pulmonary carcinomas
Types
pulmonary adenocarcinoma
pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma
pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma
pulmonary mucinous carcinoma
Familial susceptibility loci
6q23-25 (15272417)
51 genomic regions with homozygous deletions (HDs) (17674361)
Fusion genes
EML4/ALK fusion gene in non-small-cell lung cancer (17625570)
Reviews
Wistuba II. Genetics of preneoplasia: lessons from lung cancer. Curr Mol Med. 2007 Feb;7(1):3-14. PMID: 17311529
Meuwissen R, Berns A. Mouse models for human lung cancer. Genes Dev. 2005 Mar 15;19(6):643-64. PMID: 15769940
References
Sun S, Schiller JH, Gazdar AF. Lung cancer in never smokers?a different disease. Nat Rev Cancer. 2007 Oct;7(10):778-90. PMID: 17882278
Soda M, Choi YL, Enomoto M, Takada S, Yamashita Y, Ishikawa S, Fujiwara SI, Watanabe H, Kurashina K, Hatanaka H, Bando M, Ohno S, Ishikawa Y, Aburatani H, Niki T, Sohara Y, Sugiyama Y, Mano H. Identification of the transforming EML4-ALK fusion gene in non-small-cell lung cancer. Nature. 2007 Jul 11; PMID: 17625570
Nagayama K, Kohno T, Sato M, Arai Y, Minna JD, Yokota J. Homozygous deletion scanning of the lung cancer genome at a 100-kb resolution. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2007 Aug 2; PMID: 17674361