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Genetics

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88
Citations
37885
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1149
National Ranking
38

Medicine

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88
Citations
37928
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12963
National Ranking
529

Overview

Colin Collins is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. The research focus centers on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with particular attention to molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cancer research, oncology, and immunology as subfields of study.

The scientist's main research themes include prostate cancer treatment and research, molecular biology techniques and applications, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, PARP inhibition in cancer therapy, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, and RNA research and splicing.

Recent publications illustrate the scope of their work. Notable papers include:

  • The long noncoding RNA H19 regulates tumor plasticity in neuroendocrine prostate cancer, 2021, Nature Communications
  • AITL: Adversarial Inductive Transfer Learning with input and output space adaptation for pharmacogenomics, 2020, Bioinformatics
  • Single-cell transcriptional regulation and genetic evolution of neuroendocrine prostate cancer, 2022, iScience
  • Transient Sox9 Expression Facilitates Resistance to Androgen-Targeted Therapy in Prostate Cancer, 2020, Clinical Cancer Research
  • Multiomics Characterization of Low-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma Identifies Potential Biomarkers of MEK Inhibitor Sensitivity and Therapeutic Vulnerability, 2021, Cancer Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Colin Collins are:

  • Yen-Yi Lin
  • Yuzhuo Wang
  • Martin Gleave
  • Anne Haegert
  • Stanislav Volik

The scientist has published multiple articles mainly in these venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bioinformatics
  • Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
  • Cancer Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • High resolution analysis of DNA copy number variation using comparative genomic hybridization to microarrays

    Daniel Pinkel;Daniel Pinkel;Richard Segraves;Damir Sudar;Steven Clark

  • Fluorescence in situ hybridization with human chromosome-specific libraries: detection of trisomy 21 and translocations of chromosome 4.

    D Pinkel;J Landegent;C Collins;J Fuscoe

  • PIK3CA is implicated as an oncogene in ovarian cancer

    Laleh Shayesteh;Yiling Lu;Wen Lin Kuo;Russell Baldocchi

  • Alagille syndrome is caused by mutations in human Jagged1, which encodes a ligand for Notch1

    Linheng Li;Ian D. Krantz;Yu Deng;Yu Deng;Anna Genin

  • Identification of a gene encoding an acyl CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase, a key enzyme in triacylglycerol synthesis

    Sylvaine Cases;Steven J. Smith;Yao-Wu Zheng;Heather M. Myers

  • Chromosome aberrations in solid tumors.

    Donna G Albertson;Colin Collins;Frank McCormick;Joe W Gray;Joe W Gray

  • Molecular Characterization of Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer and Identification of New Drug Targets

    Himisha Beltran;David S. Rickman;Kyung Park;Sung Suk Chae

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Quantitative mapping of amplicon structure by array CGH identifies CYP24 as a candidate oncogene.

    Donna G. Albertson;Bauke Ylstra;Richard Segraves;Colin Collins

  • Genomic hallmarks of localized, non-indolent prostate cancer

    Michael Fraser;Veronica Y. Sabelnykova;Takafumi N. Yamaguchi;Lawrence E. Heisler

  • TMPRSS2-ERG Fusion Prostate Cancer: An Early Molecular Event Associated With Invasion

    Sven Perner;Sven Perner;Juan Miguel Mosquera;Francesca Demichelis;Matthias D. Hofer

  • Spatial genomic heterogeneity within localized, multifocal prostate cancer

    Paul C. Boutros;Paul C. Boutros;Michael Fraser;Nicholas J. Harding;Richard De Borja

  • Androgen receptor gene aberrations in circulating cell-free DNA: biomarkers of therapeutic resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer

    Arun A Azad;Stanislav V Volik;Alexander W Wyatt;Anne Haegert

  • Mutations of the forkhead/winged-helix gene, FKHL7, in patients with Axenfeld-Rieger anomaly.

    Alan J. Mears;Tim Jordan;Farideh Mirzayans;Stéphane Dubois

  • Tumour genomic and microenvironmental heterogeneity for integrated prediction of 5-year biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer: a retrospective cohort study

    Emilie Lalonde;Emilie Lalonde;Adrian S Ishkanian;Jenna Sykes;Michael Fraser;Michael Fraser

  • Positional cloning of ZNF217 and NABC1: Genes amplified at 20q13.2 and overexpressed in breast carcinoma

    Colin Collins;Johanna M. Rommens;David Kowbel;Tony Godfrey

  • Genome scanning with array CGH delineates regional alterations in mouse islet carcinomas

    Graeme Hodgson;Jeffrey H. Hager;Stas Volik;Sujatmi Hariono

  • Widespread and Functional RNA Circularization in Localized Prostate Cancer

    Sujun Chen;Sujun Chen;Sujun Chen;Vincent Huang;Xin Xu;Julie Livingstone

  • The Master Neural Transcription Factor BRN2 Is an Androgen Receptor-Suppressed Driver of Neuroendocrine Differentiation in Prostate Cancer.

    Jennifer L Bishop;Daksh Thaper;Daksh Thaper;Sepideh Vahid;Sepideh Vahid;Alastair Davies

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuzhuo Wang
Yuzhuo Wang University of British Columbia
Martin E. Gleave
Martin E. Gleave University of British Columbia
Joe W. Gray
Joe W. Gray Oregon Health & Science University
Alexander W. Wyatt
Alexander W. Wyatt University of British Columbia
Daniel Pinkel
Daniel Pinkel University of California, San Francisco
Ladan Fazli
Ladan Fazli University of British Columbia
Mark A. Rubin
Mark A. Rubin University of Bern
Paul C. Boutros
Paul C. Boutros University of California, Los Angeles
Robert G. Bristow
Robert G. Bristow University of Manchester
Amina Zoubeidi
Amina Zoubeidi University of British Columbia

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