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Piotr A. Mieczkowski is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield. Other subfields of their work include Plant Science, Cancer Research, Genetics, and Epidemiology. The scientist's research topics encompass DNA Repair Mechanisms, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Fungal and yeast genetics research, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy, and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment.

The scientist has published extensively, with frequent publication venues including UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nucleic Acids Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature Communications.

  • Evaluating the analytical validity of circulating tumor DNA sequencing assays for precision oncology (2021, Nature Biotechnology)
  • Specific modulation of the root immune system by a community of commensal bacteria (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Adaptation and selection shape clonal evolution of tumors during residual disease and recurrence (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Long transposon-rich centromeres in an oomycete reveal divergence of centromere features in Stramenopila-Alveolata-Rhizaria lineages (2020, PLoS Genetics)
  • Mutation signatures specific to DNA alkylating agents in yeast and cancers (2020, Nucleic Acids Research)

Collaborations have been established with several frequent co-authors, including Ewa P. Malc, Natalie Saini, Steven A. Roberts, Dmitry A. Gordenin, and Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

    Gad Getz;Stacey B. Gabriel;Kristian Cibulskis;Eric Lander

  • 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

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

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

  • 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

  • Comprehensive, Integrative Genomic Analysis of Diffuse Lower-Grade Gliomas.

    Daniel J. Brat;Roel G.W. Verhaak;Kenneth D. Aldape;W. K.Alfred Yung

  • 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

  • Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma

    Rehan Akbani;Kadir C. Akdemir;B. Arman Aksoy;Monique Albert

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

    Nishant Agrawal;Rehan Akbani;B. Arman Aksoy;Adrian Ally

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

    Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

  • 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

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

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

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

Frequent Co-Authors

Gad Getz
Gad Getz Broad Institute
Charles M. Perou
Charles M. Perou University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rameen Beroukhim
Rameen Beroukhim Harvard University
Andrew D. Cherniack
Andrew D. Cherniack Broad Institute
David I. Heiman
David I. Heiman Broad Institute
Matthew Meyerson
Matthew Meyerson Harvard University
Marco A. Marra
Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia
Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia
Andrew J. Mungall
Andrew J. Mungall BC Cancer Agency
Robert A. Holt
Robert A. Holt BC Cancer Research Institute

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