SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

2019

Cejas P, Drier Y, Dreijerink KMA, Brosens LAA, Deshpande V, Epstein CB, Conemans EB, Morsink FHM, Graham MK, Valk GD, Vriens MR, Castillo CF, Ferrone CR, Adar T, Bowden M, Whitton HJ, Da Silva A, Font-Tello A, Long HW, Gaskell E, Shoresh N, Heaphy CM, Sicinska E, Kulke MH, Chung DC, Bernstein BE, Shivdasani RA. Enhancer signatures stratify and predict outcomes of non-functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Nature Medicine. 2019 Jul 1. doi: 10.1038/s41591-019-0493-4.

Martínez H, Nagurney M, Wang ZX, Eberhart CG, Heaphy CM, Curtis MT, Rodriguez FJ. ATRX Mutations in Pineal Parenchymal Tumors of Intermediate Differentiation. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 2019 May 27. pii: nlz050. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlz050.

Asaka S, Davis C, Lin SF, Wang TL, Heaphy CM, Shih IM. Analysis of Telomere Lengths in p53 Signatures and Incidental Serous Tubal Intraepithelial Carcinomas Without Concurrent Ovarian Cancer. American Journal of Surgical Pathology, 2019 May 17. doi: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000001283.

Amano H, Chaudhury A, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lu L, Akhanov V, Catic A, Popov YV, Verdin E, Johnson H, Stossi F, Sinclair DA, Nakamaru-Ogiso E, Lopez-Berestein G, Chang JT, Neilson JR, Meeker A, Finegold M, Baur JA, Sahin E. Telomere dysfunction induces sirtuin repression that drives telomere-dependent disease. Cell Metabolism, 2019 Mar 20. pii: S1550-4131(19)30129-9.

Trabzonlu L, Kulac I, Zheng Q, Hicks JL, Haffner MC, Nelson WG, Sfanos KS, Ertunc O, Lotan TL, Heaphy CM, Meeker AK, Yegnasubramanian S, De Marzo AM. Molecular Pathology of High-Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia: Challenges and Opportunities. Cold Spring Harbor Perspective in Medicine, 9(4), 2019.

Núñez FJ, Mendez FM, Kadiyala P, Alghamri MS, Savelieff MG, Garcia-Fabiani MB, Haase S, Koschmann C, Calinescu AA, Kamran N, Saxena M, Patel R, Carney S, Guo MZ, Edwards M, Ljungman M, Qin T, Sartor MA, Tagett R, Venneti S, Brosnan-Cashman J, Meeker A, Gorbunova V, Zhao L, Kremer DM, Zhang L, Lyssiotis CA, Jones L, Herting CJ, Ross JL, Hambardzumyan D, Hervey-Jumper S, Figueroa ME, Lowenstein PR, Castro MG. IDH1-R132H acts as a tumor suppressor in glioma via epigenetic up-regulation of the DNA damage response. Science Translational Medicine, 11(479), 2019.

Rodriguez FJ, Brosnan-Cashman JA, Allen SJ, Vizcaino MA, Giannini C, Camelo-Piragua S, Webb M, Matsushita M, Wadhwani N, Tabbarah A, Hamideh D, Jiang L, Chen L, Arvanitis LD, Alnajar HH, Barber JR, Rodríguez-Velasco A, Orr B, Heaphy CM. Alternative lengthening of telomeres, ATRX loss and H3-K27M mutations in histologically defined pilocytic astrocytoma with anaplasia. Brain Pathology, 29:126-140, 2019.

Bell WR, Meeker AK, Rizzo A, Rajpara S, Rosenthal IM, Flores Bellver M, Aparicio Domingo S, Zhong X, Barber JR, Joshu CE, Canto-Soler MV, Eberhart CG, Heaphy CM. A unique telomere DNA expansion phenotype in human retinal rod photoreceptors associated with aging and disease. Brain Pathology, 29:45-52, 2019.

Marrone MT, Joshu CE, Peskoe SB, De Marzo AM, Heaphy CM, Lupold SE, Meeker AK, Platz EA. Adding the Team into T1 Translational Research: A Case Study of Multidisciplinary Team Science in the Evaluation of Biomarkers of Prostate Cancer Risk and Prognosis. Clinical Chemistry, 65:189-198, 2019.

Krueger TE, Thorek DLJ, Meeker AK, Isaacs JT, Brennen WN. Tumor-infiltrating mesenchymal stem cells: Drivers of the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in prostate cancer? The Prostate, 79:320-330, 2019.

2018

Gallia GL, Zhang M, Ning Y, Haffner MC, Batista D, Binder ZA, Bishop JA, Hann CL, Hruban RH, Ishii M, Klein AP, Reh DD, Rooper LM, Salmasi V, Tamargo RJ, Wang Q, Williamson T, Zhao T, Zou Y, Meeker AK, Agrawal N, Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, Papadopoulos N, Bettegowda C. Genomic analysis identifies frequent deletions of Dystrophin in olfactory neuroblastoma. Nature Communications, 9:5410, 2018.

Zarif JC, Baena-Del Valle JA, Hicks JL, Heaphy CM, Vidal I, Luo J, Lotan TL, Hooper JE, Isaacs WB, Pienta KJ, De Marzo AM. Mannose Receptor positive macrophage infiltrate correlates with prostate cancer onset and metastatic castrate-resistant disease. European Urology Oncology. 2018 Oct 19. doi: 10.1016/j.euo.2018.09.014.

Pea A, Yu J, Marchionni L, Noe M, Luchini C, Pulvirenti A, de Wilde RF, Brosens LA, Rezaee N, Javed A, Gobbo S, Regi P, Salvia R, Bassi C, He J, Weiss MJ, Cameron JL, Offerhaus GJA, Hruban RH, Lawlor RT, Scarpa A, Heaphy CM, Wood LD, Wolfgang CL. Genetic Analysis of Small Well-differentiated Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Identifies Subgroups With Differing Risks of Liver Metastases. Annals of Surgery. 2018 Oct 17. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003022.

Brosnan-Cashman JA, Graham MK, Heaphy CM. Genetic alterations associated with ALTered telomeres. Oncotarget, 9:33739-33740, 2018.

Brosnan-Cashman JA, Yuan M, Graham MK, Rizzo AJ, Myers KM, Davis C, Zhang R, Esopi DM, Raabe EH, Eberhart CG, Heaphy CM, Meeker AK. ATRX loss induces multiple hallmarks of the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) phenotype in human glioma cell lines in a cell line-specific manner. PLoS One, 13:e0204159, 2018.

Graham MK, Park BH, Wyhs N. Personalized postdoctoral fellowship care. Nature Biotechnology, 36:900-902, 2018.

Kwon JH, Kim HJ, Park DH, Lee YJ, Heaphy CM, Klöppel G, Hruban RH, Hong SM. Incidentally detected pancreatic neuroendocrine microadenoma with lymph node metastasis. Virchows Archiv, 473:649-653, 2018.

Demicco EG, Wani K, Ingram D, Wagner M, Maki RG, Rizzo A, Meeker A, Lazar AJ, Wang WL. TERT Promoter Mutations in Solitary Fibrous Tumor. Histopathology, 73:843-851, 2018.

Boudadi K, Suzman DL, Anagnostou V, Fu W, Luber B, Wang H, Niknafs N, White JR, Silberstein JL, Sullivan R, Dowling D, Harb R, Nirschl TR, Veeneman BA, Tomlins SA, Wang Y, Jendrisak A, Graf RP, Dittamore R, Carducci MA, Eisenberger MA, Haffner MC, Meeker AK, Eshleman JR, Luo J, Velculescu VE, Drake CG, Antonarakis ES. Ipilimumab plus nivolumab and DNA-repair defects in AR-V7-expressing metastatic prostate cancer. Oncotarget, 9:28561-28571, 2018.

Weber KA, Heaphy CM, Joshu CE, Lu J, Rohrmann S, Bienstock JL, Agurs-Collins T, Meeker AK, Platz EA. Racial differences in maternal and umbilical cord blood leukocyte telomere length and their correlations. Cancer Causes & Control, 29:759-767, 2018.

Palsgrove DN, Brosnan-Cashman JA, Giannini C, Raghunathan A, Jentoft M, Bettegowda C, Gokden M, Lin D, Yuan M, Lin MT, Heaphy CM, Rodriguez FJ. Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma-like astrocytoma: a neoplasm with a distinct phenotype and frequent neurofibromatosis type-1-association. Modern Pathology, 31:1787-1800, 2018.

Tran PT, Meeker AK, Platz EA. Association between statin drug use and peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2002: a cross-sectional study. Annals of Epidemiology, 28:529-534, 2018.

Diplas BH, He X, Brosnan-Cashman JA, Liu H, Chen LH, Wang Z, Moure CJ, Killela PJ, Loriaux DB, Lipp ES, Greer PK, Yang R, Rizzo AJ, Rodriguez FJ, Friedman AH, Friedman HS, Wang S, He Y, McLendon RE, Bigner DD, Jiao Y, Waitkus MS, Meeker AK, Yan H. The genomic landscape of TERT promoter wildtype-IDH wildtype glioblastoma. Nature Communications, 9:2087, 2018.

Meeker AK. Cancer telomeres and white crows. American Journal of Clinical and Experimental Urology, 6:93-100, 2018.

Lai S, Heaphy CM, Rizzo AJ, Celentano DD, Gerstenblith G, Li J, Moore RD, Treisman G, Chen S, Foster P, Kickler T, Lai H. Cocaine use may induce telomere shortening in individuals with HIV infection. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 84:11-17, 2018.

Joshu CE, Peskoe SB, Heaphy CM, Kenfield SA, Mucci LA, Giovannucci EL, Stampfer MJ, Yoon G, Lee TK, Hicks JL, De Marzo AM, Meeker AK, Platz EA. Current or recent smoking is associated with more variable telomere length in prostate stromal cells and prostate cancer cells. The Prostate, 78:333-38, 2018.

Baena-Del Valle JA, Zheng Q, Esopi DM, Rubenstein M, Hubbard GK, Moncaliano MC, Hruszkewycz A, Vaghasia A, Yegnasubramanian S, Wheelan SJ, Meeker AK, Heaphy CM, Graham MK, De Marzo AM. MYC drives overexpression of telomerase RNA (hTR/TERC) in prostate cancer. The Journal of Pathology, 244:11-24, 2018.

2017

Muroyama Y, Nirschl TR, Kochel CM, Lopez-Bujanda Z, Theodros D, Mao W, Carrera-Haro MA, Ghasemzadeh A, Marciscano AE, Velarde E, Tam AJ, Thoburn CJ, Uddin M, Meeker AK, Anders RA, Pardoll DM, Drake CG. Stereotactic radiotherapy increases functionally suppressive regulatory T cells in the tumor microenvironment. Cancer Immunology Research, 5:992-1004, 2017.

Sharifi-Sanjani M, Meeker AK, Mourkioti F. Evaluation of telomere length in human cardiac tissues using cardiac quantitative FISH. Nature Protocols, 12:1855-1870, 2017.

Thompson ED, Taube JM, Asch-Kendrick RJ, Ogurtsova A, Xu H, Sharma R, Meeker A, Argani P, Emens LA, Cimino-Mathews A. PD-L1 expression and the immune microenvironment in primary invasive lobular carcinomas of the breast. Modern Pathology, 30:1551-1560, 2017.

Graham MK, Meeker A. Telomeres and telomerase in prostate cancer development and therapy. Nature Reviews Urology, 14:607-619, 2017.

Brennen WN, Zhang B, Kulac I, Kisteman LN, Antony L, Wang H, Meeker AK, De Marzo AM, Garraway IP, Denmeade SR, Isaacs JT. Mesenchymal stem cell infiltration during neoplastic transformation of the human prostate. Oncotarget, 8:46710-46727, 2017.

VandenBussche CJ, Allison DB, Graham MK, Charu V, Lennon AM, Wolfgang CL, Hruban RH, Heaphy CM. Alternative lengthening of telomeres and ATRX/DAXX loss can be reliably detected in FNAs of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Cancer Cytopathology, 125:544-551, 2017.

Kim JY, Brosnan-Cashman JA, An S, Kim SJ, Song KB, Kim MS, Kim MJ, Hwang DW, Meeker AK, Yu E, Kim SC, Hruban RH, Heaphy CM, Hong SM. Alternative lengthening of telomeres in primary pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms is associated with aggressive clinical behavior and poor survival. Clinical Cancer Research, 23:1598-1606, 2017.

Graham MK, Principessa L, Antony L, Meeker AK, Isaacs JT. Low p16INK4a Expression in Early Passage Human Prostate Basal Epithelial Cells Enables Immortalization by Telomerase Expression Alone. The Prostate, 77:374-384, 2017.

Koschmann C, Nunez FJ, Mendez F, Brosnan-Cashman JA, Meeker AK, Lowenstein PR, Castro MG. Mutated Chromatin Regulatory Factors as Tumor Drivers in Cancer. Cancer Research, 77:227-233, 2017.

Peskoe SB, Barber JR, Zheng Q, Meeker AK, De Marzo AM, Platz EA, Lupold SE. Differential long-term stability of microRNAs and RNU6B snRNA in 12-20 year old archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded specimens. BMC Cancer, 17:32, 2017.

Holdhoff M, Guner G, Rodriguez FJ, Hicks J, Zheng Q, Forman MS, Ye X, Grossman SA, Meeker AK, Heaphy CM, Eberhart CG, De Marzo AM, Arav-Boger R. Absence of cytomegalovirus in glioblastoma and other high-grade gliomas by real-time PCR, immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. Clinical Cancer Research, 23:3150-7, 2017.

2016

Rodriguez FJ, Vizcaino MA, Blakeley J, Heaphy CM. Frequent alternative lengthening of telomeres and ATRX loss in adult NF1-associated diffuse and high-grade astrocytomas. Acta Neuropathologica, 132:761-3, 2016.

Weber KA, Heaphy CM, Rohrmann S, Gonzalez B, Bienstock JL, Agurs-Collins T, Platz EA, Meeker AK. Influence of In Utero Maternal and Neonate Factors on Cord Blood Leukocyte Telomere Length: Clues to the Racial Disparity in Prostate Cancer? Prostate Cancer, 2016:3691650, 2016.

Cives M, Ghayouri M, Morse B, Brelsford M, Black M, Rizzo A, Meeker A, Strosberg J. Analysis of potential response predictors to capecitabine/temozolomide in metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Endocrine-Related Cancer, 23:759-67, 2016.

Hackeng WM, Brosens LA, Poruk KE, Noë M, Hosoda W, Poling JS, Rizzo A, Campbell-Thompson M, Atkinson MA, Konukiewitz B, Klöppel G, Heaphy CM, Meeker AK, Wood LD. Aberrant Menin expression is an early event in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumorigenesis. Human Pathology, 56:93-100, 2016.

Shekhani MT, Barber JR, Bezerra SM, Heaphy CM, Roibon ND, Taheri D, Reis LO, Guner G, Joshu CE, Netto GJ, Meeker AK. High-resolution telomere fluorescence in situ hybridization reveals intriguing anomalies in germ cell tumors. Human Pathology, 54:106-12, 2016.

Suryo Rahmanto Y, Jung JG, Wu RC, Kobayashi Y, Heaphy CM, Meeker AK, Wang TL, Shih IM. Inactivating ARID1A Tumor Suppressor Enhances TERT Transcription and Maintains Telomere Length in Cancer Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291:9690-9, 2016.

Koschmann C, Calinescu AA, Nunez FJ, Mackay A, Fazal-Salom J, Thomas D, Mendez F, Kamran N, Dzaman M, Mulpuri L, Krasinkiewicz J, Doherty R, Lemons R, Brosnan-Cashman JA, Li Y, Roh S, Zhao L, Appelman H, Ferguson D, Gorbunova V, Meeker A, Jones C, Lowenstein PR, Castro MG. ATRX loss promotes tumor growth and impairs nonhomologous end joining DNA repair in glioma. Science Translational Medicine, 8:328ra28, 2016.

2015

Bodelon C, Heaphy CM, Meeker AK, Geller B, Vacek PM, Weaver DL, Chicoine RE, Shepherd JA, Mahmoudzadeh AP, Patel DA, Brinton LA, Sherman ME, Gierach GL. Leukocyte telomere length and its association with mammographic density and proliferative diagnosis among women undergoing diagnostic image-guided breast biopsy. BMC Cancer, 15:823, 2015.

Heaphy CM, Asch-Kendrick R, Argani P, Meeker AK, Cimino-Mathews A. Telomere length alterations unique to invasive lobular carcinoma. Human Pathology, 46:1197-203, 2015.

Cesare AJ, Heaphy CM, O’Sullivan RJ. Visualization of Telomere Integrity and Function In Vitro and In Vivo Using Immunofluorescence Techniques. Current Protocols in Cytometry, 73:12.40.1-12.40.31, 2015.

Joshu CE, Peskoe SB, Heaphy CM, Kenfield SA, Van Blarigan EL, Mucci LA, Giovannucci EL, Stampfer MJ, Yun G, Lee TK, Hicks JL, De Marzo AM, Meeker AK, Platz EA. Pre-diagnostic obesity and physical inactivity are associated with shorter telomere length in prostate stromal cells. Cancer Prevention Research, 8:737-42, 2015.

Heaphy CM, Gaonkar G, Peskoe SB, Joshu CE, De Marzo AM, Lucia MS, Goodman PJ, Lippman SM, Thompson IM Jr, Platz EA, Meeker AK. Prostate stromal cell telomere shortening is associated with risk of prostate cancer in the placebo arm of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial. The Prostate, 75:1160-6, 2015.

Ferguson LR, Chen H, Collins AR, Connell M, Damia G, Dasgupta S, Malhotra M, Meeker AK, Amedei A, Amin A, Ashraf SS, Aquilano K, Azmi AS, Bhakta D, Bilsland A, Boosani CS, Chen S, Ciriolo MR, Fujii H, Guha G, Halicka D, Helferich WG, Keith WN, Mohammed SI, Niccolai E, Yang X, Honoki K, Parslow VR, Prakash S, Rezazadeh S, Shackelford RE, Sidransky D, Tran PT, Yang ES, Maxwell CA. Genomic instability in human cancer: Molecular insights and opportunities for therapeutic attack and prevention through diet and nutrition. Seminars in Cancer Biology, 35:Suppl:S5-S24, 2015.

Julin B, Shui I, Heaphy CM, Joshu CE, Meeker AK, Giovannucci E, De Vivo I, Platz EA. Circulating leukocyte telomere length and risk of overall and aggressive prostate cancer. British Journal of Cancer, 112:769-76, 2015.

Borodovsky A, Meeker AK, Kirkness EF, Zhao Q, Eberhart CG, Gallia GL, Riggins GJ. A model of a patient-derived IDH1 mutant anaplastic astrocytoma with alternative lengthening of telomeres. Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 121:479-87, 2015.

2014

Dogeas E, Karagkounis G, Heaphy CM, Hirose K, Pawlik TM, Wolfgang CL, Meeker AK, Hruban RH, Cameron JL, Choti MA. Alternative lengthening of telomeres predicts site of origin in neuroendocrine tumor liver metastases. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 218:628-35, 2014.

Capdevila J, Meeker A, García-Carbonero R, Pietras K, Astudillo A, Casanovas O, Scarpa A. Molecular biology of neuroendocrine tumors: from pathways to biomarkers and targets. Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 33:345-51, 2014.

Hurwitz LM, Heaphy CM, Joshu CE, Isaacs WB, Konishi Y, De Marzo AM, Isaacs SD, Wiley KE, Platz EZ, Meeker AK. Telomere length as a risk factor for hereditary prostate cancer. The Prostate, 74:359-64, 2014.

Meeker AK, Heaphy CM. Gastroenteropancreatic endocrine tumors. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 386:101-20, 2014.

Zhang Y, Calado R, Rao M, Hong JA, Meeker AK, Dumitriu B, Atay S, McCormick PJ, Garfield SH, Wangsa D, Padilla-Nash HM, Burkett S, Zhang M, Kunst TF, Peterson NR, Xi S, Inchauste S, Altorki NK, Casson AG, Beer DG, Harris CC, Ried T, Young NS, Schrump DS. Telomerase variant A279T induces telomere dysfunction and inhibits non-canonical telomerase activity in esophageal carcinomas. PLoS One, 9:e101010, 2014.

2013

Wood LD, Heaphy CM, Daniel HJ, Naini BV, Lassman CR, Arroyo MR, Kamel IR, Cosgrove D, Boitnott J, Meeker AK, Torbenson M. Chromophobe hepatocellular carcinoma with abrupt anaplasia: a proposal for a new subtype of hepatocellular carcinoma with unique morphologic and molecular features. Modern Pathology, 26:1586-93, 2013.

Haffner MC, Mosbruger T, Esopi DM, Fedor H, Heaphy CM, Walker DA, Adejola N, Gurel M, Hicks J, Meeker AK, Halushka MK, Simons JW, Isaacs WB, De Marzo AM, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S. Tracking the clonal origin of lethal prostate cancer. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 123:4918-22, 2013.

Killela PJ, Reitman ZJ, Jiao Y, Bettegowda C, Agrawal N, Diaz LA Jr, Friedman AH, Friedman H, Gallia GL, Giovanella BC, Grollman AP, He TC, He Y, Hruban RH, Jallo GI, Mandahl N, Meeker AK, Mertens F, Netto GJ, Rasheed BA, Riggins GJ, Rosenquist TA, Schiffman M, Shih IeM, Theodorescu D, Torbenson MS, Velculescu VE, Wang TL, Wentzensen N, Wood LD, Zhang M, McLendon RE, Bigner DD, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B, Papadopoulos N, Yan H. TERT promoter mutations occur frequently in gliomas and a subset of tumors derived from cells with low rates of self-renewal. PNAS, 110:6021-6, 2013

Heaphy CM, Yoon GS, Peskoe SB, Joshu CE, Lee TK, Giovannucci E, Mucci LA, Kenfield SA, Stampfer MJ, Hicks JL, De Marzo AM, Platz EA, Meeker AK. Prostate cancer cell telomere length variability and stromal cell telomere length as prognostic markers for metastasis and death. Cancer Discovery, 3:1130-41, 2013.

Heaphy CM, Schreck KC, Raabe E, Mao X, Chu Q, An P, Poh W, Jiao Y, Rodriguez FJ, Odia Y, Meeker AK, Eberhart CG. A glioblastoma neurosphere line with alternative lengthening of telomeres. Acta Neuropathologica, 126:607-8, 2013.

Mourkioti F, Kustan J, Kraft P, Day JW, Zhao MM, Kost-Alimova M, Protopopov A, DePinho RA, Bernstein D, Meeker AK, Blau HM. Role of telomere dysfunction in cardiac failure in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Nature Cell Biology, 15:895-904, 2013.

Nguyen DN, Heaphy CM, de Wilde RF, Orr B, Odia Y, Eberhart CG, Meeker AK, Rodriguez FJ. Molecular and morphologic correlates of the alternative lengthening of telomere phenotype in high grade astrocytomas. Brain Pathology, 23:237-43, 2013.

2012

Lovejoy CA, Li W, Reisenweber S, Thongthip S, Bruno J, de Lange T, De S, Petrini JH, Sung PA, Jasin M, Rosenbluh J, Zwang Y, Weir BA, Hatton C, Ivanova E, Macconaill L, Hanna M, Hahn WC, Lue NF, Reddel RR, Jiao Y, Kinzler K, Vogelstein B, Papadopoulos N, Meeker AK; ALT Starr Cancer Consortium. Loss of ATRX, genome instability, and an altered DNA damage response are hallmarks of the alternative lengthening of telomeres pathway. PLoS Genetics, 8:e1002772, 2012.

Jiao Y,Killela PJ, Reitman ZJ, Rasheed BA, Heaphy CM, de Wilde RF, Rodriguez FJ, Rosemberg S, Obashinjo SM, Nagahashi Marie SK, Bettegowda C, Agrawal N, Lipp E, Pirozzi C, Lopez G, He Y, Friedman H, Friedman AH, Riggins GJ, Holdhoff M, Burger P, McLendon R, Bigner DD, Vogelstein B, Meeker AK, Kinzler KW, Papadopoulos N, Diaz Jr. LA, Yan H. Frequent ATRX, CIC, and FUBP1 mutations refine the classification of malignant gliomas. Oncotarget, 3:709-22, 2012.

De Wilde RF, Heaphy CM, Maitra A, Meeker AK, Edil BH, Wolfgang CL, Ellison T, Schulick RD, Molenaar IQ, Valk GD, Vriens MR, Borel Rinkes IHM, Offerhaus GJA, Hruban RH, Matsukuma KE. Loss of ATRX or DAXX expression and concomitant acquisition of the alternative lengthening of telomeres phenotype are late events in a small subset of MEN-1 syndrome pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Modern Pathology, 25:1033-9, 2012.

Zhou X, Meeker AK, Makambi KH, Kosti O, Kallakury BV, Sidawy MK, Loffredo CA, Zheng YL. Telomere length variation in normal epithelial cells adjacent to tumor: potential biomarker for breast cancer local recurrence. Carcinogenesis, 33:113-8, 2012.

2011

Konishi H, Mohseni M, Tamaki A, Garay JP, Croessmann S, Karnan S, Ota A, Wong HY, Konishi Y, Karakas B, Tahir K, Abukhdeir AM, Gustin JP, Cidado J, Wang GM, Cosgrove D, Cochran R, Jelovac D, Higgins MJ, Arena S, Hawkins L, Lauring J, Gross AL, Heaphy CM, Hosokawa Y, Gabrielson E, Meeker AK, Visvanathan K, Argani P, Bachman KE, Park BH. Mutation of a single allele of the cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 leads to genomic instability in human breast epithelial cells. PNAS, 108:17773-8, 2011.

Heaphy CM, Subhawong AP, Hong SM, Goggins MG, Montgomery EA, Gabrielson E, Netto GJ, Epstein JI, Lotan TL, Westra WH, Shih IM, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Maitra A, Li QK, Eberhart CG, Taube JM, Rakheja D, Kurman RJ, Wu T, Roden RB, Argani P, De Marzo AM, Terracciano L, Torbenson M, Meeker AK. Prevalence of the Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) telomere maintenance mechanism in human cancer subtypes. The American Journal of Pathology, 179:1608-15, 2011.

Wang Y, Meeker AK, Kowalski J, Tsai HL, Somervell H, Heaphy CM, Sangenario LE, Prasad N, Westra WH, Zeiger MA, Umbricht CB. Telomere length is related to alternative splice patterns of telomerase in thyroid tumors. The American Journal of Pathology, 179:1415-24, 2011.

Heaphy CM, de Wilde RF, Jiao Y, Klein AP, Edil BH, Shi C, Bettegowda C, Rodriguez FJ, Eberhart CG, Hebbar S, Offerhaus GJ, McLendon R, Rasheed BA, He Y, Yan H, Bigner DD, Oba-Shinjo SM, Nagahashi Marie SK, Riggins GJ, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B, Hruban RH, Maitra A, Papadopoulos N, Meeker AK. Altered telomeres in tumors with ATRX and DAXX mutations. Science, 333:425, 2011.

Heaphy CM, Meeker AK. The potential utility of telomere-related markers for cancer diagnosis. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 15:1227-38, 2011.

Heaphy CM, Subhawong AP, Gross A, Konishi Y, Kouprina N, Argani P, Visvanathan K, Meeker AK. Shorter telomeres in luminal B, HER-2 and triple-negative breast cancer subtypes. Modern Pathology, 24:194-200, 2011.

Kuhn E, Meeker AK, Visvanathan K, Gross AL, Wang TL, Kurman RJ, Shih IeM. Telomere length in different histologic types of ovarian carcinoma with emphasis on clear cell carcinoma. Modern Pathology, 24:1139-45, 2011.

Hong SM, Heaphy CM, Shi C, Eo SH, Cho HJ, Meeker AK, Eshleman JR, Hruban RH, Goggins M. Telomeres are shortened in acinar-to-ductal metaplasias associated with pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia but not in isolated acinar-to-ductal metaplasias. Modern Pathology, 24:256-66, 2011.

2010

Haffner MC, Aryee MJ, Toubaji A, Esopi DM, Albadine R, Gurel B, Isaacs WB, Bova GS, Liu W, Xu J, Meeker AK, Netto G, De Marzo AM, Nelson WG, Yegnasubramanian S. Androgen-induced TOP2B-mediated double-strand breaks and prostate cancer gene rearrangements. Nature Genetics, 42:668-75, 2010.

Kuhn E, Meeker A, Wang TL, Sehdev AS, Kurman RJ, Shih IeM. Shortened telomeres in serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma: an early event in ovarian high-grade serous carcinogenesis. American Journal of Surgical Pathology, 34:829-36, 2010.

Hector A, Montgomery EA, Karikari C, Canto M, Dunbar KB, Wang JS, Feldmann G, Hong SM, Haffner MC, Meeker AK, Holland SJ, Yu J, Heckrodt TJ, Zhang J, Ding P, Goff D, Singh R, Roa JC, Marimuthu A, Riggins GJ, Eshleman JR, Nelkin BD, Pandey A, Maitra A. The Axl receptor tyrosine kinase is an adverse prognostic factor and a therapeutic target in esophageal adenocarcinoma. Cancer Biology & Therapy, 10:1009-18, 2010.

2009

Vander Griend DJ, Konishi Y, De Marzo AM, Isaacs JT, Meeker AK. Dual-label centromere and telomere FISH identifies human, rat, and mouse cell contribution to multispecies recombinant urogenital sinus xenografts. The Prostate, 69:1557-64, 2009.

Koorstra JB, Hong SM, Shi C, Meeker AK, Ryu JK, Offerhaus GJ, Goggins MG, Hruban RH, Maitra A. Widespread activation of the DNA damage response in human pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia. Modern Pathology, 22:1439-45, 2009.

Subhawong AP, Heaphy CM, Argani P, Konishi Y, Kouprina N, Nassar H, Vang R, Meeker AK. The alternative lengthening of telomeres phenotype in breast carcinoma is associated with HER-2 overexpression. Modern Pathology, 22:1423-31, 2009.