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Lesurf R, Breckpot J, Bouwmeester J, Hanafi N, Jain A, Liang Y, Papaz T, Lougheed J, Mondal T, Alsalehi M, Altamirano-Diaz L, Oechslin E, Audain E, Dombrowsky G, Postma AV, Woudstra OI, Bouma BJ, Hitz MP, Bezzina CR, Blue GM, Winlaw DS, Mital S. A validated heart-specific model for splice-disrupting variants in childhood heart disease. Genome Med
. 2024 Oct 15;16(1):119. PMID: 39402625
Mitina A, Khan M, Lesurf R, Yin Y, Engchuan W, Hamdan O, Pellecchia G, Trost B, Backstrom I, Guo K, Pallotto LM, Lam Doong PH, Wang Z, Nalpathamkalam T, Thiruvahindrapuram B, Papaz T, Pearson CE, Ragoussis J, Subbarao P, Azad MB, Turvey SE, Mandhane P, Moraes TJ, Simons E, Scherer SW, Lougheed J, Mondal T, Smythe J, Altamirano-Diaz L, Oechslin E, Mital S, Yuen RKC. Genome-wide enhancer-associated tandem repeats are expanded in cardiomyopathy. EBioMedicine. 2024 Mar;101:105027. PMID: 38418263
Akinrinade O, Lesurf R, Genomics England Research Consortium; Lougheed J, Mondal T, Smythe J, Altamirano-Diaz L, Oechslin E, Mital S. Age and Sex Differences in the Genetics of Cardiomyopathy. J Cardiovasc Transl Res. 2023 Dec;16(6):1287-1302. PMID: 37477868
Berman DM, Lee AY, Lesurf R, Patel PG, Ebrahimizadeh W, Bayani J, Lee LA, Boufaied N, Selvarajah S, Jamaspishvili T, Guérard KP, Dion D, Kawashima A, Clarke GM, How N, Jackson CL, Scarlata E, Siddiqui K, Okello JBA, Aprikian AG, Moussa M, Finelli A, Chin J, Brimo F, Bauman G, Loblaw A, Venkateswaran V, Buttyan R, Chevalier S, Thomson A, Park PC, Siemens DR, Lapointe J, Boutros PC, Bartlett JMS. Multimodal Biomarkers That Predict the Presence of Gleason Pattern 4: Potential Impact for Active Surveillance. J Urol. 2023 Aug;210(2):257-271. PMID: 37126232
Lesurf R*, Said A*, Akinrinade O, Breckpot J, Delfosse K, Liu T, Yao R, Persad G, McKenna F, Noche RR, Oliveros W, Mattioli K, Shah S, Miron A, Yang Q, Meng G, Yue MCS, Sung WWL, Thiruvahindrapuram B, Lougheed J, Oechslin E, Mondal T, Bergin L, Smythe J, Jayappa S, Rao VJ, Shenthar J, Dhandapany PS, Semsarian C, Weintraub RG, Bagnall RD, Ingles J; Genomics England Research Consortium; Melé M, Maass PG, Ellis J, Scherer SW, Mital S. Whole genome sequencing delineates regulatory, copy number, and cryptic splice variants in early onset cardiomyopathy. NPJ Genom Med. 2022 Mar 14. PMID: 35288587
Livingstone J, Shiah YJ, Yamaguchi TN, Heisler LE, Huang V, Lesurf R, Gebo T, Carlin B, Eng S, Drysdale E, Green J, van der Kwast T, Bristow RG, Fraser M, Boutros PC. The telomere length landscape of prostate cancer. Nat Commun. 2021 Nov 25. PMID: 34824250
Škorić-Milosavljević D, Lahrouchi N, Bosada FM, Dombrowsky G, Williams SG, Lesurf R, Tjong FVY, Walsh R, Bouchikhi IE, Breckpot J, Audain E, Ilgun A, Beekman L, Ratbi I, Strong A, Muenke M, Heide S, Muir AM, Hababa M, Cross L, Zhou D, Pastinen T, German Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects, Zackai E, Atmani S, Ouldim K, Adadi N, Steindl K, Rauch A, Brook D, Wilsdon A, Kuipers I, Blom NA, Mulder BJ, Mefford HC, Keren B, Joset P, Kruszka P, Thiffault I, Sheppard SE, Roberts A, Lodder EM, Keavney BD, Clur SB, Mital S, Hitz M, Christoffels VM, Postma AV, Bezzina CR. Rare variants in KDR, encoding VEGF Receptor 2, are associated with tetralogy of Fallot. Genet Med. 2021 Jun 10. PMID: 34113005
Bhandari V, Hoey C, Liu LY, Lalonde E, Ray J, Livingstone J, Lesurf R, Shiah YJ, Vujcic T, Huang X, Espiritu SMG, Heisler LE, Yousif F, Huang V, Yamaguchi TN, Yao CQ, Sabelnykova VY, Fraser M, Chua MLK, van der Kwast T, Liu SK, Boutros PC, Bristow RG. Molecular landmarks of tumor hypoxia across cancer types. Nature Genetics. 2019 Feb;51(2):308-318. PMID: 30643250
Lesurf R, Griffith OL, Griffith M, Hundal J, Trani L, Watson MA, Aft R, Ellis MJ, Ota D, Suman VJ, Meric-Bernstam F, Leitch AM, Boughey JC, Unzeitig G, Buzdar AU, Hunt KK, Mardis ER. Genomic characterisation of HER2-positive breast cancer and response to neoadjuvant trastuzumab and chemotherapy - results from the ACOSOG Z1041 (Alliance) trial. Annals of Oncology. 2017 May 1;28(5):1070-1077. PMID: 28453704
Whyte MP, Griffith M, Trani L, Mumm S, Gottesman GS, McAlister WH, Krysiak K, Lesurf R, Skidmore ZL, Campbell KM, Rosman IS, Bayliss S, Bijanki VN, Nenninger A, Van Tine BA, Griffith OL, Mardis ER. Melorheostosis: Exome sequencing of an associated dermatosis implicates postzygotic mosaicism of mutated KRAS. Bone. 2017 Aug;101:145-155. PMID: 28434888
Paquet ER*, Lesurf R*, Tofigh A, Dumeaux V, Hallett MT. Detecting gene signature activation in breast cancer in an absolute, single-patient manner. Breast Cancer Research. 2017 Mar 21;19(1):32. PMID: 28327201
Griffith M, Spies NC, Krysiak K, McMichael JF, Coffman AC, Danos AM, Ainscough BJ, Ramirez CA, Rieke DT, Kujan L, Barnell EK, Wagner AH, Skidmore ZL, Wollam A, Liu CJ, Jones MR, Bilski RL, Lesurf R, Feng Y, Shah NM, Bonakdar M, Trani L, Matlock M, Ramu A, Campbell KM, Spies GC, Graubert AP, Gangavarapu K, Eldred JM, Larson DE, Walker JR, Good BM, Wu C, Su AI, Dienstmann R, Margolin AA, Tamborero D, Lopez-Bigas N, Jones SJM, Bose R, Spencer DH, Wartman LD, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Griffith OL. CIViC is a community knowledgebase for expert crowdsourcing the clinical interpretation of variants in cancer. Nature Genetics. 2017 Jan 31;49(2):170-174. PMID: 28138153
Lesurf R, Aure MR, Mørk HH, Vitelli V, OSBREAC, Lundgren S, Børresen-Dale AL, Kristensen V, Wärnberg F, Hallett M, Sørlie T. Molecular features of subtype-specific progression from ductal carcinoma in situ to invasive breast cancer. Cell Rep. 2016 Jul 26;16(4):1166-79. PMID: 27396337
Skidmore ZL, Wagner AH, Lesurf R, Campbell KM, Kunisaki J, Griffith OL, Griffith M. GenVisR: Genomic Visualizations in R. Bioinformatics. 2016 Jun 10. pii: btw325. PMID: 27288499
Griffith M, Griffith OL, Krysiak K, Skidmore ZL, Christopher MJ, Klco JM, Ramu A, Lamprecht TL, Wagner AH, Campbell KM, Lesurf R, Hundal J, Zhang J, Spies NC, Ainscough BJ, Larson DE, Heath SE, Fronick C, O'Laughlin S, Fulton R, Magrini V, McGrath S, Smith SM, Miller CA, Maher CA, Payton JE, Walker JR, Eldred JM, Walter MJ, Link DC, Graubert TA, Westervelt P, Kulkarni S, DiPersio JF, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Ley TJ. Comprehensive genomic analysis reveals FLT3 activation and a therapeutic strategy for a patient with relapsed adult B lymphoblastic leukemia. Exp Hematol. 2016 Jul;44(7):603-13. PMID: 27181063
Lesurf R, Cotto KC, Wang G, Griffith M, Kasaian K, Jones SJ, Montgomery SB, Griffith OL; Open Regulatory Annotation Consortium. ORegAnno 3.0: a community-driven resource for curated regulatory annotation. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Jan 4;44(D1):D126-32. PMID: 26578589
Tofigh A, Suderman M, Paquet ER, Livingstone J, Bertos N, Saleh SM, Zhao H, Souleimanova M, Cory S, Lesurf R, Shahalizadeh S, Garcia Lopez N, Riazalhosseini Y, Omeroglu A, Ursini-Siegel J, Park M, Dumeaux V, Hallett M. The prognostic ease and difficulty of invasive breast carcinoma. Cell Rep. 2014 Oct 9;9(1):129-42. PMID: 25284793
Vadnais C, Shooshtarizadeh P, Rajadurai CV, Lesurf R, Hulea L, Davoudi S, Cadieux C, Hallett M, Park M, Nepveu A. Autocrine Activation of the Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway by CUX1 and GLIS1 in Breast Cancers. Biol Open. 2014 Sep 12;3(10):937-46. PMID: 25217618
Wallace JA, Li F, Balakrishnan S, Cantemir-Stone CZ, Pecot T, Martin C, Kladney RD, Sharma SM, Trimboli AJ, Fernandez SA, Yu L, Rosol TJ, Stromberg PC, Lesurf R, Hallett M, Park M, Leone G, Ostrowski MC. Ets2 in tumor fibroblasts promotes angiogenesis in breast cancer. PLoS One. 2013 Aug 16;8(8):e71533. PMID: 23977064
Schade B, Lesurf R, Sanguin-Gendreau V, Bui T, Deblois G, O’Toole SA, Millar EKA, Zardawi SJ, Lopez-Knowles E, Sutherland RL, Giguere V, Kahn M, Hallett M, Muller WJ. β-catenin signaling is a critical event in ErbB2-mediated mammary tumor progression. Cancer Res. 2013 Jul 15;73(14):4474-87. PMID: 23720052
Knight JF*, Lesurf R*, Zhao H, Pinnaduwage D, Davis RR, Saleh SM, Zuo D, Naujokas MA, Chughtai N, Herschkowitz JI, Prat A, Mulligan AM, Muller WJ, Cardiff RD, Gregg JP, Andrulis IL, Hallett MT, Park M. Met synergizes with p53 loss to induce mammary tumors that possess features of claudin-low breast cancer. PNAS. 2013 Apr 2;110(14):E1301-10. PMID: 23509284
Ponzo MG*, Lesurf R*, Petkiewicz S, O'Malley FP, Pinnaduwage D, Andrulis IL, Bull SB, Chughtai N, Zuo D, Souleimanova M, Germain D, Omeroglu A, Cardiff RD, Hallett M, Park M. Met induces mammary tumors with diverse histologies and is associated with poor outcome and human basal breast cancer. PNAS. 2009 Aug 4;106(31):12903-8. PMID: 19617568
Schade B, Rao T, Dourdin N, Lesurf R, Hallett M, Cardiff RD, Muller WJ. PTEN deficiency in a luminal ErbB-2 mouse model results in dramatic acceleration of mammary tumorigenesis and metastasis. J Biol Chem. 2009 Jul 10;284(28):19018-26. PMID: 19435886
Dourdin N, Schade B, Lesurf R, Hallett M, Munn RJ, Cardiff RD, Muller WJ. Phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10 deficiency accelerates tumor induction in a mouse model of ErbB-2 mammary tumorigenesis. Cancer Res. 2008 Apr 1;68(7):2122-31. PMID: 18381417
*Authors contributed equally to the work.