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Technical laboratory standards for interpretation and reporting of acquired copy-number abnormalities and copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity in neoplastic disorders: a joint consensus recommendation from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) and the Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC).

Mikhail FM, Biegel JA, Cooley LD, Dubuc AM, Hirsch B, Horner VL, Newman S, Shao L, Wolff DJ, Raca G.    Genet Med. 2019 May 29 PMID:31138931

 

Centrosome amplification induces high grade features and is prognostic of worse outcomes in breast cancer

Ryan A. Denu, Lauren M. Zasadil, Craig Kanugh, Jennifer Laffin, Beth A. Weaver and Mark E. Burkard   BMC Cancer (2016) 16:47.

 

A multi-center, cross-platform clinical validation study of cancer cytogenomic arrays

Li, Marilyn M., Federico A. Monzon, Jaclyn A. Biegel, Vaidehi Jobanputra, Jennifer J. Laffin, Brynn Levy, Annette Leon et al.  Cancer Genetics (2015).

 

Polyploidy: A new breast cancer subtype and a lead compound that targets it with high selectivity.

Mark E. Burkard, Alka Choudhary, Robert F. Lera, Ross Fedenia, Craig Kanugh, Jennifer J. Laffin, Lauren M. Zasadil, Beth A. Weaver, and Kari B. Wisinski. Proceedings: AACR Annual Meeting 2014; April 5-9, 2014; San Diego, CA , Abstract 2526

 

MECP2 duplication: possible cause of severe phenotype in females.

Scott Schwoerer J, Laffin J, Haun J, Raca G, Friez MJ, Giampietro PF. Am J Med Genet A. 2014 Apr;164A(4):1029-34.

 

The advantage of using SNP array in clinical testing for hematological malignancies – a comparative study of three genetic testing methods
Xinjie Xu, Eric B. Johnson, Lisa Leverton, Ashley Arthur, Quinn Watson,
Faye L. Chang, Gordana Raca, Jennifer J. Laffin Cancer Genetics 206 (2013) 317-326

 

 


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