We have published widely in areas of cancer genomics, germline genetics, bioinformatics, genome technology development, and data sharing.
A complete list can be accessed here and our most recent and significant publications are listed below with Pugh lab members bolded:
2022
Das A, Sudhaman S, Morgenstern D, Coblentz A, Chung J, Stone SC, Alsafwani N, Liu ZA, Karsaneh OAA, Soleimani S, Ladany H, Chen D, Zatzman M, Cabric V, Nobre L, Bianchi V, Edwards M, Sambira Nahum LC, Ercan AB, Nabbi A, Constantini S, Dvir R, Yalon-Oren M, Campino GA, Caspi S, Larouche V, Reddy A, Osborn M, Mason G, Lindhorst S, Bronsema A, Magimairajan V, Opocher E, De Mola RL, Sabel M, Frojd C, Sumerauer D, Samuel D, Cole K, Chiaravalli S, Massimino M, Tomboc P, Ziegler DS, George B, Van Damme A, Hijiya N, Gass D, McGee RB, Mordechai O, Bowers DC, Laetsch TW, Lossos A, Blumenthal DT, Sarosiek T, Yen LY, Knipstein J, Bendel A, Hoffman LM, Luna-Fineman S, Zimmermann S, Scheers I, Nichols KE, Zapotocky M, Hansford JR, Maris JM, Dirks P, Taylor MD, Kulkarni AV, Shroff M, Tsang DS, Villani A, Xu W, Aronson M, Durno C, Shlien A, Malkin D, Getz G, Maruvka YE, Ohashi PS, Hawkins C, Pugh TJ, Bouffet E, Tabori U.
Nat Med. 2022 Jan;28(1):125-135. doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01581-6. Epub 2022 Jan 6. PMID: 34992263.
Kim SR, Tone A, Kim R, Cesari M, Clarke B, Hart T, Aronson M, Holter S, Lytwyn A, Maganti M, Oldfield L, Gallinger S, Bernardini MQ, Oza AM, Djordjevic B, Lerner-Ellis J, Van de Laar E, Vicus D, Pugh TJ, Pollett A, Ferguson SE, Eiriksson L.
Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2022 Jan 10:ijgc-2021-003082. doi: 10.1136/ijgc-2021-003082. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35012974.
Hezaveh K, Shinde RS, Klötgen A, Halaby MJ, Lamorte S, Ciudad MT, Quevedo R, Neufeld L, Liu ZQ, Jin R, Grünwald BT, Foerster EG, Chaharlangi D, Guo M, Makhijani P, Zhang X, Pugh TJ, Pinto DM, Co IL, McGuigan AP, Jang GH, Khokha R, Ohashi PS, O’Kane GM, Gallinger S, Navarre WW, Maughan H, Philpott DJ, Brooks DG, McGaha TL.
Immunity. 2022 Feb 8;55(2):324-340.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2022.01.006. PMID: 35139353.
4. All is not lost: learning from 9p21 loss in cancer
Spiliopoulou P, Yang SYC, Bruce JP, Wang BX, Berman HK, Pugh TJ, Siu LL.
Trends Immunol. 2022 Apr 1:S1471-4906(22)00052-7. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2022.03.003. PMID: 35379580.
Shickh S, Oldfield LE, Clausen M, Mighton C, Sebastian A, Calvo A, Baxter NN, Dawson L, Penney LS, Foulkes W, Basik M, Sun S, Schrader KA, Regier DA, Karsan A, Pollett A, Pugh TJ, Kim RH, Bombard Y; CHARM Consortium.
Oncologist. 2022 Apr 6:oyac039. doi: 10.1093/oncolo/oyac039. PMID: 35385106.
2021
1. Coenzyme A fuels T cell anti-tumor immunity
St Paul M, Saibil SD, Han S, Israni-Winger K, Lien SC, Laister RC, Sayad A, Penny S, Amaria RN, Haydu LE, Garcia-Batres CR, Kates M, Mulder DT, Robert-Tissot C, Gold MJ, Tran CW, Elford AR, Nguyen LT, Pugh TJ, Pinto DM, Wargo JA, Ohashi PS.
Cell Metab. 2021 Dec 7;33(12):2415-2427.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2021.11.010. PMID: 34879240.
Fierheller CT, Guitton-Sert L, Alenezi WM, Revil T, Oros KK, Gao Y, Bedard K, Arcand SL, Serruya C, Behl S, Meunier L, Fleury H, Fewings E, Subramanian DN, Nadaf J, Bruce JP, Bell R, Provencher D, Foulkes WD, El Haffaf Z, Mes-Masson AM, Majewski J, Pugh TJ, Tischkowitz M, James PA, Campbell IG, Greenwood CMT, Ragoussis J, Masson JY, Tonin PN.
Genome Med. 2021 Dec 3;13(1):186. doi: 10.1186/s13073-021-00998-5. PMID: 34861889
Croucher DC, Richards LM, Tsofack SP, Waller D, Li Z, Wei E, Huang XF, Chesi M, Bergsagel PL, Sebag M, Pugh TJ+, Trudel S+
Nature Communications. 2021 Nov; 12(6322). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26598-w (SRA)
4. Dual role of allele-specific DNA hypermethylation within the TERT promoter in cancer.
Lee DD, Komosa M, Sudhaman S, Leao R, Zhang CH, Apolonio JD, Hermanns T, Wild PJ, Klocker H, Nassiri F, Zadeh G, Diplas BH, Yan H, Gallinger S, Pugh TJ, Ramaswamy V, Taylor MD, Castelo-Branco P, Nunes NM, Tabori U.
J Clin Invest. 2021 Nov;131(21):e146915. doi.org/10.1172/JCI146915. PMID: 34720085 (CA)
Oliva M, Chepeha D, Araujo DV, Diaz-Mejia JJ, Olson P, Prawira A, Spreafico A, Bratman SV, Shek T, de Almeida J, R Hansen A, Hope A, Goldstein D, Weinreb I, Smith S, Perez-Ordoñez B, Irish J, Torti D, Bruce JP, Wang BX, Fortuna A, Pugh TJ, Der-Torossian H, Shazer R, Attanasio N, Au Q, Tin A, Feeney J, Sethi H, Aleshin A, Chen I, Siu L.
J Immunother Cancer. 2021 Oct;9(10):e003476. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2021-003476. PMID: 34599023 (CA)
6. HPV Sequencing Facilitates Ultrasensitive Detection of HPV Circulating Tumor DNA.
Leung E, Han K, Zou J, Zhao Z, Zheng Y, Wang TT, Rostami A, Siu LL, Pugh TJ, Bratman SV.
Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Sep 27. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-2384. PMID: 34580115 (CA)
El Ghamrasni S, Quevedo R, Hawley J, Mazrooei P, Hanna Y, Cirlan I, Zhu H, Bruce JP, Oldfield LE, Yang SYC, Guilhamon P, Reimand J, Cescon DW, Done SJ, Lupien M, Pugh TJ.
Mol Cancer Res. 2021 Sep 23. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-21-0471. PMID: 34556523 (SRA)
Kim SR, Tone A, Kim RH, Cesari M, Clarke BA, Eiriksson L, Hart TL, Aronson M, Holter S, Lytwyn A, Maganti M, Oldfield L, Gallinger S, Bernardini MQ, Oza AM, Djordjevic B, Lerner-Ellis J, Van de Laar E, Vicus D, Pugh TJ, Pollett A, Ferguson SE.
Cancer. 2021 May 13;. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33625. PMID: 33983630. (CA)
SYC Yang, Lien SC, Wang B, Clouthier DL, Hanna Y, Cirlan I, Zhu K, Bruce JP, El Ghamrasni S, Iafolla MAJ, Oliva M, Hansen AR, Spreafico A, Bedard PL, Lheureux S, Razak ARA, Speers V, Hal K Berman HK, Haibe-Kains B, Brooks DG, McGaha T, Butler M, Bratman SV, Ohashi PS, Siu LL+, Pugh TJ+.
Nat Commun. 2021 Aug 26;12(1):5137. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25432-7. PMID: 34446728 (SRA)
Bruce JP, To KF, Lui VWY, Chung GTY, Chan YY, Tsang CM, Yip KY, Ma BBY, Woo JKS, Hui EP, Mak MKF, Lee SD, Chow C, Velapasamy S, Or YYY, Siu PK, El Ghamrasni S, Prokopec S, Wu M, Kwan JSH, Liu Y, Chan JYK, van Hasselt CA, Young LS, Dawson CW, Paterson IC, Yap LF, Tsao SW, Liu FF, Chan ATC, Pugh TJ+, Lo KW+.
Nat Commun. 2021 Jul 7;12(1):4193. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24348-6. PMID: 34234122. (SRA)
11. Mutations in the RAS/MAPK Pathway Drive Replication Repair-Deficient Hypermutated Tumors and Confer Sensitivity to MEK Inhibition.
Campbell BB, Galati MA, Stone SC, Riemenschneider AN, Edwards M, Sudhaman S, Siddaway R, Komosa M, Nunes NM, Nobre L, Morrissy AS, Zatzman M, Zapotocky M, Joksimovic L, Kalimuthu SN, Samuel D, Mason G, Bouffet E, Morgenstern DA, Aronson M, Durno C, Malkin D, Maris JM, Taylor MD, Shlien A, Pugh TJ, Ohashi PS, Hawkins CE, Tabori U.
Cancer Discov. 2021 Jun;11(6):1454-1467. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-20-1050. PMID: 33563663. (CA)
Kim SR, Tone A, Kim RH, Cesari M, Clarke BA, Eiriksson L, Hart T, Aronson M, Holter S, Lytwyn A, Lajkosz K, Oldfield L, Gallinger S, Bernardini MQ, Oza AM, Djordjevic B, Lerner-Ellis J, Van de Laar E, Vicus D, Pugh T, Pollett A, Ferguson SE.
Gynecol Oncol. 2021 Apr;161(1):221-227. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2021.01.002. PMID: 33478752. (CA)
13. The DEAD-box helicase DDX56 is a conserved stemness regulator in normal and cancer stem cells
Pryszlak M, Wiggans M, Chen X, Jaramillo JE, Burns S, Richards L, Pugh TJ, Kaplan DR, Huang X, Dirks PB Pearson BJ.
Cell Reports. 2021 Mar 30;34(13):108903. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108903. PMID: 33789112. (CA)
Leukemia. 2021 Mar;35(3):796-808. doi: 10.1038/s41375-020-0962-2. PMID: 32665698; PMCID: PMC7359767. (CA)
Kwan JY, Dr. Lin LT, Bell R, Bruce JP, Richardson C, Pugh TJ, Liu FF
Sci Rep. 2021 Feb 25;11(1):4533. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-83366-y. (CA)
16. PRMT5 inhibition disrupts splicing and stemness in glioblastoma.
Sachamitr P, Ho JC, Ciamponi FE, Ba-Alawi W, Coutinho FJ, Guilhamon P, Kushida MM, Cavalli FMG, Lee L, Rastegar N, Vu V, Sánchez-Osuna M, Coulombe-Huntington J, Kanshin E, Whetstone H, Durand M, Thibault P, Hart K, Mangos M, Veyhl J, Chen W, Tran N, Duong BC, Aman AM, Che X, Lan X, Whitley O, Zaslaver O, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Richards LM, Restall I, Caudy A, Röst HL, Bonday ZQ, Bernstein M, Das S, Cusimano MD, Spears J, Bader GD, Pugh TJ, Tyers M, Lupien M, Haibe-Kains B, Artee Luchman H, Weiss S, Massirer KB, Prinos P, Arrowsmith CH, Dirks PB.
Nat Commun. 2021 Feb 12;12(1):979. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21204-5. PMID: 33579912; PMCID: PMC7881162. (CA)
17. Predicting Toxicity and Response to Pembrolizumab Through Germline Genomic HLA Class 1 Analysis.
Iafolla MAJ, Yang C, Chandran V, Pintilie M, Li Q, Bedard PL, Hansen A, Lheureux S, Spreafico A, Razak AA, Hakgor S, Giesler A, Pugh TJ, Siu LL.
JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2021 Feb;5(1):pkaa115. doi: 10.1093/jncics/pkaa115. eCollection 2021 Feb. PMID: 33554038; PMCID: PMC7853183. (CA)
18. An integrative DNA sequencing and methylation panel to assess mismatch repair deficiency
Oldfield LE, Li TT, Tone A, Aronson M, Dowar M, Edwards M, Holter S, Quevedo R, Van de Laar E, Lerner-Ellis J, Pollett A, Clarke B, Tabori U, Gallinger S, Ferguson S, Pugh TJ
JMD. 2021 Feb;23(2):242-252. doi: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2020.11.006. PMID: 33259954 (SRA)
Richards LM*, Whitley OKN*, MacLeod G, Cavalli FMG, Coutinho FJ, Jaramillo JE, Svergun N, Riverin M, Croucher DC, Kushida M, Yu K, Guilhamon P, Rastegar N, Ahmadi M, Bhatti JK, Bozek DA, Li N, Lee L, Che C, Luis E, Park NI, Xu Z, Ketela T, Moore RA, Marra MA, Spears J, Cusimano MD, Das S, Bernstein M, Haibe-Kains B, Lupien M, Luchman HA, Weiss S, Angers S, Dirks PB+, Bader GD+, Pugh TJ+.
Nature Cancer. 2021 Feb. (SRA)
Lheureux S, Cristea MC, Bruce JP, Garg S, Cabanero M, Mantia-Smaldone G, Olawaiye AB, Ellard SL, Weberpals JI, Wahner Hendrickson AE, Fleming GF, Welch S, Dhani NC, Stockley T, Rath P, Karakasis K, Jones GN, Jenkins S, Rodriguez-Canales J, Tracy M, Tan Q, Bowering V, Udagani S, Wang L, Kunos CA, Chen E, Pugh TJ, Oza AM.
Lancet. 2021 Jan 23;397(10271):281-292. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32554-X. PMID: 33485453. (CA)
21. Colorectal Cancer Cells Enter a Diapause-like DTP State to Survive Chemotherapy.
Rehman SK, Haynes J, Collignon E, Brown KR, Wang Y, Nixon AML, Bruce JP, Wintersinger JA, Singh Mer A, Lo EBL, Leung C, Lima-Fernandes E, Pedley NM, Soares F, McGibbon S, He HH, Pollet A, Pugh TJ, Haibe-Kains B, Morris Q, Ramalho-Santos M, Goyal S, Moffat J, O’Brien CA.
Cell. 2021 Jan 7;184(1):226-242.e21. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.018. PMID: 33417860. (CA)
2020
Restall IJ, Cseh O, Richards LM, Pugh TJ, Luchman HA, Weiss S
Cancer Res. 2020 Dec 15;80(24):5478-5490. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-3923. (CA)
Abelson S, Zeng AGX, Nofech-Mozes I, Wang TT, Ng SWK, Minden MD, Pugh TJ, Awadalla P, Shlush LI, Murphy T, Chan SM, Dick JE, Bratman SV.
Sci Adv. 2020 Dec 9;6(50):eabe3722. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe3722. (CA)
3. Tumor site discordance in mismatch repair deficiency in synchronous endometrial and ovarian cancers.
Kim SR, Tone A, Kim R, Cesari M, Clarke B, Eiriksson L, Hart T, Aronson M, Holter S, Lytwyn A, Maganti M, Oldfield L, Gallinger S, Bernardini MQ, Oza AM, Djordjevic B, Lerner-Ellis J, Van de Laar E, Vicus D, Pugh TJ, Pollett A, Ferguson SE.
Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2020 Dec;30(12):1951-1958. doi: 10.1136/ijgc-2020-001927. PMID: 33082239
Kim SR, Tone A, Kim RH, Cesari M, Clarke BA, Eiriksson L, Hart T, Aronson M, Holter S, Lytwyn A, Maganti M, Oldfield L, Gallinger S, Bernardini MQ, Oza AM, Djordjevic B, Lerner-Ellis J, Van de Laar E, Vicus D, Pugh TJ, Pollet A, Ferguson SE.
Cancer. 2020 Aug 18. PMID: 32809219 (CA)
5. Assessment of Genetic Drift in Large Pharmacogenomic Studies
Quevedo R, Smirnov P, Tkachuk D, Ho C, El-Hachem N, Safikhani Z, Pugh TJ+, Haibe-Kains B+
Cell Systems. 2020 Sep 4;S2405-4712(20)30323-9. PMID: 32937114 (SRA)
6. Clinical impact of combined epigenetic and molecular analysis of pediatric low grade gliomas
Fukuoka K, Mamatjan Y, Tatevossian R, Zapotocky M, Ryall S, Stucklin AG, Bennett J, Nobre LF, Arnoldo A, Luu B, Wen J, Zhu K, Leon A, Torti D, Pugh TJ, Hazrati L, Laperriere N, Drake J, Rutka J, Dirks P, Kulkarni A, Taylor M, Bartels U, Huang A, Zadeh G, Aldape K, Ramaswamy V, Bouffet E, Snuderl M, Ellison D, Hawkins C, Tabori U.
Neuro Oncol. 2020 Oct 14;22(10):1474-1483. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa077. PMID: 32242226 (CA)
Uppaluri R, Campbell KM, Egloff AM, Zolkind P, Skidmore ZL, Nussenbaum B, Paniello RC, Rich JT, Jackson R, Pipkorn P, Michel LP, Ley J, Oppelt P, Dunn G, Barnell E, Spies N, Lin T, Li T, Mulder DT, Hanna Y, Cirlan I, Pugh TJ, Mudianto T, Riley R, Zhou L, Jo VY, Stachler MD, Hanna GJ, Kass J, Haddad R, Schoenfeld JD, Gjini E, Lako A, Thorstad W, Gay HA, Daly M, Rodig SJ, Hagemann IS, Kallogjeri D, Piccirillo JF, Chernock RD, Griffith M, Griffith OL, Adkins DR.
Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Oct 1;26(19):5140-5152. PMID: 32665297 (CA)
8. Wnt activation as a therapeutic strategy in medulloblastoma
Manoranjan B, Venugopal C, Bakhshinyan D, Adile AA, Richards L, Kameda-Smith MM, Whitley O, Dvorkin-Gheva A, Subapanditha M, Savage N, Tatari N, McKenna D, Bassey-Archibong B, Winegarden N, Hallett R, Provias JP, Yarascavitch B, Ajani O, Fleming A, Bader GD, Pugh TJ, Doble BW, Singh SK.
Nat Commun. 2020 Aug 28;11(1):4323. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17953-4. PMID: 32859895 (CA)
Lheureux S, Oaknin A, Garg S, Bruce JP, Madariaga A, Dhani NC, Bowering V, White J, Accardi S, Tan Q, Braunstein M., Karakasis K, Cirlan I, Pedersen S, Li T, Fariñas-Madrid L, Lee YC, Liu ZA, Pugh TJ, Oza AM.
Clinical Cancer Research. 2020 Aug 15;26(16):4206-4215. PMID: 32444417 (CA)
Bratman SV*, Yang SYC*, Iafolla MAJ, Liu Z, Hansen AR, Bedard PL, Lheureux S, Spreafico A, Razak AA, Shchegrova S, Louie M, Billings P, Zimmermann B, Sethi H, Aleshin A, Torti D, Marsh K, Eagles J, Cirlan I, Hanna Y, Clouthier DL, Lien SC, Ohashi PS, Xu W, Siu LL+, Pugh TJ+
Nature Cancer. 2020 Aug 3 1:873–881 (SRA)
Crumbaker M, Pathmanandavel S, Yam AO, Nguyen A, Ho B, Chan L, Ende JA, Rofe C, Kongrak K, Kwan EM, Azad AA, Sharma S, Pugh TJ, Danesh A, Keane J, Eu P, Joshua AM, Emmett L.
Eur Urol Oncol. 2020 Aug 2;S2588-9311(20)30093-6. PMID: 32758400 (CA)
12. CReSCENT: CanceR Single Cell ExpressioN Toolkit.
Mohanraj S*, Díaz-Mejía JJ*, Pham MD, Elrick H, Husić M, Rashid S, Luo P, Bal P, Lu K, Patel S, Mahalanabis A, Naidas A, Christensen E, Croucher D, Richards LM, Shooshtari P, Brudno M+, Ramani AK+, Pugh TJ+.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Jul 2; 48(W1):W372-W379. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa437. PMID: 32479601 (CA)
Quevedo R*, Spreafico A*, Bruce J, Danesh A, El Ghamrasni S, Giesler A, Hanna Y, Have C, Li T, Yang SYC, Zhang T, Asa SL, Haibe-Kains B, Krzyzanowska M, Smith AC, Singh S, Siu LL+, Pugh TJ+.
Genome Medicine. 2020 April 28;12(18):1-15. PMID: 32345369 (SRA)
Murata K, Nakatsugawa M, Rahman MA, Nguyen LT, Millar DG, Mulder DT, Sugata K, Saijo H, Matsunaga Y, Kagoya Y, Guo T, Anczurowski M, Wang CH, Burt BD, Ly D, Saso K, Easson A, Goldstein DP, Reedijk M, Ghazarian DA, Pugh TJ, Butler MO, Mak TW, Ohashi PS, Hirano N. I. 2020 Apr 25;9: e53244 doi: 10.7554/eLife.53244. PMID: 32314731 (CA)
15. Translational genomics of nasopharyngeal cancer.
Tsang CM, Lui VWY, Bruce JP, Pugh TJ, Lo KW.
Semin Cancer Biol. 2019 Sep 12. pii: S1044-579X(19)30284-6. Review. PMID: 31521748 (CA)
16. Rare driver mutations in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas converge on NOTCH signaling
Loganathan SK, Schleicher K, Malik A, Quevedo R, Langille E, Teng K, Oh RH, Rathod B, Tsai R, Samavarchi-Tehrani P, Pugh TJ, Gingras AC, Schramek D
Science. 2020 Mar 13;367(6483): 1264 – 1269. PMID: 32165588 (CA)
17. IL6 induces an IL22+ CD8+ T cell subset with potent antitumor function.
St Paul M, Saibil SD, Lien SL, Han S, Sayad A, Mulder D, Garcia-Batres CR, Elford AR, Israni-Winger K, Robert-Tissot C, Zon M, Katz SR, Shaw P, Clarke BA, Bernardini MQ, Nguyen LT, Haibe-Kains B, Pugh TJ, Ohashi PS.
Cancer Immunol Res. 2020 Jan 21. pii: canimm.0521.2019. PMID: 31964625 (CA)