Published in Cell
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a slowly developing malignancy postulated to evolve from premalignant lesions in chronically damaged livers. However, it was never established that premalignant lesions actually contain tumor progenitors that give rise to cancer. Here, we describe isolation and characterization of HCC progenitor cells (HcPCs) from ...
Published in Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America
This article reviews the epidemiology of both unilateral and bilateral (NF-2) acoustic tumors. The growth rate of acoustic tumors is examined from a clinical, radiographic, and laboratory perspective. The anatomic, histologic, and biochemical considerations as well as the influences of sex hormones on acoustic tumor formation are reviewed. Also pre...
Published in Genome Research
Comparison of human sequences with the DNA of other mammals is an excellent means of identifying functional elements in the human genome. Here we describe the utility of high-density oligonucleotide arrays as a rapid approach for comparing human sequences with the DNA of multiple species whose sequences are not presently available. High-density arr...
Published in Genome Biology
Multi-species comparisons of DNA sequences are more powerful for discovering functional sequences than pairwise DNA sequence comparisons. Most current computational tools have been designed for pairwise comparisons, and efficient extension of these tools to multiple species will require knowledge of the ideal evolutionary distance to choose and the...
