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Melissa A. Burns

- Verified email at dfci.harvard.edu - Cited by 962

Melissa Burns-Cusato

- Verified email at centre.edu - Cited by 591

Single origin of Malagasy Carnivora from an African ancestor

AD Yoder, MM Burns, S Zehr, T Delefosse, G Veron… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
The Carnivora are one of only four orders of terrestrial mammals living in Madagascar today.
All four (carnivorans, primates, rodents and lipotyphlan insectivores) are placental …

Bead-based profiling of tyrosine kinase phosphorylation identifies SRC as a potential target for glioblastoma therapy

…, DR Mani, SP Finn, R Beroukhim, M Burns… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
The aberrant activation of tyrosine kinases represents an important oncogenic mechanism,
and yet the majority of such events remain undiscovered. Here we describe a bead-based …

Metabolic characterization of human prostate cancer with tissue magnetic resonance spectroscopy

LL Cheng, MA Burns, JL Taylor, W He, EF Halpern… - Cancer research, 2005 - AACR
Diagnostic advancements for prostate cancer have so greatly increased early detections
that hope abounds for improved patient outcomes. However, histopathology, which guides …

Genomic DNA transposition induced by human PGBD5

…, JR Carson, CM Villasante, M Ray, E Still, M Burns… - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.10565.001 Transposons are mobile genetic elements that are found in nearly
all organisms, including humans. Mobilization of DNA transposons by transposase enzymes …

Molecular basis of ETV6-mediated predisposition to childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

…, M Bloom, K Verbist, M Burns… - Blood, The Journal …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
There is growing evidence supporting an inherited basis for susceptibility to acute lymphoblastic
leukemia (ALL) in children. In particular, we and others reported recurrent germline …

Identification of prognostic factors in childhood T‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Results from DFCI ALL Consortium Protocols 05‐001 and 11‐001

MA Burns, AE Place, KE Stevenson… - Pediatric blood & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background/objectives While outcomes for pediatric T‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T‐ALL)
are favorable, there are few widely accepted prognostic factors, limiting the ability to …

Hedgehog pathway mutations drive oncogenic transformation in high-risk T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

MA Burns, ZW Liao, N Yamagata, GP Pouliot… - Leukemia, 2018 - nature.com
The role of Hedgehog signaling in normal and malignant T-cell development is controversial.
Recently, Hedgehog pathway mutations have been described in T-ALL, but whether …

Phylogenetic relationships and reticulation among Asian Elymus (Poaceae) allotetraploids: analyses of three nuclear gene trees

RJ Mason-Gamer, MM Burns, M Naum - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2010 - Elsevier
This phylogenetic study focuses on a subset of the species in Elymus—specifically, the endemic
Asian tetraploids presumed to combine the St genome from Pseudoroegneria with the Y …

PRC2 loss induces chemoresistance by repressing apoptosis in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

…, TN Chonghaile, L Hinze, MA Burns… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - rupress.org
The tendency of mitochondria to undergo or resist BCL2-controlled apoptosis (so-called
mitochondrial priming) is a powerful predictor of response to cytotoxic chemotherapy. Fully …

Sign tracking versus goal tracking in the sexual conditioning of male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica).

M Burns, M Domjan - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal …, 1996 - psycnet.apa.org
Pairings of a CS and unconditioned stimulus/stimuli (UCS) stimulus can result in approach
to either the CS (sign tracking) or the UCS (goal tracking). Increasing the spatial or temporal …