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Overview

Paul C. Boutros is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant publications also in the field of medicine. The scientist's work encompasses several subfields, notably pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, cancer research, genetics, and oncology.

The topics covered in their research include prostate cancer treatment and research, cancer genomics and diagnostics, prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, RNA modifications and cancer, molecular biology techniques and applications, and head and neck cancer studies.

Paul C. Boutros has published extensively, with numerous papers appearing in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Cancer Research, Nature Genetics, and European Urology.

Their recent papers include:

  1. The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer, 2020, Nature
  2. The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers, 2020, Nature
  3. Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes, 2020, Nature
  4. Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing, 2020, Nature Genetics
  5. Characterizing genetic intra-tumor heterogeneity across 2,658 human cancer genomes, 2021, Cell

Collaborations have been frequent with several researchers including Takafumi N. Yamaguchi, Kadir C. Akdemir, Julie Livingstone, David J. Adams, and Gad Getz. The number of joint publications with these coauthors ranges from 27 to 44.

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Michael S. Lawrence;Carrie Sougnez;Lee Lichtenstein;Kristian Cibulskis

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

  • VennDiagram: a package for the generation of highly-customizable Venn and Euler diagrams in R

    Hanbo Chen;Paul C Boutros

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers

    Moritz Gerstung;Moritz Gerstung;Clemency Jolly;Ignaty Leshchiner;Stefan C Dentro;Stefan C Dentro;Stefan C Dentro

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

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

  • Pathogenic Germline Variants in 10,389 Adult Cancers

    Kuan-Lin Huang;R Jay Mashl;Yige Wu;Deborah I Ritter

  • Genomic hallmarks of localized, non-indolent prostate cancer

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

  • Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing

    Isidro Cortés-Ciriano;Jake June-Koo Lee;Ruibin Xi;Dhawal Jain

  • The c-Myc Oncogene Directly Induces the H19 Noncoding RNA by Allele-Specific Binding to Potentiate Tumorigenesis

    Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy;Suzanne K. Lau;Paul C. Boutros;Fereshteh Khosravi

  • Molecular landmarks of tumor hypoxia across cancer types.

    Vinayak Bhandari;Vinayak Bhandari;Christianne Hoey;Christianne Hoey;Lydia Y Liu;Lydia Y Liu;Emilie Lalonde;Emilie Lalonde

  • Spatial genomic heterogeneity within localized, multifocal prostate cancer

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

  • Analysis of the genetic phylogeny of multifocal prostate cancer identifies multiple independent clonal expansions in neoplastic and morphologically normal prostate tissue

    Colin S Cooper;Colin S Cooper;Rosalind Eeles;Rosalind Eeles;David C Wedge;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo

  • Characterization of HPV and host genome interactions in primary head and neck cancers.

    Michael Parfenov;Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu;Nils Gehlenborg;Nils Gehlenborg;Samuel S. Freeman

  • Dysregulation of the mevalonate pathway promotes transformation

    James W. Clendening;Aleks Pandyra;Paul C. Boutros;Samah El Ghamrasni

  • Predicting outcomes in radiation oncology--multifactorial decision support systems

    Philippe Lambin;Ruud G. P. M. van Stiphout;Maud H. W. Starmans;Emmanuel Rios-Velazquez

  • Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Regulates Distinct Dioxin-Dependent and Dioxin-Independent Gene Batteries

    Nathalie Tijet;Paul C Boutros;Ivy D Moffat;Allan B Okey

  • Characterisation of retinoblastomas without RB1 mutations: genomic, gene expression, and clinical studies.

    Diane E Rushlow;Berber M Mol;Jennifer Y Kennett;Stephanie Yee;Stephanie Yee

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert G. Bristow
Robert G. Bristow University of Manchester
Syed Haider
Syed Haider Institute of Cancer Research
Theodorus H. van der Kwast
Theodorus H. van der Kwast University Health Network
Linda Z. Penn
Linda Z. Penn University of Toronto
Mathieu Lupien
Mathieu Lupien Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Igor Jurisica
Igor Jurisica University Health Network
Allan B. Okey
Allan B. Okey University of Toronto
John Douglas Mcpherson
John Douglas Mcpherson University of California, Davis
John M. S. Bartlett
John M. S. Bartlett University of Toronto
Melania Pintilie
Melania Pintilie Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

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