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Colin Cooper is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and focuses primarily on research within Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, including Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, Spectroscopy, Molecular Biology, and Surgery.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to prostate cancer treatment and research, cancer, lipids, and metabolism, advanced proteomics techniques and applications, prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, cancer genomics and diagnostics, viral-associated cancers and disorders, as well as polyomavirus and related diseases.

Among the recent papers published by Colin Cooper are the following:

  • "The landscape of viral associations in human cancers," 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "Cancer invasion and anaerobic bacteria: new insights into mechanisms," 2024, Journal of Medical Microbiology
  • "The architecture of clonal expansions in morphologically normal tissue from cancerous and non-cancerous prostates," 2022, Molecular Cancer
  • "A novel stratification framework for predicting outcome in patients with prostate cancer," 2020, British Journal of Cancer
  • "Genomic evolution shapes prostate cancer disease type," 2024, Cell Genomics

Cooper frequently collaborates with a set of co-authors, reflecting ongoing research partnerships. These include:

  • Daniel Brewer (16 publications)
  • Jeremy Clark (7 publications)
  • Malik Alawi (6 publications)
  • Shea P. Connell (6 publications)
  • Maria Frantzi (5 publications)

They publish regularly in a range of venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research): 4 publications
  • Nature Genetics: 2 publications
  • Cancers: 2 publications
  • Journal of Medical Microbiology: 1 publication
  • Molecular Cancer: 1 publication

Best Publications

  • Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer

    Helen Davies;Graham R. Bignell;Charles Cox;Philip Stephens

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • The Heidelberg classification of renal cell tumours

    Gyula Kovacs;Mohammed Akhtar;Bruce J. Beckwith;Peter Bugert

  • The evolutionary history of lethal metastatic prostate cancer.

    Gunes Gundem;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Barbara Kremeyer;Ludmil B. Alexandrov

  • THE PREVALENCE OF VERTEBRAL DEFORMITY IN EUROPEAN MEN AND WOMEN: THE EUROPEAN VERTEBRAL OSTEOPOROSIS STUDY

    T. W. O'Neill;D. Felsenberg;J. Varlow;C. Cooper

  • Molecular cloning of a new transforming gene from a chemically transformed human cell line

    Colin S. Cooper;Morag Park;Donald G. Blair;Michael A. Tainsky

  • Phase I Clinical Trial of a Selective Inhibitor of CYP17, Abiraterone Acetate, Confirms That Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Commonly Remains Hormone Driven

    Gerhardt Attard;Alison H.M. Reid;Timothy A. Yap;Florence Raynaud

  • Multiple newly identified loci associated with prostate cancer susceptibility.

    Rosalind A Eeles;Rosalind A Eeles;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Graham G Giles;Graham G Giles;Ali Amin Al Olama

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

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

  • Identification of novel genes, SYT and SSX, involved in the t(X;18)(p11.2;q11.2) translocation found in human synovial sarcoma

    J Clark;P J Rocques;A J Crew;S Gill

  • Lung cancer: intragenic ERBB2 kinase mutations in tumours.

    Philip Stephens;Chris Hunter;Graham Bignell;Sarah Edkins

  • Radiographic patterns of osteoarthritis of the knee joint in the community: the importance of the patellofemoral joint.

    T E McAlindon;S Snow;C Cooper;P A Dieppe

  • Mechanism of met oncogene activation

    Morag Park;Michael Dean;Colin S. Cooper;Martin Schmidt

  • A census of amplified and overexpressed human cancer genes

    Thomas Santarius;Janet Shipley;Daniel Brewer;Michael R. Stratton

  • Characterization of ERG, AR and PTEN Gene Status in Circulating Tumor Cells from Patients with Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

    Gerhardt Attard;Joost F. Swennenhuis;David Olmos;Alison H.M. Reid

  • Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

    Rosalind A. Eeles;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sara Benlloch;Edward J. Saunders

  • Fusion of SYT to two genes, SSX1 and SSX2, encoding proteins with homology to the Kruppel-associated box in human synovial sarcoma.

    A.J. Crew;J. Clark;C. Fisher;S. Gill

  • Impact of SYT-SSX fusion type on the clinical behavior of synovial sarcoma: a multi-institutional retrospective study of 243 patients.

    Marc Ladanyi;Cristina R Antonescu;Denis H Leung;James M Woodruff

  • The evolutionary history of lethal metastatic prostate cancer

    G Gundem;P Van Loo;B Kremeyer;L B Alexandrov

  • EPIGENETICS AND GENETICS A census of amplified and overexpressed human cancer genes

    T Santarius;J Shipley;D Brewer;M. R Stratton

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Frieze
Alan Frieze Carnegie Mellon University
Tomasz Radzik
Tomasz Radzik King's College London
Rosalind A. Eeles
Rosalind A. Eeles Institute of Cancer Research
David E. Neal
David E. Neal University of Cambridge
Chris Parker
Chris Parker Institute of Cancer Research
Daniel M. Berney
Daniel M. Berney Barts Health NHS Trust
Zsofia Kote-Jarai
Zsofia Kote-Jarai Institute of Cancer Research
Gerhardt Attard
Gerhardt Attard University College London
David P. Dearnaley
David P. Dearnaley Institute of Cancer Research
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge

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