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Zachary L. Skidmore

Staff Scientist, The Genome Institute, Washington University St. Louis
Verified email at genome.wustl.edu
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[HTML][HTML] CIViC is a community knowledgebase for expert crowdsourcing the clinical interpretation of variants in cancer

…, L Kujan, EK Barnell, AH Wagner, ZL Skidmore… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
CIViC is an expert-crowdsourced knowledgebase for Clinical Interpretation of Variants in
Cancer describing the therapeutic, prognostic, diagnostic and predisposing relevance of …

DGIdb 2.0: mining clinically relevant drug–gene interactions

…, BJ Ainscough, NC Spies, ZL Skidmore… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The Drug–Gene Interaction Database (DGIdb, www.dgidb.org ) is a web resource that
consolidates disparate data sources describing drug–gene interactions and gene druggability. It …

Neoadjuvant and adjuvant pembrolizumab in resectable locally advanced, human papillomavirus–unrelated head and neck cancer: a multicenter, phase II trial

…, KM Campbell, AM Egloff, P Zolkind, ZL Skidmore… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: Pembrolizumab improved survival in patients with recurrent or metastatic head
and neck squamous-cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The aims of this study were to determine if …

NeoPalAna: neoadjuvant palbociclib, a cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitor, and anastrozole for clinical stage 2 or 3 estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer

…, Z Guo, MV Lee, NC Spies, ZL Skidmore… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 drives cell proliferation in estrogen receptor–positive
(ER + ) breast cancer. This single-arm phase II neoadjuvant trial (NeoPalAna) …

GenVisR: genomic visualizations in R

ZL Skidmore, AH Wagner, R Lesurf… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Visualizing and summarizing data from genomic studies continues to be a challenge. Here,
we introduce the GenVisR package to addresses this challenge by providing highly …

[PDF][PDF] Optimizing cancer genome sequencing and analysis

…, ZL Skidmore, A Ramu, JR Walker, HX Dang, L Trani… - Cell systems, 2015 - cell.com
Tumors are typically sequenced to depths of 75x–100x (exome) or 30x–50x (whole genome).
We demonstrate that current sequencing paradigms are inadequate for tumors that are …

[HTML][HTML] The prognostic effects of somatic mutations in ER-positive breast cancer

…, J Hundal, BJ Ainscough, ZL Skidmore… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Here we report targeted sequencing of 83 genes using DNA from primary breast cancer
samples from 625 postmenopausal (UBC-TAM series) and 328 premenopausal (MA12 trial) …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrent WNT pathway alterations are frequent in relapsed small cell lung cancer

…, ZL Skidmore, K Krysiak, A Ramu, L Trani… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Nearly all patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) eventually relapse with chemoresistant
disease. The molecular mechanisms driving chemoresistance in SCLC remain un-…

Rapid progression of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma as tumor-infiltrating Tregs after PD-1 blockade

…, A Joseph, ZL Skidmore… - Blood, The Journal …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a powerful new tool in the treatment of cancer, with prolonged
responses in multiple diseases, including hematologic malignancies, such as Hodgkin …

A phase I trial of BKM120 (Buparlisib) in combination with fulvestrant in postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor–positive metastatic breast cancer

…, ZL Skidmore, NC Spies, A Ramu, L Trani… - Clinical cancer …, 2016 - AACR
Purpose: This trial was conducted to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and
preliminary efficacy of buparlisib, an oral pan-class I PI3K inhibitor, plus fulvestrant in …