Publications

Selected publications

Systematic Functional Annotation of Somatic Mutations in Cancer
Ng PK, Li J, Jeong KJ, Shao S, Chen H, Tsang YH, Sengupta S, Wang Z, Bhavana VH, Tran R, Soewito S, Minussi DC, Moreno D, Kong K, Dogruluk T, Lu H, Gao J, Tokheim C, Zhou DC, Johnson AM, Zeng J, Ip CKM, Ju Z, Wester M, Yu S, Li Y, Vellano CP, Schultz N, Karchin R, Ding L, Lu Y, Cheung LWT, Chen K, Shaw KR, Meric-Bernstam F, Scott KL, Yi S, Sahni N, Liang H, Mills GB. Cancer Cell 33(3):450-462.e10, 2018. PMID: 29533785.

The Genomic Landscape and Pharmacogenomic Interactions of Clock Genes in Cancer Chronotherapy
Ye Y, Xiang Y, Ozguc FM, Kim Y, Liu CJ, Park PK, Hu Q, Diao L, Lou Y, Lin C, Guo AY, Zhou B, Wang L, Chen Z, Takahashi JS, Mills GB, Yoo SH, Han L. Cell Syst 6(3):314-328.e2, 2018. PMID: 29525205.

CTNNB1 (beta-catenin) mutation identifies low grade, early stage endometrial cancer patients at increased risk of recurrence
Kurnit KC, Kim GN, Fellman BM, Urbauer DL, Mills GB, Zhang W, Broaddus RR. Mod Pathol 30(7):1032-1041, 2017. PMID: 28281553.

A feasibility study of returning clinically actionable somatic genomic alterations identified in a research laboratory
Arango NP, Brusco L, Mills Shaw KR, Chen K, Eterovic AK, Holla V, Johnson A, Litzenburger B, Khotskaya YB, Sanchez N, Bailey A, Zheng X, Horombe C, Kopetz S, Farhangfar CJ, Routbort M, Broaddus R, Bernstam EV, Mendelsohn J, Mills GB, Meric-Bernstam F. Oncotarget 8(26):41806-41814, 2017. PMID: 28415679.

A murine preclinical syngeneic transplantation model for breast cancer precision medicine
Federico L, Chong Z, Zhang D, McGrail DJ, Zhao W, Jeong KJ, Vellano CP, Ju Z, Gagea M, Liu S, Mitra S, Dennison JB, Lorenzi PL, Cardnell R, Diao L, Wang J, Lu Y, Byers LA, Perou CM, Lin SY, Mills GB. Sci Adv 3(4):e1600957, 2017. PMID: 28439535.

YAP/TAZ-Mediated Upregulation of GAB2 Leads to Increased Sensitivity to Growth Factor-Induced Activation of the PI3K Pathway
Wang C, Gu C, Jeong KJ, Zhang D, Guo W, Lu Y, Ju Z, Panupinthu N, Yang JY, Gagea MM, Ng PK, Zhang F, Mills GB. Cancer Res 77(7):1637-1648, 2017. PMID: 28202507.

Phase I dose escalation study of the PI3kinase pathway inhibitor BKM120 and the oral poly (ADP ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor olaparib for the treatment of high-grade serous ovarian and breast cancer
Matulonis UA, Wulf GM, Barry WT, Birrer M, Westin SN, Farooq S, Bell-McGuinn KM, Obermayer E, Whalen C, Spagnoletti T, Luo W, Liu H, Hok RC, Aghajanian C, Solit DB, Mills GB, Taylor BS, Won H, Berger MF, Palakurthi S, Liu J, Cantley LC, Winer E. Ann Oncol 28(3):512-518, 2017. PMID: 27993796.

Integrative clustering reveals a novel split in the luminal A subtype of breast cancer with impact on outcome
Aure MR, Vitelli V, Jernström S, Kumar S, Krohn M, Due EU, Haukaas TH, Leivonen SK, Vollan HK, Lüders T, Rødland E, Vaske CJ, Zhao W, Møller EK, Nord S, Giskeødegård GF, Bathen TF, Caldas C, Tramm T, Alsner J, Overgaard J, Geisler J, Bukholm IR, Naume B, Schlichting E, Sauer T, Mills GB, Kåresen R, Mælandsmo GM, Lingjærde OC, Frigessi A, Kristensen VN, Børresen-Dale AL, Sahlberg KK, OSBREAC. Breast Cancer Res 19(1):44, 2017. PMID: 28356166.

Randomized, placebo-controlled window trial of EGFR, Src, or combined blockade in head and neck cancer
Bauman JE, Duvvuri U, Gooding WE, Rath TJ, Gross ND, Song J, Jimeno A, Yarbrough WG, Johnson FM, Wang L, Chiosea S, Sen M, Kass J, Johnson JT, Ferris RL, Kim S, Hirsch FR, Ellison K, Flaherty JT, Mills GB, Grandis JR. JCI Insight 2(6):e90449, 2017. PMID: 28352657.

Targeting KRas-dependent tumour growth, circulating tumour cells and metastasis in vivo by clinically significant miR-193a-3p
Seviour EG, Sehgal V, Mishra D, Rupaimoole R, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Lee JS, Sood AK, Kim MP, Mills GB, Ram PT. Oncogene 36(10):1339-1350, 2017. PMID: 27669434.

Multiplatform-based molecular subtypes of non-small-cell lung cancer
Chen F, Zhang Y, Parra E, Rodriguez J, Behrens C, Akbani R, Lu Y, Kurie JM, Gibbons DL, Mills GB, Wistuba II, Creighton CJ. Oncogene 36(10):1384-1393, 2017. PMID: 27775076.

Establishment of Patient-Derived Tumor Xenograft Models of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer for Preclinical Evaluation of Novel Therapeutics
Liu JF, Palakurthi S, Zeng Q, Zhou S, Ivanova E, Huang W, Zervantonakis IK, Selfors LM, Shen Y, Pritchard CC, Zheng M, Adleff V, Papp E, Piao H, Novak M, Fotheringham S, Wulf GM, English J, Kirschmeier PT, Velculescu VE, Paweletz C, Mills GB, Livingston DM, Brugge JS, Matulonis UA, Drapkin R. Clin Cancer Res 23(5):1263-1273, 2017. PMID: 27573169.

RNA-binding protein 2 regulates estrogen receptor 1 function in breast cancer
Kang MH, Jeong KJ, Kim WY, Lee HJ, Gong G, Suh N, Gyorffy B, Kim S, Jeong SY, Mills GB, Park YY. Musashi Oncogene 36(12):1745-1752, 2017. PMID: 27593929.

Characterization of Human Cancer Cell Lines by Reverse-phase Protein Arrays
Li J, Zhao W, Akbani R, Liu W, Ju Z, Ling S, Vellano CP, Roebuck P, Yu Q, Eterovic AK, Byers LA, Davies MA, Deng W, Gopal YN, Chen G, von Euw EM, Slamon D, Conklin D, Heymach JV, Gazdar AF, Minna JD, Myers JN, Lu Y, Mills GB, Liang H. Cancer Cell 31(2):225-239, 2017. PMID: 28196595.

Context Specificity in Causal Signaling Networks Revealed by Phosphoprotein Profiling
Hill SM, Nesser NK, Johnson-Camacho K, Jeffress M, Johnson A, Boniface C, Spencer SE, Lu Y, Heiser LM, Lawrence Y, Pande NT, Korkola JE, Gray JW, Mills GB, Mukherjee S, Spellman PT. Cell Syst 4(1):73-83.e10, 2017. PMID: 28017544.

Targeting of PYK2 Synergizes with EGFR Antagonists in Basal-like TNBC and Circumvents HER3-Associated Resistance via the NEDD4-NDRG1 Axis
Verma N, Müller AK, Kothari C, Panayotopoulou E, Kedan A, Selitrennik M, Mills GB, Nguyen LK, Shin S, Karn T, Holtrich U, Lev S. Cancer Res 77(1):86-99, 2017. PMID: 27793840.

Chk1 inhibition potentiates the therapeutic efficacy of PARP inhibitor BMN673 in gastric cancer
Yin Y, Shen Q, Zhang P, Tao R, Chang W, Li R, Xie G, Liu W, Zhang L, Kapoor P, Song S, Ajani J, Mills GB, Chen J, Tao K, Peng G. Am J Cancer Res 7(3):473-483, 2017. PMID: 28401005.

Improved prediction of PARP inhibitor response and identification of synergizing agents through use of a novel gene expression signature generation algorithm
McGrail DJ, Lin CC, Garnett J, Liu Q, Mo W, Dai H, Lu Y, Yu Q, Ju Z, Yin J, Vellano CP, Hennessy B, Mills GB, Lin SY. NPJ Syst Biol Appl 3:8, 2017. PMID: 28649435.

A patient-derived-xenograft platform to study BRCA-deficient ovarian cancers
George E, Kim H, Krepler C, Wenz B, Makvandi M, Tanyi JL, Brown E, Zhang R, Brafford P, Jean S, Mach RH, Lu Y, Mills GB, Herlyn M, Morgan M, Zhang X, Soslow R, Drapkin R, Johnson N, Zheng Y, Cotsarelis G, Nathanson KL, Simpkins F. JCI Insight 2(1):e89760, 2017. PMID: 28097235.

ERK and p38 MAPK Activities Determine Sensitivity to PI3K/mTOR Inhibition via Regulation of MYC and YAP
Muranen T, Selfors LM, Hwang J, Gallegos LL, Coloff JL, Thoreen CC, Kang SA, Sabatini DM, Mills GB, Brugge JS. Cancer Res 76(24):7168-7180, 2016. PMID: 27913436.

AZD5153: A Novel Bivalent BET Bromodomain Inhibitor Highly Active against Hematologic Malignancies
Rhyasen GW, Hattersley MM, Yao Y, Dulak A, Wang W, Petteruti P, Dale IL, Boiko S, Cheung T, Zhang J, Wen S, Castriotta L, Lawson D, Collins M, Bao L, Ahdesmaki MJ, Walker G, O'Connor G, Yeh TC, Rabow AA, Dry JR, Reimer C, Lyne P, Mills GB, Fawell SE, Waring MJ, Zinda M, Clark E, Chen H. Mol Cancer Ther 15(11):2563-2574, 2016. PMID: 27573426.

Loss of ARID1A Activates ANXA1, which Serves as a Predictive Biomarker for Trastuzumab Resistance
Berns K, Sonnenblick A, Gennissen A, Brohée S, Hijmans EM, Evers B, Fumagalli D, Desmedt C, Loibl S, Denkert C, Neven P, Guo W, Zhang F, Knijnenburg TA, Bosse T, van der Heijden MS, Hindriksen S, Nijkamp W, Wessels LF, Joensuu H, Mills GB, Beijersbergen RL, Sotiriou C, Bernards R. Clin Cancer Res 22(21):5238-5248, 2016. PMID: 27172896.

The ErbB2?Ex16 splice variant is a major oncogenic driver in breast cancer that promotes a pro-metastatic tumor microenvironment
Turpin J, Ling C, Crosby EJ, Hartman ZC, Simond AM, Chodosh LA, Rennhack JP, Andrechek ER, Ozcelik J, Hallett M, Mills GB, Cardiff RD, Gray JW, Griffith OL, Muller WJ. Oncogene 35(47):6053-6064, 2016. PMID: 27157621.

Transgenic Expression of the Mitochondrial Chaperone TNFR-associated Protein 1 (TRAP1) Accelerates Prostate Cancer Development
Lisanti S, Garlick DS, Bryant KG, Tavecchio M, Mills GB, Lu Y, Kossenkov AV, Showe LC, Languino LR, Altieri DC. J Biol Chem 291(48):25247-25254, 2016. PMID: 27754870.

Clinical outcomes based on multigene profiling in metastatic breast cancer patients
Basho RK, de Melo Gagliato D, Ueno NT, Wathoo C, Chen H, Shariati M, Wei C, Alvarez RH, Moulder SL, Sahin AA, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Chavez-MacGregor M, Litton JK, Valero V, Luthra R, Zeng J, Shaw KR, Mendelsohn J, Mills GB, Tripathy D, Meric-Bernstam F. Oncotarget 7(47):76362-76373, 2016. PMID: 27806348.

High Intratumoral Stromal Content Defines Reactive Breast Cancer as a Low-risk Breast Cancer Subtype
Dennison JB, Shahmoradgoli M, Liu W, Ju Z, Meric-Bernstam F, Perou CM, Sahin AA, Welm A, Oesterreich S, Sikora MJ, Brown RE, Mills GB. Clin Cancer Res 22(20):5068-5078, 2016. PMID: 27172895.

Phosphorylation-dependent cleavage regulates von Hippel Lindau proteostasis and function
German P, Bai S, Liu XD, Sun M, Zhou L, Kalra S, Zhang X, Minelli R, Scott KL, Mills GB, Jonasch E, Ding Z. Oncogene 35(38):4973-80, 2016. PMID: 26973240.

Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD) Score Predicts Response to Platinum-Containing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients with Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Telli ML, Timms KM, Reid J, Hennessy B, Mills GB, Jensen KC, Szallasi Z, Barry WT, Winer EP, Tung NM, Isakoff SJ, Ryan PD, Greene-Colozzi A, Gutin A, Sangale Z, Iliev D, Neff C, Abkevich V, Jones JT, Lanchbury JS, Hartman AR, Garber JE, Ford JM, Silver DP, Richardson AL. Clin Cancer Res 22(15):3764-73, 2016. PMID: 26957554.

Novel patient-derived xenograft and cell line models for therapeutic testing of pediatric liver cancer
Bissig-Choisat B, Kettlun-Leyton C, Legras XD, Zorman B, Barzi M, Chen LL, Amin MD, Huang YH, Pautler RG, Hampton OA, Prakash MM, Yang D, Borowiak M, Muzny D, Doddapaneni HV, Hu J, Shi Y, Gaber MW, Hicks MJ, Thompson PA, Lu Y, Mills GB, Finegold M, Goss JA, Parsons DW, Vasudevan SA, Sumazin P, López-Terrada D, Bissig KD. J Hepatol 65(2):325-33, 2016. PMID: 27117591.

Analysis of phosphatases in ER-negative breast cancers identifies DUSP4 as a critical regulator of growth and invasion
Mazumdar A, Poage GM, Shepherd J, Tsimelzon A, Hartman ZC, Den Hollander P, Hill J, Zhang Y, Chang J, Hilsenbeck SG, Fuqua S, Kent Osborne C, Mills GB, Brown PH. Breast Cancer Res Treat 158(3):441-54, 2016. PMID: 27393618.

BRAF Mutation Testing in Cell-Free DNA from the Plasma of Patients with Advanced Cancers Using a Rapid, Automated Molecular Diagnostics System
Janku F, Huang HJ, Claes B, Falchook GS, Fu S, Hong D, Ramzanali NM, Nitti G, Cabrilo G, Tsimberidou AM, Naing A, Piha-Paul SA, Wheler JJ, Karp DD, Holley VR, Zinner RG, Subbiah V, Luthra R, Kopetz S, Overman MJ, Kee BK, Patel S, Devogelaere B, Sablon E, Maertens G, Mills GB, Kurzrock R, Meric-Bernstam F. Mol Cancer Ther 15(6):1397-404, 2016. PMID: 27207774.