User profiles for M. S. Lawrence

Michael S. Lawrence

Massachusetts General Hospital
Verified email at mgh.harvard.edu
Cited by 199059

The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

…, H Greulich, M Reich, W Winckler, MS Lawrence… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
A powerful way to discover key genes with causal roles in oncogenesis is to identify
genomic regions that undergo frequent alteration in human cancers. Here we present high-…

[PDF][PDF] The immune landscape of cancer

…, J Kim, MS Lawrence, P Lin, S Meier, MS Noble… - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
We performed an extensive immunogenomic analysis of more than 10,000 tumors comprising
33 diverse cancer types by utilizing data compiled by TCGA. Across cancer types, we …

[PDF][PDF] Integrated genomic characterization of papillary thyroid carcinoma

…, M Ladanyi, PH Lai, PW Laird, E Lander, MS Lawrence… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer. Here, we
describe the genomic landscape of 496 PTCs. We observed a low frequency of somatic …

Sensitive detection of somatic point mutations in impure and heterogeneous cancer samples

K Cibulskis, MS Lawrence, SL Carter… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Detection of somatic point substitutions is a key step in characterizing the cancer genome.
However, existing methods typically miss low-allelic-fraction mutations that occur in only a …

[PDF][PDF] Oncogenic signaling pathways in the cancer genome atlas

…, J Kim, MS Lawrence, P Lin, S Meier, MS Noble… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Genetic alterations in signaling pathways that control cell-cycle progression, apoptosis, and
cell growth are common hallmarks of cancer, but the extent, mechanisms, and co-…

[PDF][PDF] The molecular taxonomy of primary prostate cancer

…, PH Lai, PW Laird, ES Lander, M Latour, MS Lawrence… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
There is substantial heterogeneity among primary prostate cancers, evident in the spectrum
of molecular abnormalities and its variable clinical course. As part of The Cancer Genome …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular profiling reveals biologically discrete subsets and pathways of progression in diffuse glioma

…, J Kim, R Kucherlapati, PH Lai, MS Lawrence… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Therapy development for adult diffuse glioma is hindered by incomplete knowledge of somatic
glioma driving alterations and suboptimal disease classification. We defined the complete …

[PDF][PDF] An integrated TCGA pan-cancer clinical data resource to drive high-quality survival outcome analytics

…, J Kim, MS Lawrence, P Lin, S Meier, MS Noble… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
For a decade, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program collected clinicopathologic
annotation data along with multi-platform molecular profiles of more than 11,000 human tumors …

[PDF][PDF] Comprehensive molecular portraits of invasive lobular breast cancer

…, SJM Jones, Z Ju, J Kim, PH Lai, MS Lawrence… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most prevalent histologic subtype of invasive
breast cancer. Here, we comprehensively profiled 817 breast tumors, including 127 ILC, …

[PDF][PDF] Comprehensive characterization of cancer driver genes and mutations

…, DI Heiman, MS Lawrence, P Lin, S Meier, MS Noble… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Identifying molecular cancer drivers is critical for precision oncology. Multiple advanced
algorithms to identify drivers now exist, but systematic attempts to combine and optimize them on …