Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Systematic identification of genes with a cancer-testis expression pattern in 19 cancer types

  • Cheng Wang,
  • Yayun Gu,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Kaipeng Xie,
  • Meng Zhu,
  • Ningbin Dai,
  • Yue Jiang,
  • Xuejiang Guo,
  • Mingxi Liu,
  • Juncheng Dai,
  • Linxiang Wu,
  • Guangfu Jin,
  • Hongxia Ma,
  • Tao Jiang,
  • Rong Yin,
  • Yankai Xia,
  • Li Liu,
  • Shouyu Wang,
  • Bin Shen,
  • Ran Huo,
  • Qianghu Wang,
  • Lin Xu,
  • Liuqing Yang,
  • Xingxu Huang,
  • Hongbing Shen,
  • Jiahao Sha,
  • Zhibin Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10499
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Genes normally expressed in the testis but aberrantly expressed in cancer are termed cancer testis antigens. In this study, the authors catalogue the expression of these genes in 19 different cancer types and correlate expression with some somatically mutated oncogenes.