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Nallasivam Palanisamy

Nallasivam Palanisamy

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
70
Citations
22363
World Ranking
1406
National Ranking
715

Overview

Nallasivam Palanisamy is affiliated with the Henry Ford Health System in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Genetics, and Oncology.

Their scholarly output includes prominent work in prostate cancer treatment and research, prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, cancer genomics and diagnostics, RNA modifications and cancer, urologic and reproductive health conditions, and molecular biology techniques and applications.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Cancer Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Cancer Research, European Urology Open Science, and The Prostate.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Androgen deprivation upregulates SPINK1 expression and potentiates cellular plasticity in prostate cancer," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Virus-positive Merkel Cell Carcinoma Is an Independent Prognostic Group with Distinct Predictive Biomarkers," 2021, Clinical Cancer Research
  • "High-Throughput Label-Free Isolation of Heterogeneous Circulating Tumor Cells and CTC Clusters from Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients," 2020, Cancers
  • "The MD Anderson Prostate Cancer Patient-derived Xenograft Series (MDA PCa PDX) Captures the Molecular Landscape of Prostate Cancer and Facilitates Marker-driven Therapy Development," 2020, Clinical Cancer Research
  • "Transcriptional network involving ERG and AR orchestrates Distal-less homeobox-1 mediated prostate cancer progression," 2021, Nature Communications

Regular collaborators include Shannon Carskadon, Nilesh Gupta, Sean R. Williamson, Dhananjay Chitale, and Bushra Ateeq, with whom they have co-authored multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • The mutational landscape of lethal castration-resistant prostate cancer

    Catherine S. Grasso;Yi Mi Wu;Dan R. Robinson;Xuhong Cao

  • Genomic Loss of microRNA-101 Leads to Overexpression of Histone Methyltransferase EZH2 in Cancer

    Sooryanarayana Varambally;Qi Cao;Ram Shankar Mani;Sunita Shankar

  • Transcriptome sequencing across a prostate cancer cohort identifies PCAT-1 , an unannotated lincRNA implicated in disease progression

    John R Prensner;Matthew K Iyer;O Alejandro Balbin;Saravana M Dhanasekaran

  • Transcriptome Sequencing to Detect Gene Fusions in Cancer

    Christopher A. Maher;Chandan Kumar-Sinha;Xuhong Cao;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram

  • The oestrogen receptor alpha-regulated lncRNA NEAT1 is a critical modulator of prostate cancer

    Dimple Chakravarty;Andrea Sboner;Sujit S. Nair;Eugenia Giannopoulou

  • Whole-Genome Cartography of Estrogen Receptor α Binding Sites

    Chin-Yo Lin;Vinsensius B. B. Vega;Jane S. Thomsen;Tao Zhang

  • Rearrangements of the RAF Kinase Pathway in Prostate Cancer, Gastric Cancer and Melanoma

    Nallasivam Palanisamy;Bushra Ateeq;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Dorothee Pflueger;Dorothee Pflueger

  • A Common Molecular Basis for Rearrangement Disorders on Chromosome 22q11

    Lisa Edelmann;Raj K. Pandita;Elizabeth Spiteri;Birgit Funke

  • Mechanistic rationale for inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase in ETS gene fusion-positive prostate cancer.

    J. Chad Brenner;Bushra Ateeq;Yong Li;Anastasia K. Yocum

  • Induced chromosomal proximity and gene fusions in prostate cancer

    Ram-Shankar Mani;Scott A. Tomlins;Kaitlin Callahan;Aparna Ghosh

  • Chimeric transcript discovery by paired-end transcriptome sequencing

    Christopher A. Maher;Nallasivam Palanisamy;John C. Brenner;Xuhong Cao

  • Functionally recurrent rearrangements of the MAST kinase and Notch gene families in breast cancer

    Dan R. Robinson;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Yi Mi Wu;Sunita Shankar

  • Genomic amplification of the human telomerase gene (TERC) in pap smears predicts the development of cervical cancer.

    Kerstin Heselmeyer-Haddad;Kathrin Sommerfeld;Nicole M. White;Nadia Chaudhri

  • Derivation of clinically compliant MSCs from CD105+, CD24- differentiated human ESCs.

    Qizhou Lian;Qizhou Lian;Elias Lye;Elias Lye;Keng Suan Yeo;Eileen Khia Way Tan

  • Expressed Pseudogenes in the Transcriptional Landscape of Human Cancers

    Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Chandan Kumar-Sinha;Sunita Shankar;Dan R. Robinson

  • Baculoviral Vector‐Mediated Transient and Stable Transgene Expression in Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Jieming Zeng;Juan Du;Ying Zhao;Nallasivam Palanisamy

  • IRTA1 and IRTA2, Novel Immunoglobulin Superfamily Receptors Expressed in B Cells and Involved in Chromosome 1q21 Abnormalities in B Cell Malignancy

    Georgia Hatzivassiliou;Ira Miller;Jun Takizawa;Nallasivam Palanisamy

  • Fluorescence in situ hybridization study shows association of PTEN deletion with ERG rearrangement during prostate cancer progression

    Bo Han;Rohit Mehra;Robert J Lonigro;Lei Wang

  • HER2 Drives Luminal Breast Cancer Stem Cells in the Absence of HER2 Amplification: Implications for Efficacy of Adjuvant Trastuzumab

    Suthinee Ithimakin;Kathleen C. Day;Fayaz Malik;Qin Zen

  • Coordinated Regulation of Polycomb Group Complexes through microRNAs in Cancer

    Qi Cao;Ram Shankar Mani;Bushra Ateeq;Saravana M. Dhanasekaran

Frequent Co-Authors

Arul M. Chinnaiyan
Arul M. Chinnaiyan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Javed Siddiqui
Javed Siddiqui University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sooryanarayana Varambally
Sooryanarayana Varambally University of Alabama at Birmingham
Scott A. Tomlins
Scott A. Tomlins University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Xuhong Cao
Xuhong Cao University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rohit Mehra
Rohit Mehra University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christopher G. Maher
Christopher G. Maher University of Sydney
Saravana M. Dhanasekaran
Saravana M. Dhanasekaran University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dan R. Robinson
Dan R. Robinson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
R. S. K. Chaganti
R. S. K. Chaganti Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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