Complex balanced intrachromosomal rearrangement involving PITX2 identified as a cause of Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2024 May; 194 (5):e63542 Epub 2024 Jan 17
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  2. Florio A, Johnson S, Salvatori R, Vasmatzis G. Monolayer culture alters EGFR inhibitor response through abrogation of microRNA-mediated feedback regulation. Sci Rep. 2024 Mar 27; 14 (1):7303
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  3. Pezeshki A, Cheville JC, Florio AB, Leibovich BC, Vasmatzis G. Evaluation of tumor response to immune checkpoint inhibitors by a 3D immunotumoroid model. Front Immunol. 2024; 15:1356144 Epub 2024 Mar 28
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  4. Gagnon MF, Penheiter AR, Harris F, Sadeghian D, Johnson SH, Karagouga G, McCune A, Zepeda-Mendoza C, Greipp PT, Xu X, Ketterling RP, McPhail ED, King RL, Peterson JF, Vasmatzis G, Baughn LB. Unraveling the genomic underpinnings of unbalanced MYC break-apart FISH results using whole genome sequencing analysis. Blood Cancer J 2023 Dec 19; 13 (1):190
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  5. Lo YC, Rivera-Concepcion J, Vasmatzis G, Aubry MC, Leventakos K. Subtype of SCLC Is an Intrinsic and Persistent Feature Through Systemic Treatment. JTO Clin Res Rep. 2023 Sep; 4 (9):100561 Epub 2023 Aug 16
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  6. Desai AP, Kosari F, Disselhorst M, Yin J, Agahi A, Peikert T, Udell J, Johnson SH, Smadbeck J, Murphy S, Karagouga G, McCune A, Schaefer-Klein J, Borad MJ, Cheville J, Vasmatzis G, Baas P, Mansfield A. Dynamics and survival associations of T cell receptor clusters in patients with pleural mesothelioma treated with immunotherapy. J Immunother Cancer. 2023 Jun; 11 (6)
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  7. El Khoury LY, Lin WH, Smadbeck JB, Barrett MT, Sadeghian D, McCune AF, Karagouga G, Cheville JC, Harris FR, Kinsella LM, Feathers RW, Schafer Klein JL, Walther-Antonio MR, Johnson SH, Penheiter AR, Cucinella G, Schivardi G, Bhagwate A, Borad MJ, Mansfield AS, Murphy SJ, Mariani A, Vasmatzis G, Anastasiadis PZ, Weroha SJ, Larish AM. Epigenomics may begin to explain in vitro differential response to hypomethylating agents in MMR-D hypermethylated endometrial cancer. Epigenomics. 2023 Mar; 15 (5):283-292 Epub 2023 May 22
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  8. Atkins TK, Solanki A, Vasmatzis G, Cornette J, Riedel M. Evaluating NetMHCpan performance on non-European HLA alleles not present in training data. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1288105 Epub 2024 Jan 16
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  9. Dalland JC, Blackburn PR, Reichard KK, Johnson SH, Smadbeck JB, Vasmatzis G, Hoppman NL, Xu X, Greipp PT, Baughn LB, Peterson JF. A Novel USP25::PDGFRA Gene Fusion in a 78 Year Old Patient with a Myeloid Neoplasm. Lab Med. 2022 Sep 1; 53 (5):e134-e138
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  10. Uson Junior PLS, DeLeon TT, Bogenberger JM, Pai RK, Kosiorek HE, Yin J, Ahn DH, Sonbol MB, Bekaii-Saab T, Mansfield AS, Buetow K, Gores GJ, Smoot R, Vasmatzis G, Kipp BR, Mahipal A, Baker AT, Babiker H, Barro O, Dumbauld C, Zhou Y, Aslam FN, Barrett M, Jacobs B, Meurice N, Arora M, Petit J, Elliott N, Nagalo B, Salomao MA, Borad MJ. FGFR2-IIIb Expression by Immunohistochemistry Has High Specificity in Cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 Genomic Alterations. Dig Dis Sci. 2022 Aug; 67(8):3797-3805. Epub 2021 Nov 13.
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  11. Gagnon MF, Smadbeck JB, Vasmatzis G, Olteanu H, Wood AJ, Lewis DJ, Sharma N, Meyer RG, Greipp PT, Xu X, Hoppman NL, Baughn LB, Ketterling RP, Chiu A, Peterson JF. Identification of EWSR1 rearrangements in patients with immature hematopoietic neoplasms: A case series and review of literature. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2022 Jun; 58:151942 Epub 2022 Mar 23
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  12. Kosari F, Disselhorst M, Yin J, Peikert T, Udell J, Johnson S, Smadbeck J, Murphy S, McCune A, Karagouga G, Desai A, Schaefer-Klein J, Borad MJ, Cheville J, Vasmatzis G, Baas P, Mansfield AS. Tumor Junction Burden and Antigen Presentation as Predictors of Survival in Mesothelioma Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. J Thorac Oncol. 2022 Mar; 17 (3):446-454 Epub 2021 Nov 17
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  13. Wen T, Barham W, Li Y, Zhang H, Gicobi JK, Hirdler JB, Liu X, Ham H, Peterson Martinez KE, Lucien F, Lavoie RR, Li H, Correia C, Monie DD, An Z, Harrington SM, Wu X, Guo R, Dronca RS, Mansfield AS, Yan Y, Markovic SN, Park SS, Sun J, Qin H, Liu MC, Vasmatzis G, Billadeau DD, Dong H. NKG7 Is a T-cell-Intrinsic Therapeutic Target for Improving Antitumor Cytotoxicity and Cancer Immunotherapy. Cancer Immunol Res. 2022 Feb; 10 (2):162-181 Epub 2021 Dec 15
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  14. Kanakkanthara A, Hou X, Ekstrom TL, Zanfagnin V, Huehls AM, Kelly RL, Ding H, Larson MC, Vasmatzis G, Oberg AL, Kaufmann SH, Mansfield AS, Weroha SJ, Karnitz LM. Repurposing Ceritinib Induces DNA Damage and Enhances PARP Inhibitor Responses in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma. Cancer Res. 2022 Jan 15; 82 (2):307-319 Epub 2021 Nov 22
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  15. Koleilat A, McGarrah PW, Olteanu H, Van Dyke DL, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Hoppman NL, Xu X, Ketterling RP, Greipp PT, Baughn LB, Patnaik MS, Peterson JF. Utilizing next-generation sequencing to characterize a case of acute myeloid leukemia with t(4;12)(q12;p13) in the absence of ETV6/CHIC2 and ETV6/PDGFRA gene fusions. Cancer Genet. 2022 Jan; 260-261:1-5 Epub 2021 Nov 06
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  16. Solanki A, Riedel M, Cornette J, Udell J, Vasmatzis G. Hydrophobicity identifies false positives and false negatives in peptide-MHC binding. Front Oncol. 2022; 12:1034810 Epub 2022 Nov 07
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  17. Guenzel AJ, Smadbeck JB, Golden CL, Williamson CM, Benevides Demasi JC, Vasmatzis G, Pearce KE, Olteanu H, Xu X, Hoppman NL, Greipp PT, Baughn LB, Ketterling RP, Peterson JF. Clinical utility of next generation sequencing to detect IGH/IL3 rearrangements [t(5;14)(q31.1;q32.1)] in B-lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2021 Aug; 53:151761 Epub 2021 May 10
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  18. Dinoi G, Mariani A, Martinelli E, Ciucci A, Zannoni GF, Weaver AL, Keeney GL, Vasmatzis G, Anastasiadis PZ, Fanfani F, Scambia G, Gallo D. In search for biomarkers and potential drug targets for uterine serous endometrial cancer. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 2021 Jun; 147 (6):1647-1658 Epub 2021 Mar 23
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  19. Freitag CE, Sukov WR, Bryce AH, Berg JV, Vanderbilt CM, Shen W, Smadbeck JB, Greipp PT, Ketterling RP, Jenkins RB, Herrera-Hernandez L, Costello BA, Thompson RH, Boorjian SA, Leibovich BC, Jimenez RE, Murphy SJ, Vasmatzis G, Cheville JC, Gupta S. Assessment of isochromosome 12p and 12p abnormalities in germ cell tumors using fluorescence in situ hybridization, single-nucleotide polymorphism arrays, and next-generation sequencing/mate-pair sequencing. Hum Pathol. 2021 Jun; 112:20-34 Epub 2021 Mar 31
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  20. Berg HE, Blackburn PR, Smadbeck JB, Swanson KE, Rice CS, Webley MR, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Xu X, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL, Ketterling RP, Baughn LB, Boston CH, Sutton LM, Peterson JF. Detection of a Cryptic EP300/ZNF384 Gene Fusion by Chromosomal Microarray and Next-Generation Sequencing Studies in a Pediatric Patient with B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Lab Med. 2021 May 4; 52 (3):297-302
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  21. Ganguli A, Mostafa A, Saavedra C, Kim Y, Le P, Faramarzi V, Feathers RW, Berger J, Ramos-Cruz KP, Adeniba O, Diaz GJP, Drnevich J, Wright CL, Hernandez AG, Lin W, Smith AM, Kosari F, Vasmatzis G, Anastasiadis PZ, Bashir R. Three-dimensional microscale hanging drop arrays with geometric control for drug screening and live tissue imaging. Sci Adv. 2021 Apr; 7(17). Epub 2021 Apr 23.
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  22. Murphy SJ, Levy MJ, Smadbeck JB, Karagouga G, McCune AF, Harris FR, Udell JB, Johnson SH, Kerr SE, Cheville JC, Kipp BR, Vasmatzis G, Gleeson FC. Theragnostic chromosomal rearrangements in treatment-naive pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas obtained via endoscopic ultrasound. J Cell Mol Med. 2021 Apr; 25 (8):4110-4123 Epub 2021 Mar 11
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  23. Murphy S, Smadbeck J, Eckloff B, Lee Y, Johnson S, Karagouga G, Serla V, Sharma A, Sikkink R, Voss J, Harris F, Kline JS, Kosari F, Feldman A, Wieben E, Aubry MC, Kipp B, Jen J, Cheville J, Vasmatzis G. Chromosomal Junction Detection from Whole-Genome Sequencing on Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Tumors. J Mol Diagn. 2021 Apr; 23 (4):375-388 Epub 2020 Dec 31
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  24. Pitel BA, Sharma N, Zepeda-Mendoza C, Smadbeck JB, Pearce KE, Cook JM, Vasmatzis G, Sachs Z, Kanagal-Shamanna R, Viswanatha D, Xiao S, Jenkins RB, Xu X, Hoppman NL, Ketterling RP, Peterson JF, Greipp PT, Baughn LB. Myeloid malignancies with 5q and 7q deletions are associated with extreme genomic complexity, biallelic TP53 variants, and very poor prognosis. Blood Cancer J. 2021 Feb 8; 11(2):18.
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  25. Pitel BA, Sharma N, Zepeda-Mendoza C, Smadbeck JB, Pearce KE, Cook JM, Vasmatzis G, Sachs Z, Kanagal-Shamanna R, Viswanatha D, Xiao S, Jenkins RB, Xu X, Hoppman NL, Ketterling RP, Peterson JF, Greipp PT, Baughn LB. Myeloid malignancies with 5q and 7q deletions are associated with extreme genomic complexity, biallelic TP53 variants, and very poor prognosis. Blood Cancer J 2021 Feb 8; 11 (2):18 Epub 2021 Feb 08
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  26. Zepeda-Mendoza CJ, Essendrup A, Smoley SA, Johnson SH, Hoppman NL, Vasmatzis G, Jackson DL, Kearney HM, Baughn LB. Prenatal characterization of a novel inverted SMAD2 duplication by mate pair sequencing in a fetus with dextrocardia. Clin Case Rep. 2021 Feb; 9 (2):769-774 Epub 2020 Dec 10
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  27. Berg HE, Blackburn PR, Baughn LB, Ketterling RP, Xu X, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL, Smadbeck JB, Vasmatzis G, Shi M, Reichard KK, Viswanatha DS, Jevremovic D, Maher GM, Peterson JF. Identification of a novel KMT2A/GIMAP8 gene fusion in a pediatric patient with acute undifferentiated leukemia. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2021 Feb; 60 (2):108-111 Epub 2020 Oct 21
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  28. Vaubel R, Zschernack V, Tran QT, Jenkins S, Caron A, Milosevic D, Smadbeck J, Vasmatzis G, Kandels D, Gnekow A, Kramm C, Jenkins R, Kipp BR, Rodriguez FJ, Orr BA, Pietsch T, Giannini C. Biology and grading of pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma-what have we learned about it? Brain Pathol. 2021 Jan; 31 (1):20-32 Epub 2020 Aug 04
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  29. Grassi T, Harris FR, Smadbeck JB, Murphy SJ, Block MS, Multinu F, Schaefer Klein JL, Zhang P, Karagouga G, Liu MC, Larish A, Lemens MA, Sommerfield MKS, Cappuccio S, Cheville JC, Vasmatzis G, Mariani A. Personalized tumor-specific DNA junctions to detect circulating tumor in patients with endometrial cancer. PLoS One. 2021; 16 (6):e0252390 Epub 2021 June 10
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  30. Bornschlegl S, Gustafson MP, Delivanis DA, Ryder M, Liu MC, Vasmatzis G, Hallemeier CL, Park SS, Roberts LR, Parney IF, Jelinek DF, Dietz AB. Categorisation of patients based on immune profiles: a new approach to identifying candidates for response to checkpoint inhibitors. Clin Transl Immunology. 2021; 10 (4):e1267 Epub 2021 Apr 29
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  31. Murphy SJ, Harris FR, Smadbeck JB, Serla V, Karagouga G, Johnson SH, Kosari F, Pierson KE, Bungum AO, Edell ES, Mansfield AS, Wigle DA, Kipp BR, Vasmatzis G, Aubry MC. Optimizing clinical cytology touch preparations for next generation sequencing. Genomics. 2020 Nov; 112(6):5313-5323. Epub 2020 Nov 02.
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  32. Blackburn PR, Smadbeck JB, Znoyko I, Webley MR, Pitel BA, Vasmatzis G, Xu X, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL, Ketterling RP, Baughn LB, Lindsey KG, Schandl CA, Wolff DJ, Peterson JF. Cryptic and atypical KMT2A-USP2 and KMT2A-USP8 rearrangements identified by mate pair sequencing in infant and childhood leukemia. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2020 Jul; 59 (7):422-427 Epub 2020 Mar 26
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  33. Chalmers SJ, Murphy SJ, Thompson LL, Hoppman NL, Smadbeck JB, Balcom JR, Harris FR, Frantz RP, Vasmatzis G, E Wylam M. Mate-pair sequencing identifies a cryptic BMPR2 mutation in hereditary pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulm Circ. 2020 Jul-Sep; 10 (3):2045894020933081 Epub 2021 July 12
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  34. Polonis K, Schultz MJ, Olteanu H, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Xu X, Greipp PT, Ketterling RP, Hoppman NL, Baughn LB, Peterson JF. Detection of cryptic CCND1 rearrangements in mantle cell lymphoma by next generation sequencing. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2020 Jun; 46:151533 Epub 2020 May 06
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  35. Lopes JL, Webley M, Pitel BA, Pearce KE, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Sukov WR, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL, Ketterling RP, Baughn LB, Finn L, Peterson JF. Characterizing false-positive fluorescence in situ hybridization results by mate-pair sequencing in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia and progression to myeloid blast crisis. Cancer Genet. 2020 May; 243:48-51 Epub 2020 Mar 17
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  36. Schultz MJ, Blackburn PR, Cogbill CH, Pitel BA, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Rech KL, Sukov WR, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL, Baughn LB, Ketterling RP, Peterson JF. Characterization of a cryptic PML-RARA fusion by mate-pair sequencing in a case of acute promyelocytic leukemia with a normal karyotype and negative RARA FISH studies. Leuk Lymphoma 2020 Apr; 61 (4):975-978 Epub 2019 Dec 06
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  37. Mansfield AS, Peikert T, Vasmatzis G. Chromosomal rearrangements and their neoantigenic potential in mesothelioma. Transl Lung Cancer Res. 2020 Feb; 9 (Suppl 1):S92-S99
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  38. Blackburn PR, Huang L, Dalovisio A, Pitel BA, Chen D, Oliveira JL, Wood AJ, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Haferlach C, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL, Ketterling RP, Baughn LB, Peterson JF. Secondary acquisition of BCR-ABL1 fusion in de novo GATA2-MECOM positive acute myeloid leukemia with subsequent emergence of a rare KMT2A-ASXL2 fusion. Cancer Genet 2020 Feb; 241:67-71 Epub 2019 Dec 26
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  39. Vasmatzis G, Liu MC, Reganti S, Feathers RW, Smadbeck J, Johnson SH, Schaefer Klein JL, Harris FR, Yang L, Kosari F, Murphy SJ, Borad MJ, Thompson EA, Cheville JC, Anastasiadis PZ. Integration of Comprehensive Genomic Analysis and Functional Screening of Affected Molecular Pathways to Inform Cancer Therapy. Mayo Clin Proc. 2020 Feb; 95 (2):306-318 Epub 2019 Nov 02
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  40. Parney IF, Gustafson MP, Solseth M, Bulur P, Peterson TE, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Murphy SJ, Vasmatzis G, Dietz AB. Novel strategy for manufacturing autologous dendritic cell/allogeneic tumor lysate vaccines for glioblastoma. Neurooncol Adv. 2020 Jan-Dec; 2 (1):vdaa105 Epub 2020 Aug 26
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  41. Perez-Rodriguez D, Kalyva M, Leija-Salazar M, Lashley T, Tarabichi M, Chelban V, Gentleman S, Schottlaender L, Franklin H, Vasmatzis G, Houlden H, Schapira AHV, Warner TT, Holton JL, Jaunmuktane Z, Proukakis C. Investigation of somatic CNVs in brains of synucleinopathy cases using targeted SNCA analysis and single cell sequencing. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2019 Dec 23; 7 (1):219
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  42. Smadbeck J, Peterson JF, Pearce KE, Pitel BA, Figueroa AL, Timm M, Jevremovic D, Shi M, Stewart AK, Braggio E, Riggs DL, Bergsagel PL, Vasmatzis G, Kearney HM, Hoppman NL, Ketterling RP, Kumar S, Rajkumar SV, Greipp PT, Baughn LB. Mate pair sequencing outperforms fluorescence in situ hybridization in the genomic characterization of multiple myeloma. Blood Cancer J. 2019 Dec 16; 9 (12):103
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  43. Rowsey RA, Smoley SA, Williamson CM, Vasmatzis G, Smadbeck JB, Ning Y, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL, Baughn LB, Ketterling RP, Peterson JF. Characterization of TCF3 rearrangements in pediatric B-lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma by mate-pair sequencing (MPseq) identifies complex genomic rearrangements and a novel TCF3/TEF gene fusion. Blood Cancer J. 2019 Oct 1; 9 (10):81 Epub 2019 Oct 01
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  44. Murphy SJ, Harris FR, Kosari F, Barreto Siqueira Parrilha Terra S, Nasir A, Johnson SH, Serla V, Smadbeck JB, Halling GC, Karagouga G, Sukov WR, Leventakos K, Yang P, Peikert T, Mansfield AS, Wigle DA, Yi ES, Kipp BR, Vasmatzis G, Aubry MC. Using Genomics to Differentiate Multiple Primaries From Metastatic Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2019 Sep; 14 (9):1567-1582 Epub 2019 May 16
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  45. Peterson JF, He RR, Nayer H, Cuevo RS, Smadbeck JB, Vasmatzis G, Greipp PT, Ketterling RP, Hoppman NL, Baughn LB. Characterization of a rarely reported STAT5B/RARA gene fusion in a young adult with newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia with resistance to ATRA therapy. Cancer Genet. 2019 Sep; 237:51-54 Epub 2019 June 12
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  46. Peterson JF, Meyer RG, Smoley SA, Webley M, Smadbeck JB, Vasmatzis G, Pearce K, Greipp PT, Ketterling RP, Craig FE, Stewart AK, Baughn LB. Whole Genome Mate-pair Sequencing of Plasma Cell Neoplasm as a Novel Diagnostic Strategy: A Case of Unrecognized t(2;11) Structural Variation. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2019 Sep; 19 (9):598-602 Epub 2019 June 18
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  47. Peterson JF, Sukov WR, Pitel BA, Smoley SA, Pearce KE, Meyer RG, Williamson CM, Smadbeck JB, Vasmatzis G, Hoppman NL, Greipp PT, Baughn LB, Ketterling RP. Acute leukemias harboring KMT2A/MLLT10 fusion: a 10-year experience from a single genomics laboratory. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2019 Aug; 58 (8):567-577 Epub 2019 Mar 19
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  48. Muppa P, Parrilha Terra SBS, Sharma A, Mansfield AS, Aubry MC, Bhinge K, Asiedu MK, de Andrade M, Janaki N, Murphy SJ, Nasir A, Van Keulen V, Vasmatzis G, Wigle DA, Yang P, Yi ES, Peikert T, Kosari F. Immune Cell Infiltration May Be a Key Determinant of Long-Term Survival in Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2019 Jul; 14 (7):1286-1295 Epub 2019 May 09
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  49. Peterson JF, Pitel BA, Smoley SA, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Kearney HM, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL, Baughn LB, Ketterling RP. Use of mate-pair sequencing to characterize a complex cryptic BCR/ABL1 rearrangement observed in a newly diagnosed case of chronic myeloid leukemia. Hum Pathol. 2019 Jul; 89:109-114 Epub 2018 Sept 26
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  50. Peterson JF, Blackburn PR, Webley MR, Pearce KE, Williamson CM, Vasmatzis G, Smadbeck JB, Bieliauskas SL, Reichard KK, Ketterling RP, Baughn LB, Greipp PT. Identification of a Novel ZBTB20-JAK2 Fusion by Mate-Pair Sequencing in a Young Adult With B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma. Mayo Clin Proc 2019 Jul; 94 (7):1381-1384
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  51. Peterson JF, Pitel BA, Smoley SA, Vasmatzis G, Smadbeck JB, Greipp PT, Ketterling RP, Macon WR, Baughn LB. Elucidating a false-negative MYC break-apart fluorescence in situ hybridization probe study by next-generation sequencing in a patient with high-grade B-cell lymphoma with IGH/MYC and IGH/BCL2 rearrangements. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2019 Jun; 5 (3) Epub 2019 June 03
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  52. Gupta S, Sosa CP, Kosari F, Folpe A, Bhinge KN, Yang L, Agahi A, Johnson SH, Frank I, Boorjian SA, Hansel DE, Al-Ahmadie HA, Reuter VE, Vasmatzis G, Jimenez RE, Herrera-Hernandez L, Cheville JC. A comparison of adult rhabdomyosarcoma and high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma of the urinary bladder reveals novel PPP1R12A fusions in rhabdomyosarcoma. Hum Pathol. 2019 Jun; 88:48-59 Epub 2019 Apr 01
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  53. King RL, McPhail ED, Meyer RG, Vasmatzis G, Pearce K, Smadbeck JB, Ketterling RP, Smoley SA, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL, Peterson JF, Baughn LB. False-negative rates for MYC fluorescence in situ hybridization probes in B-cell neoplasms. Haematologica 2019 Jun; 104 (6):e248-e251 Epub 2018 Dec 06
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  54. Peterson JF, Baughn LB, Ketterling RP, Pitel BA, Smoley SA, Vasmatzis G, Smadbeck JB, Greipp PT, Mangaonkar AA, Thompson CA, Parikh SA, Chen D, Viswanatha DS. Characterization of a cryptic IGH/CCND1 rearrangement in a case of mantle cell lymphoma with negative CCND1 FISH studies. Blood Adv. 2019 Apr 23; 3 (8):1298-1302
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  55. Peterson JF, Pitel BA, Smoley SA, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Koon SJ, Webley MR, McGrath M, Bayerl MG, Baughn LB, Rowsey RA, Ketterling RP, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL. Detection of a cryptic NUP214/ABL1 gene fusion by mate-pair sequencing (MPseq) in a newly diagnosed case of pediatric T-lymphoblastic leukemia. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2019 Apr; 5 (2) Epub 2019 Apr 01
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  56. Bryce AH, Egan JB, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Murphy SJ, Harris FR, Halling GC, Terra SBSP, Cheville J, Pagliaro L, Leibovich B, Costello BA, Vasmatzis G. Shared and unique genomic structural variants of different histological components within testicular germ cell tumours identified with mate pair sequencing. Sci Rep. 2019 Mar 5; 9 (1):3586 Epub 2019 Mar 05
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  57. Rusheen AE, Smadbeck JB, Schimmenti LA, Klee EW, Link MJ, Vasmatzis G, Carlson ML. Proposal for Modification of Cahan's Criteria Utilizing Molecular Genetic Analyses for Cases without Baseline Histopathology: A Unique Method Applicable to Primary Radiosurgery. J Neurol Surg B Skull Base. 2019 Feb; 80 (1):10-17 Epub 2018 May 31
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  58. Mansfield AS, Peikert T, Smadbeck JB, Udell JBM, Garcia-Rivera E, Elsbernd L, Erskine CL, Van Keulen VP, Kosari F, Murphy SJ, Ren H, Serla VV, Schaefer Klein JL, Karagouga G, Harris FR, Sosa C, Johnson SH, Nevala W, Markovic SN, Bungum AO, Edell ES, Dong H, Cheville JC, Aubry MC, Jen J, Vasmatzis G. Neoantigenic Potential of Complex Chromosomal Rearrangements in Mesothelioma. J Thorac Oncol. 2019 Feb; 14 (2):276-287 Epub 2018 Oct 10
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  59. Harris FR, Zhang P, Yang L, Hou X, Leventakos K, Weroha SJ, Vasmatzis G, Kovtun IV. Targeting HER2 in patient-derived xenograft ovarian cancer models sensitizes tumors to chemotherapy. Mol Oncol. 2019 Feb; 13 (2):132-152 Epub 2018 Dec 21
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  60. Vasmatzis G, Kosari F, Murphy SJ, Terra S, Kovtun IV, Harris FR, Zarei S, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Gaitatzes AG, Therneau TM, Rangel LJ, Knudson RA, Greipp P, Sukov WR, Knutson DL, Kloft-Nelson SM, Karnes RJ, Cheville JC. Large Chromosomal Rearrangements Yield Biomarkers to Distinguish Low-Risk From Intermediate- and High-Risk Prostate Cancer. Mayo Clin Proc. 2019 Jan; 94(1):27-36.
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  61. Peterson JF, Pitel BA, Smoley SA, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Pearce KE, He R, Kelemen K, Al-Mondhiry HAB, Lamparella NE, Hoppman NL, Kearney HM, Baughn LB, Ketterling RP, Greipp PT. Constitutional chromosome rearrangements that mimic the 2017 world health organization "acute myeloid leukemia with recurrent genetic abnormalities": A study of three cases and review of the literature. Cancer Genet. 2019 Jan; 230:37-46 Epub 2018 Nov 20
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  62. Aypar U, Smoley SA, Pitel BA, Pearce KE, Zenka RM, Vasmatzis G, Johnson SH, Smadbeck JB, Peterson JF, Geiersbach KB, Van Dyke DL, Thorland EC, Jenkins RB, Ketterling RP, Greipp PT, Kearney HM, Hoppman NL, Baughn LB. Mate pair sequencing improves detection of genomic abnormalities in acute myeloid leukemia. Eur J Haematol. 2019 Jan; 102 (1):87-96 Epub 2018 Nov 22
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  63. Hussain S, Bedekovics T, Liu Q, Hu W, Jeon H, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, May DG, Roux KJ, Galardy PJ. UCH-L1 bypasses mTOR to promote protein biosynthesis and is required for MYC-driven lymphomagenesis in mice. Blood. 2018 Dec 13; 132 (24):2564-2574 Epub 2018 Sept 26
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  64. Liu Y, Le P, Lim SJ, Ma L, Sarkar S, Han Z, Murphy SJ, Kosari F, Vasmatzis G, Cheville JC, Smith AM. Enhanced mRNA FISH with compact quantum dots. Nat Commun. 2018 Oct 26; 9 (1):4461
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  65. Carlson ML, Smadbeck JB, Link MJ, Klee EW, Vasmatzis G, Schimmenti LA. Next Generation Sequencing of Sporadic Vestibular Schwannoma: Necessity of Biallelic NF2 Inactivation and Implications of Accessory Non-NF2 Variants. Otol Neurotol. 2018 Oct; 39 (9):e860-e871
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  66. Sugihara T, Werneburg NW, Hernandez MC, Yang L, Kabashima A, Hirsova P, Yohanathan L, Sosa C, Truty MJ, Vasmatzis G, Gores GJ, Smoot RL. YAP Tyrosine Phosphorylation and Nuclear Localization in Cholangiocarcinoma Cells Are Regulated by LCK and Independent of LATS Activity. Mol Cancer Res. 2018 Oct; 16 (10):1556-1567 Epub 2018 June 14
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  67. Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Smoley SA, Gaitatzes A, Drucker TM, Zenka RM, Kosari F, Murphy SJ, Hoppman N, Aypar U, Sukov WR, Jenkins RB, Kearney HM, Feldman AL, Vasmatzis G. Copy number variant analysis using genome-wide mate-pair sequencing. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2018 Sep; 57 (9):459-470 Epub 2018 July 30
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  68. Vasmatzis G, Wang X, Smadbeck JB, Murphy SJ, Geiersbach KB, Johnson SH, Gaitatzes AG, Asmann YW, Kosari F, Borad MJ, Serie DJ, McLaughlin SA, Kachergus JM, Necela BM, Thompson EA. Chromoanasynthesis is a common mechanism that leads to ERBB2 amplifications in a cohort of early stage HER2+ breast cancer samples. BMC Cancer. 2018 Jul 13; 18(1):738.
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  159. Almog O, Benhar I, Vasmatzis G, Tordova M, Lee B, Pastan I, Gilliland GL. Crystal structure of the disulfide-stabilized Fv fragment of anticancer antibody B1: conformational influence of an engineered disulfide bond. Proteins. 1998 May 1; 31(2):128-38.
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  169. Vasmatzis G, Cornette J, Sezerman U, DeLisi C. TcR recognition of the MHC-peptide dimer: Structural properties of a ternary complex. J Mol Biol. 1996; 261(1):72-89.
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