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Overview

Chad J. Creighton is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on medicine. Their research encompasses multiple areas of molecular biology and cancer-related subfields, reflecting a broad yet detailed approach to understanding cancer mechanisms and diagnostics.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, Creighton's work spans several specialized subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Oncology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Genetics

Key research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research

Creighton has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Nature Communications
  • Cancer Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Oncogene
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "UALCAN: An update to the integrated cancer data analysis platform," 2022, Neoplasia
  • "Comprehensive molecular characterization of mitochondrial genomes in human cancers," 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "Genomic basis for RNA alterations in cancer," 2020, Nature
  • "PIK3CA variants selectively initiate brain hyperactivity during gliomagenesis," 2020, Nature
  • "Proteogenomic characterization of 2002 human cancers reveals pan-cancer molecular subtypes and associated pathways," 2022, Nature Communications

Throughout their collaborations, Creighton has frequently worked with several co-authors. These frequent co-authors include:

  • Fengju Chen
  • Xiaochao Tan
  • Darshan S. Chandrashekar
  • Nuno A. Fonseca
  • Katherine A. Hoadley

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours

    Daniel C. Koboldt;Robert S. Fulton;Michael D. McLellan;Heather Schmidt

  • The cancer genome atlas pan-cancer analysis project

    John N Weinstein;John N Weinstein;Eric A. Collisson;Gordon B Mills;Kenna R Mills Shaw;Kenna R Mills Shaw

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of human colon and rectal cancer

    Donna M. Muzny;Matthew N. Bainbridge;Kyle Chang;Huyen H. Dinh

  • Comprehensive molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma: The cancer genome atlas research network

    Eric A. Collisson;Joshua D. Campbell;Angela N. Brooks;Angela N. Brooks;Alice H. Berger

  • UALCAN: A Portal for Facilitating Tumor Subgroup Gene Expression and Survival Analyses.

    Darshan S. Chandrashekar;Bhuwan Bashel;Sai Akshaya Hodigere Balasubramanya;Chad J. Creighton

  • The Immune Landscape of Cancer

    Vésteinn Thorsson;David L Gibbs;Scott D Brown;Denise Wolf

  • Comprehensivemolecular characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

    Chad J. Creighton;Margaret Morgan;Preethi H. Gunaratne;Preethi H. Gunaratne;David A. Wheeler

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers

    Peter S. Hammerman;Doug Voet;Michael S. Lawrence;Douglas Voet

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of urothelial bladder carcinoma

    John N Weinstein;Rehan Akbani;Bradley McIntosh Broom;Wenyi Wang

  • Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas

    Francisco Sanchez-Vega;Marco Mina;Joshua Armenia;Walid K. Chatila

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer.

    Katherine A. Hoadley;Christina Yau;Christina Yau;Toshinori Hinoue;Denise M. Wolf

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

    Matthew H Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • Comprehensive and Integrative Genomic Characterization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    Adrian Ally;Miruna Balasundaram;Rebecca Carlsen;Eric Chuah

  • Residual breast cancers after conventional therapy display mesenchymal as well as tumor-initiating features

    Chad J. Creighton;Xiaoxian Li;Melissa Landis;J. Michael Dixon

  • Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Papillary Renal-Cell Carcinoma.

    W. Marston Linehan;Paul T. Spellman;Christopher J. Ricketts;Chad J. Creighton

  • Distinct patterns of somatic genome alterations in lung adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas

    Joshua D Campbell;Anton Alexandrov;Jaegil Kim;Jeremiah Wala

  • A Genome-wide RNAi Screen Identifies Multiple Synthetic Lethal Interactions with the Ras Oncogene

    Ji Luo;Michael J. Emanuele;Danan Li;Chad J. Creighton

  • Genomic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Cancer Aneuploidy

    Alison M. Taylor;Alison M. Taylor;Juliann Shih;Gavin Ha;Gavin Ha;Galen F. Gao

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Ittmann
Michael Ittmann Baylor College of Medicine
Don L. Gibbons
Don L. Gibbons The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gordon B. Mills
Gordon B. Mills Oregon Health & Science University
Susan G. Hilsenbeck
Susan G. Hilsenbeck Baylor College of Medicine
Katherine A. Hoadley
Katherine A. Hoadley University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan M. Kurie
Jonathan M. Kurie The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Rachel Schiff
Rachel Schiff Baylor College of Medicine
John N. Weinstein
John N. Weinstein The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Charles M. Perou
Charles M. Perou University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Matthew Meyerson
Matthew Meyerson Harvard University

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