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Tapio Visakorpi

Tapio Visakorpi

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D-Index
98
Citations
37942
World Ranking
8884
National Ranking
104

Overview

Tapio Visakorpi is affiliated with Tampere University in Finland and works primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research focuses heavily on cancer, particularly prostate cancer, with significant contributions in related molecular mechanisms, cancer genomics, diagnostics, and treatment strategies.

The scientist has published extensively on topics such as prostate cancer treatment and research, prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, cancer genomics and diagnostics, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, RNA research and splicing, cancer, lipids, and metabolism, as well as immunotherapy and immune responses.

Frequent publication venues for Visakorpi's work include:

  • The Prostate
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature Communications
  • Oncogene
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Visakorpi are:

  • Matti Nykter
  • Teuvo L.J. Tammela
  • Jack A. Schalken
  • Leena Latonen
  • Teemu J. Murtola

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Single-cell ATAC and RNA sequencing reveal pre-existing and persistent cells associated with prostate cancer relapse," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Prostate cancer evolution from multilineage primary to single lineage metastases with implications for liquid biopsy," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Chromatin-directed proteomics-identified network of endogenous androgen receptor in prostate cancer cells," 2021, Oncogene
  • "Expression of the miR-200 family in tumor tissue, plasma and urine of epithelial ovarian cancer patients in comparison to benign counterparts," 2020, BMC Research Notes
  • "Single cell and spatial transcriptomics highlight the interaction of club-like cells with immunosuppressive myeloid cells in prostate cancer," 2024, Nature Communications

The main subfields that Visakorpi's work addresses include pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cancer research, molecular biology, immunology, and oncology. Their investigations contribute to understanding cancer progression, molecular pathways, and immune interactions within the tumor microenvironment.

Best Publications

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • In vivo amplification of the androgen receptor gene and progression of human prostate cancer.

    Tapio Visakorpi;Eija Hyytinen;Pasi Koivisto;Minna Tanner

  • The evolutionary history of lethal metastatic prostate cancer.

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

  • MicroRNA Expression Profiling in Prostate Cancer

    Kati P. Porkka;Minja J. Pfeiffer;Kati K. Waltering;Robert L. Vessella

  • Amplification and Overexpression of Androgen Receptor Gene in Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer

    Marika J. Linja;Kimmo J. Savinainen;Outi R. Saramäki;Teuvo L. J. Tammela

  • Androgen Receptor Gene Amplification: A Possible Molecular Mechanism for Androgen Deprivation Therapy Failure in Prostate Cancer

    Pasi Koivisto;Juha Kononen;Christian Palmberg;Teuvo Tammela

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

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

  • Changes in circulating microRNA levels associated with prostate cancer

    R J Bryant;T Pawlowski;J W F Catto;G Marsden

  • Copy number analysis indicates monoclonal origin of lethal metastatic prostate cancer

    Wennuan Liu;Sari Laitinen;Sofia Khan;Mauno Vihinen

  • Long Noncoding RNA in Prostate, Bladder, and Kidney Cancer

    Elena S. Martens-Uzunova;René Böttcher;René Böttcher;Carlo M. Croce;Guido Jenster

  • Evidence for a prostate cancer susceptibility locus on the X chromosome.

    Jianfeng Xu;Deborah Meyers;Diha Freije;Sarah Isaacs

  • Genetic Changes in Primary and Recurrent Prostate Cancer by Comparative Genomic Hybridization

    Tapio Visakorpi;Anne H. Kallioniemi;Ann-Christine Syvänen;Eija R. Hyytinen

  • MicroRNA in prostate, bladder, and kidney cancer: a systematic review.

    James W F Catto;Antonio Alcaraz;Anders S. Bjartell;Ralph W deVere White

  • A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer

    Ali Amin Al Olama;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Sonja I. Berndt;David V. Conti

  • Association of c-erbB-2 protein over-expression with high rate of cell proliferation, increased risk of visceral metastasis and poor long-term survival in breast cancer.

    Olli-P. Kallioniemi;Kaija Holli;Tapio Visakorpi;Timo Koivula

  • Association of Overexpression of Tumor Suppressor Protien p53 With Rapid Cell Proliferation and Poor Prognosis in Node-Negative Breast Cancer Patients

    Jorma Isola;Tapio Visakorpi;Kaija Holli;Olli-P. Kallioniemi

  • Genetic Alterations in Hormone-Refractory Recurrent Prostate Carcinomas

    Nina N. Nupponen;Laura Kakkola;Pasi Koivisto;Tapio Visakorpi

  • Extensive transduction of nonrepetitive DNA mediated by L1 retrotransposition in cancer genomes

    Jose M. C. Tubio;Yilong Li;Young Seok Ju;Inigo Martincorena

  • The molecular genetics of prostate cancer.

    Tapio Visakorpi

  • The evolutionary history of lethal metastatic prostate cancer

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Teuvo L.J. Tammela
Teuvo L.J. Tammela Tampere University
Jorma Isola
Jorma Isola Tampere University
William B. Isaacs
William B. Isaacs Johns Hopkins University
Colin Cooper
Colin Cooper University of East Anglia
Rosalind A. Eeles
Rosalind A. Eeles Institute of Cancer Research
Robert L. Vessella
Robert L. Vessella University of Washington
David E. Neal
David E. Neal University of Cambridge
Ultan McDermott
Ultan McDermott AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Olli Kallioniemi
Olli Kallioniemi Karolinska Institute
David C. Wedge
David C. Wedge University of Manchester

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