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Overview

Takashi Kohno is affiliated with the National Cancer Centre in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad fields, their work covers subfields including molecular biology, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cancer research, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's research topics encompass cancer genomics and diagnostics, lung cancer treatments and mutations, RNA modifications and cancer, lung cancer research studies, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, endometrial and cervical cancer treatments, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Frequent co-authors of Takashi Kohno include:

  • Kouya Shiraishi
  • Ryuji Hamamoto
  • Yasushi Yatabe
  • Noboru Yamamoto
  • Shun-ichi Watanabe

Takashi Kohno has published multiple papers, notable among them are:

  • Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Long-Term Prognosis of Patients With Resected Adenocarcinoma In Situ and Minimally Invasive Adenocarcinoma of the Lung, 2021, Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Expansion of Cancer Risk Profile for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants, 2022, JAMA Oncology
  • C-CAT: The National Datacenter for Cancer Genomic Medicine in Japan, 2022, Cancer Discovery
  • Clinical practice guidance for next-generation sequencing in cancer diagnosis and treatment (edition 2.1), 2020, International Journal of Clinical Oncology

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Cancer Science
  • Cancer Research
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive genomic profiles of small cell lung cancer

    Julie George;Jing Shan Lim;Se Jin Jang;Yupeng Cun

  • KIF5B-RET fusions in lung adenocarcinoma.

    Takashi Kohno;Hitoshi Ichikawa;Yasushi Totoki;Kazuki Yasuda

  • Circulating Exosomal microRNAs as Biomarkers of Colon Cancer

    Hiroko Ogata-Kawata;Masashi Izumiya;Daisuke Kurioka;Yoshitaka Honma

  • Identification of genes upregulated in ALK-positive and EGFR/KRAS/ALK-negative lung adenocarcinomas.

    Hirokazu Okayama;Takashi Kohno;Yuko Ishii;Yoko Shimada

  • Genetic polymorphisms and alternative splicing of the hOGG1 gene, that is involved in the repair of 8-hydroxyguanine in damaged DNA

    Takashi Kohno;Kazuya Shinmura;Kazuya Shinmura;Masahiko Tosaka;Masachika Tani

  • Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases

    Kazuyoshi Ishigaki;Kazuyoshi Ishigaki;Masato Akiyama;Masahiro Kanai;Masahiro Kanai;Atsushi Takahashi

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci in never-smoking women in Asia.

    Qing Lan;Chao A. Hsiung;Keitaro Matsuo;Yun Chul Hong

  • hOGG1 Ser326Cys Polymorphism and Lung Cancer Susceptibility

    H. Sugimura;T. Kohno;K. Wakai;K. Nagura

  • Prevalence and specificity of LKB1 genetic alterations in lung cancers

    S. Matsumoto;R. Iwakawa;K. Takahashi;T. Kohno

  • Comprehensive histologic analysis of ALK-rearranged lung carcinomas.

    Akihiko Yoshida;Koji Tsuta;Harumi Nakamura;Takashi Kohno

  • Cloning of a human homolog of the yeast OGG1 gene that is involved in the repair of oxidative DNA damage

    Kiyomitsu Arai;Kiyomitsu Arai;Kazuhiro Morishita;Kazuya Shinmura;Takashi Kohno

  • Feasibility and utility of a panel testing for 114 cancer-associated genes in a clinical setting: A hospital-based study

    Kuniko Sunami;Hitoshi Ichikawa;Takashi Kubo;Mamoru Kato

  • Histone acetylation by CBP and p300 at double-strand break sites facilitates SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling and the recruitment of non-homologous end joining factors

    H Ogiwara;A Ui;A Ui;A Otsuka;H Satoh

  • A synthetic lethality-based strategy to treat cancers harboring a genetic deficiency in the chromatin remodeling factor BRG1.

    Takahiro Oike;Hideaki Ogiwara;Yuichi Tominaga;Kentaro Ito

  • Frequent BRG1/SMARCA4-inactivating mutations in human lung cancer cell lines.

    Pedro P. Medina;Octavio A. Romero;Takashi Kohno;Luis M. Montuenga

  • Beyond ALK-RET, ROS1 and other oncogene fusions in lung cancer

    Takashi Kohno;Takashi Nakaoku;Koji Tsuta;Katsuya Tsuchihara

  • Gene aberrations for precision medicine against lung adenocarcinoma.

    Motonobu Saito;Kouya Shiraishi;Hideo Kunitoh;Seiichi Takenoshita

  • The association of microRNA expression with prognosis and progression in early stage, non small cell lung adenocarcinoma: a retrospective analysis of three cohorts

    Motonobu Saito;Aaron J. Schetter;Steen Mollerup;Takashi Kohno

  • Long-term expansion of alveolar stem cells derived from human iPS cells in organoids

    Yuki Yamamoto;Shimpei Gotoh;Yohei Korogi;Masahide Seki

  • Clinical utility of circulating tumor DNA for molecular assessment in pancreatic cancer

    Erina Takai;Yasushi Totoki;Hiromi Nakamura;Chigusa Morizane

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Yokota
Jun Yokota National Cancer Centre
Keiichi Fukuda
Keiichi Fukuda Keio University
Koji Tsuta
Koji Tsuta Kansai Medical University
Yuichiro Ohe
Yuichiro Ohe National Cancer Centre
Satoshi Ogawa
Satoshi Ogawa Keio University
Tatsuhiro Shibata
Tatsuhiro Shibata University of Tokyo
Hiromi Sakamoto
Hiromi Sakamoto National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Teruhiko Yoshida
Teruhiko Yoshida National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Curtis C. Harris
Curtis C. Harris National Institutes of Health
Hisao Asamura
Hisao Asamura Keio University

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