breen lab @ ncsu

 

Lab Publications

 

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2021

•  Julia Allwood, Erin Meredith; Christina Lindquist; Matthew Breen (2021). Application of an established canine genotyping method to a sequence-based approach. Forensic Science International: Animals and Environments. In press
• Gregory Tawa, John Braisted, Dave Gerhold, Gurmit Grewal, Christina Mazcko, Matthew Breen, Sitta Sittampalam, Amy Leblanc (2021). Proteo-genomics of cancer in canines and humans reveals molecular signatures for drug discovery and blood-based biopsy. Science Translational Medicine. In press 
• Peart, Claire; Williams, Christina ; Pophaly, Saurabh; Neely, Benjamin; Gulland, Frances; Adams, David; Ng, Bee; Cheng, William; Goebel, Michael; Fedrigo, Olivier; Haase, Bettina; Mountcastle, Jacquelyn; Fungtammasan, Arkarachai; Formenti, Giulio; Collins, Joanna; Wood, Jonathan; Sims, Ying; Torrance, James; Tracey, Alan; Howe, Kerstin; Rhie, Arang; Hoffman, Joe; Johnson, Jeremy; Jarvis, Erich; Breen, Matthew*; Wolf, Jochen* (2021). Hi-C scaffolded short and long-read genome assemblies of the California sea lion are broadly consistent for syntenic inference across 45 million years of evolution. Molecular Ecology Resources, June 2021 (DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13443) *Co-senior authors  OPEN ACCESS

2020

• Rachael Thomas, Joan U Pontius, Luke B Borst, Matthew Breen (2020). Development of a genome-wide oligonucleotide microarray platform for detection of DNA copy number aberrations in feline cancers. Vet. Sci.7(3), 88; OPEN ACCESS.
• Wise, C.F., Hammel, S.C., Herkert, N, Ma, J, Motsinger-Reif, A., Stapleton, H., Breen, M. (2020). Comparative Exposure Assessment Using Silicone Passive Samplers Indicates Domestic Dogs are Sentinels to Support Human Health Research. Environmental Science and Technology 54(12):7409-7419. PUBMED 
• Camille A. McAloney, Nina C. Zitzer,  Katherine L. Taikowski, Matthew Breen, Katherine A. Kennedy, Maxey L. Wellman, Jessica A. Hokamp (2020). Pathology in Practice: Neutrophilic Exudate with Evidence of Bacterial Infection and Malignant Epithelial Neoplasia in Peritoneal Effusion in a Dog. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (in press).
• Julia Allwood, Noah Fierer, Robert Dunn, Matthew Breen, Brian Reich, Eric Laber, Jesse Clifton, Neal Grantham, Seth Faith (2020). Use of standardized bioinformatics for the analysis of fungal DNA signatures applied to sample provenance. Forensic Science International (in press). PUBMED
• Benoît Hédan, Mélanie Rault, Jérôme Abadie, Ronan Ulvé, Nadine Botherel, Christiane Copie-Bergman, Marie Parrens, Emmanuelle Lechapt Zalcman, Gandhi Damaj, Karima Mokhtari, François Le Loarer, Thomas Derrien, Christophe Hitte, Laura Bachelot, David Gilot, Matthew Breen, Jean-Yves Blay, Jean-Francois Emile, Jean Donadieu, and Catherine André. (2020). PTPN11 mutations in canine and human disseminated histiocytic sarcoma. International Journal of Cancer (in press). On line 25 March 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.32991
• Erin Lashnits, Pradeep Neupane, Julie M. Bradley, Toni Richardson, Rachael Thomas, Keith E. Linder, Matthew Breen, Ricardo G. Maggi, Edward B. Breitschwerdt (2020). Molecular prevalence of Bartonella, Babesia, and hemotropic Mycoplasma species in dogs with hemangiosarcoma from across the United States. Plos One.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227234

2019

• Michael L. Fisher, Jay F. Levine, James S. Guy, Hiroyuki Mochizuki, Matthew Breen, Coby Schal and David W. Watson. (2019). Lack of influence by endosymbiont Wolbachia on virus titer in the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius. Parasites and Vectors12:436 PMID: 31500667 PUBMED
• Kate Megquier, Jason Turner-Maier, Ross Swofford, Jong-Hyuk Kim, Aaron Sarver, Chao Wang, Sharadha Sakthikumar, Jeremy Johnson, Michele Koltookian, Mitzi Lewellen, Milcah Scott, Ashley Graef, Luke Borst, Noriko Tonomura, Jessica Alföldi, Corrie Painter, Rachael Thomas, Elinor Karlsson, Matthew Breen, Jaime Modiano, Ingegerd Elvers, and Kerstin Lindblad-Toh.(2019) Genomic analysis reveals shared genomic landscape between canine hemangiosarcoma and human angiosarcoma. Molecular Cancer Research 17(12):2410-2421. PMID: 31570656 PUBMED
• Claire Wiley, Catherine Wise, Matthew Breen, Novel Noninvasive Diagnostics. (2019). Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 49:5, 781-791. PMID: 31280902 PUBMED
• Katherine Kennedy, Rachael Thomas, Jessica Durrant, Tao Jiang, Alison Motsinger-Reif, and Matthew Breen (2019). DNA copy number and targeted transcriptional analysis of canine histiocytic malignancies identifies diagnostic signatures and highlights disruption of spindle assembly complex. Chromosome Research 27(3):179-202. PMID: 31011867 PUBMED

2018

• Michael L. Fisher, David W. Watson, Jason A. Osborne, Hiroyuki Mochizuki,Matthew Breen, Coby Schal (2018). Growth kinetics of endosymbiont Wolbachia in the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius. Scientific Reports (2018) 8:11444 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-29682-2
• Antonella Borgatti, Joseph S. Koopmeiners, Aaron L. Sarver, Amber L. Winter, Kathleen Stuebner Deborah Todhunter, Anthony Rizzardi, Jonathan C. Henriksen, Stephen Schmechel, Colleen L. Forster, Jong-Hyuk Kim, Jerry Froelich, Jillian Zientek, Michael Henson, Matthew Breen, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Jaime F. Modiano, Daniel A. Vallera (2017). Sarcoma Therapy Simultaneously Targeting EGFR and uPAR with a Recombinant Bispecific Angiotoxin Improves Survival while Abating Toxicity Associated with EGFR Targeting. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics (in press).
• N.J.N. Goncalves,  F.F. Bressan, K.C.S. Roballo, F.V. Meirelles,  P.L.P. Xavier, H. Fukumasu, C. Williams, M. Breen, S. Kohe, R. Sper, J. Piedrahita, C.E. Ambr.sio. (2017). Generation of LIF-independent induced pluripotent stem cells from canine fetalfibroblasts. Theriogenology 92: 75-82.
• Matthew Breen, Claire Wiley, Shelly Vaden, Cynthia Cole. Liquid Biopsy in Veterinary Medicine. Veterinary Focus, June 2018.
• William P. D. Hendricks, Victoria Zismann, Karthigayini Sivaprakasam, Christophe Legendre, Kelsey Poorman, Waibhav Tembe, Jeffrey Kiefer, Winnie Liang, Valerie DeLuca, Mitchell Stark, Alison Ruhe, Roe Froman, Nicholas Duesbury, Megan Washington, Jessica Aldrich, Mark Neff, Matthew Huentelman, Nicholas Hayward, Kevin Brown, Douglas Thamm, Gerry Post, Chand Khanna, Barbara Davis, Matthew Breen, Aleksandar Sekulic, Jeffrey Trent (2018). Somatic inactivating PTPRJ mutations and dysregulated pathways identified in canine melanoma by integrated comparative genomic analysis. PLOS Genetics; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007589
• Sharadha Sakthikumar, Ingegerd Elvers, Jaegil Kim, Maja L. Arendt, Rachael Thomas, Jason Turner-Maier, Ross Swofford, Jeremy Johnson, Steven E. Schumacher, Jessica Alföldi, Erik Axelsson, C. Guillermo Couto, William C. Kisseberth, Mats E. Pettersson, Gad Getz, Jennifer R.S. Meadows, Jaime F. Modiano, Matthew Breen, Marcin Kierczak, Karin Forsberg-Nilsson, Voichita D. Marinescu and Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (2018). SETD2 Is Recurrently Mutated in Whole-Exome Sequenced Canine Osteosarcoma. Cancer Res; 78(13); 3421–3431.

• Eleftheria Palkopoulou, Mark Lipson, Swapan Mallick, Svend Nielsen, Nadin Rohland, Sina Baleka, Emil Karpinski, Atma M. Ivancevic, Thu-Hien To, R. Daniel Kortschak, Joy M. Raison, Zhipeng Qu, Tat-Jun Chin, Kurt W. Alt, Stefan Claesson, Love Dalen, Ross MacPhee, Harald Meller, Alfred L. Roca, Oliver Ryder, David Heiman, Sarah Young, Matthew Breen, Christina Williams, Bronwen L. Aken, Magali Ruffier, Elinor Karlsson, Jeremy Johnson, Federica Di Palma, Jessica Alfoldi, David L. Adelson, Thomas Mailund, Kasper Munch, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Michael Hofreiter, Hendrik Poinar and David Reich (2018). A comprehensive genomic history of the extinct and extant elephants. PNAS Feb 2018
• Paul R. Reid, Clinton George, Christopher M. Byrd, Laura Miller, Stephen J. Lee, Alison Motsinger-Reif, Matthew Breen, Daniel W. Hayduk (2018). Blood Lead Toxicity Analysis of Multipurpose Canines and Military Working Dogs. J Spec. Ops Med.18(1) 18-80.

2017

• Marta Santos, Patrícia Dias-Pereira, Christina Williams, Carlos Lopes, Matthew Breen (2017). Malignant canine mammary tumours: Preliminary genomic insights using oligonucleotide array comparative genomic hybridisation analysis. The Vet Journal (in press).
• Antonella Borgatti, Joseph S. Koopmeiners, Aaron L. Sarver, Amber L. Winter, Kathleen Stuebner Deborah Todhunter, Anthony Rizzardi, Jonathan C. Henriksen, Stephen Schmechel, Colleen L. Forster, Jong-Hyuk Kim, Jerry Froelich, Jillian Zientek, Michael Henson, Matthew Breen, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Jaime F. Modiano, Daniel A. Vallera (2017). Sarcoma Therapy Simultaneously Targeting EGFR and uPAR with a Recombinant Bispecific Angiotoxin Improves Survival while Abating Toxicity Associated with EGFR Targeting. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics (in press).
• N.J.N. Goncalves,  F.F. Bressan, K.C.S. Roballo, F.V. Meirelles,  P.L.P. Xavier, H. Fukumasu, C. Williams, M. Breen, S. Kohe, R. Sper, J. Piedrahita, C.E. Ambr.sio. (2017). Generation of LIF-independent induced pluripotent stem cells from canine fetalfibroblasts. Theriogenology 92: 75-82.
• Hiroyuki Mochizuki, Rachael Thomas, Scott Moroff, Matthew Breen (2017). Genomic profiling of canine mast cell tumors identifies DNA copy number aberrations associated with KIT mutations and high histological grade. Chromosome Research 25(2): 129–143.
• Hiroyuki Mochizuki, Alison Motsinger-Reif, Chuck Bettini, Scott Moroff, Matthew Breen (2017). Association of Breed and Histopathological Grade in Canine Mast Cell Tumors. Veterinary and Comparative Oncology 15(3), 829-839.
• M. Taylor Hensley, Junnan Tang, Kathleen Woodruff, Teresa Defrancesco, Bruce Keen, Sandra Tou, Christina M. Williams, Mathew Breen, Kathryn Meurs, Ke Cheng (2017). Intracoronary allogeneic cardiosphere-derived stem cells are safe for use in dogs with dilated cardiomyopathy. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 21(8):1503-1512
• Im KS, Graef AJ, Breen M, Lindblad-Toh K, Modiano JF, Kim JH (2017). Interactions between CXCR4 and CXCL12 promote cell migration and invasion of canine hemangiosarcoma. (2015). Vet Comp Oncol. 15(2):315-327 PubMed link.
• Ji-Hey Lim, Sehwon Koh, Rachael Thomas, Matthew Breen, Natasha J. Olby. (2017) Evaluation of gene expression and DNA copy number profiles of adipose tissue derived stromal cells and consecutive neural progenitors generated from dogs with naturally occurring spinal cord injury. AJVR 78(3):371-380
• Rachael Thomas, Zoltan Demeter, Katherine A. Kennedy, Luke Borst, Kuldeep Singh, Victor E. Valli, Kevin Le Boedec, Matthew Breen (2017). Integrated Immunohistochemical and DNA Copy Number Profiling Analysis Provides Insight into the Molecular Pathogenesis of Canine Follicular Lymphoma. Veterinary and Comparative Oncology 15(3): 852–867.
• Hiroyuki Mochizuki and Matthew Breen (2017). Sequence analysis of RAS and BRAF mutation hot spots in canine carcinoma. Veterinary and Comparative Oncology 15(4); 1598–1605.

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2016

• Seelig, D., Ito D., Forster, C., Yoon, U., Breen, M., Burns, L., Bachanova, V.,  Lindblad-Toh, K., O'Brien, T., Schmechel, S., Rizzardi, A., Modiano, J., Linden, M. Constitutive activation of alternative nuclear factor kappa B pathway in canine diffuse large B-cell lymphoma contributes to tumor cell survival and is a target of new adjuvant therapies. Leukemia and Lymphoma 1-9. DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2016.1260122.
• Amy K. LeBlanc, Christina Mazcko, Diane B. Brown, Jennifer W. Koehler, Andrew D. Miller, C. Ryan Miller, R. Timothy Bentley, Rebecca A. Packer, Matthew Breen, Beth Boudreau, Jonathan M. Levine, Mark R. Simpson, Charles Halsey, William Kisseberth, John H. Rossmeisl Jr., Peter J. Dickinson, Timothy Fan, Kara Corps, Kenneth Aldape, Vinay Puduvalli, Mark R. Gilbert (2016). Creation of an NCI Comparative Brain Tumor Consortium: Informing the translation of new knowledge from canine to human brain tumor patients. Journal of Neuro Oncology (in press)
• Rachael Thomas, Zoltan Demeter, Katherine A. Kennedy, Luke Borst, Kuldeep Singh, Victor E. Valli, Kevin Le Boedec, Matthew Breen. Integrated Immunohistochemical and DNA Copy Number Profiling Analysis Provides Insight Into the Molecular Pathogenesis of Canine Follicular Lymphoma. Veterinary and Comparative Oncology 15(3): 852–867.
• Katherine Kennedy, Rachael Thomas, Matthew Breen (2016). Canine histiocytic malignancies. Challenges and opportunities. Veterinary Sciences 3(1), 2
• A.K.LeBlanc, M.Breen, P.Choyke, M.Dewhirst, T.M.Fan, D.L.Gustafson, L.J.Helman, M.B.Kastan, D.W.Knapp, W.J.Levin, C.London, N.Mason, C.Mazcko, P.N.Olson, R.Page, B.A.Teicher, D.H.Thamm, J.M.Trent, D.M.Vail, C.Khanna. (2016) Perspectives from man’s best friend: National Academy of Medicine’s Workshop on Comparative Oncology. Sci. Transl. Med. 8,324ps5.
• Hiroyuki Mochizuki, Susan G. Shapiro, Matthew Breen (2015). Detection of copy number imbalance in canine urothelial carcinoma using droplet digital PCR. Veterinary Pathology 53(4) 764-772.

2015

• Hiroyuki Mochizuki, Susan G. Shapiro, Matthew Breen (2015). Detection of BRAF Mutation in Urine DNA as a Molecular Diagnostic for Canine Urothelial and Prostatic Carcinoma. PLoS One Dec 9th 2015.
• Ingegerd Elvers, Jason Turner-Maier, Ross Swofford, Michele Koltookian, Jeremy Johnson, Chip Stewart, Cheng-Zhong Zhang, Steven E Schumacher, Rameen Beroukhim, Mara Rosenberg, Rachael Thomas, Evan Mauceli, Gad Getz, Federica Di Palma, Jaime F Modiano, Matthew Breen, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh,  Jessica Alföldi. (2015). Exome sequencing of lymphomas from three dog breeds reveals somatic mutation patterns reflecting genetic background. Genome Res. 25: 1634-1645
• Shapiro, S, Knapp, D, and Breen, M. (2015). A cultured approach to canine urothelial carcinoma: molecular characterization of five cell line. Canine Genetics and Epidemiology 2:15 on-line access
• Mochizuki, H. and Breen, M. (2015). Comparative Aspects of BRAF Mutations in Canine Cancers. Veterinary Sciences 2(3), 231-245 on-line access
• Breen, M. (2015). Comparative Cytogenetics. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005801.pub3 on-line access
• Leonard Nunney, Carlo C. Maley, Matthew Breen, Michael E. Hochberg, Joshua D. Schiffman (2015). Introduction: Peto's paradox and the promise of comparative oncology . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 370 (1673)
• Schiffman, J.D. and Breen, M. (2015). Comparative Oncology: What dogs and other species can teach us about humans with cancer. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 370 (1673)
• Mazcko, C. and Thomas, R. (2015). The Establishment of the Pfizer-Canine Comparative Oncology and Genomics Consortium Biospecimen Repository. Veterinary Sciences 2015, 2(3), 127-130.
• Sarah C. Roode, Daniel Rotroff, Anne C. Avery, Steven E. Suter, Dorothee Bienzle, Joshua D. Schiffman, Alison Motsinger-Reif, and Matthew Breen. (2015). Genome-wide assessment of recurrent genomic imbalances in canine leukemia identifies evolutionarily conserved regions for subtype differentiation. Chromosome Research 23(4):681-708.
• Mochizuki, H, Kennedy, K, Shapiro, S.G., Breen, M. (2015). BRAF Mutations in Canine Cancers. PLoS One June 8 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129534 OPEN ACCESS
• ϕOmeir, R., ϕ,Thomas, R., Teferedegne, B., Williams, C., Foseh, G., Macauley, J., Brinster, L., Beren, J., Peden, K., Breen, M., Lewis, A. M. Jr. (2015). A novel canine kidney cell line model for the evaluation of neoplastic development: karyotype evolution associated with spontaneous immortalization and tumorigenicity. Chromosome Research DOI 10.1007/s10577-015-9474-8. ϕ equal contribution. OPEN ACCESS
• Shapiro, S.G., Raghunath, S., Williams, C., Motsinger-Reif, A., Cullen, J.M., Liu, T., Albertson, D., Ruvolo, M., Bergstrom Lucas, A., Jin, J., Knapp, D. Schiffman, J.D. and Breen, M (2015). Canine urothelial carcinoma: genomically aberrant and comparatively relevant. Chromosome Research 23:311–331
• Noriko Tonomura, Ingeggerd Elvers, Rachael Thomas, Katherine Megquier, Elinor Karlsson, Jason Turner-Maier, Cedric Howard, Aaron Sarver,  Ross Swofford, Aric Frantz, Daisuke Ito, Evan Mauceli, Maja Arendt, Hyun Ji Noh, Michele Koltookian, Tara Biagi, Sara Fryc, Chrsitine Williams, Anne Avery, Jong-Hyuk Kim, Lisa Barber, Kristine Burgess, Eric Lander, Elinor Karlsson, Chieko Azuma, Jaime Modiano†, Matthew Breen†, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh†  (co-senior authors). Genome-wide association study identifies shared risk loci common to two malignanciesin golden retrievers. PLoS Genetics. 02/2015; 11(2):e1004922.
• Kelsey Poorman, Luke Borst, Scott Moroff, Siddharth Roy, Philippe Labelle, Alison Motsinger-Reif, and Matthew Breen (2015). Comparative Cytogenetic Characterization of Primary Canine Melanocytic Lesions using Array CGH and Fluorescence in situ Hybridization. Chromosome Research 23:171-186.

2014

• Richard E. Green, Edward L. Braun, Joel Armstrong,  Dent Earl, Ngan Nguyen, Glenn Hickey, Michael W. Vandewege, John A. St. John, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Todd A. Castoe, Colin Kern, Matthew K. Fujita, Juan C. Opazo, Jerzy Jurka, Kenji K. Kojima, Juan Caballero, Robert M. Hubley, Arian F. Smit, Roy N. Platt, Christine A. Lavoie, Meganathan P. Ramakodi, John W. Finger Jr., Alexander Suh, Sally R. Isberg, Lee Miles, Amanda Y. Chong, Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri, Jaime Gongora, Christopher Moran, Andrés Iriarte, John McCormack, Shane C. Burgess, Scott V. Edwards, Eric Lyons, Christina Williams, Matthew Breen, Jason T. Howard, Cathy R. Gresham, Daniel G. Peterson, Jürgen Schmitz, David D. Pollock, David Haussler, Eric W. Triplett, Guojie Zhang, Naoki Irie, Erich D. Jarvis, Christopher Brochu, Carl J. Schmidt, Fiona M. McCarthy, Brant C. Faircloth, Federico G. Hoffmann, Travis C. Glenn, Toni Gabaldón, Benedict Paten, David A. Ray (2014). Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs.  Science 12 December 2014: 1254449 [DOI:10.1126/science.1254449]
• Nicholas D. Sanderson, Paul J. Norman, Lisbeth A. Guethlein, Shirley Ellis, Christina Williams, Matthew Breen, Steven D.E. Park, David A. Magee, Farbod Babrzadeh, Andrew Warry, Mick Watson, Daniel G. Bradley, David E. MacHugh, Peter Parham & John A. Hammond. Definition of the Cattle Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptor Gene Family and Comparison to Aurochs and Human Counterparts. Journal of Immunolog 193:6016-6030.
• Jessica K. Simmons, Wessel P. Dirksen, Blake E. Hildreth III, Carlee Dorr, Christina Williams, Rachael Thomas, Matthew Breen, Ramiro E. Toribio, Thomas J. Rosol (2014). Canine Prostate Cancer Cell Line (Probasco) Produces Osteoblastic Metastases in Vivo. The Prostate 74(13) 1251–1265.
• Rachael Thomas, Luke Borst, Daniel Rotroff, Alison Motsinger-Reif, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Jaime F. Modiano and Matthew Breen. (2014). Genomic profiling reveals extensive heterogeneity in somatic DNA copy number aberrations of canine hemangiosarcoma. Chromosome Research 22: 305-319.
• Gorden BH, Kim JH, Sarver AL, Frantz AM, Breen M, Lindblad-Toh K, O'Brien TD, Sharkey LC, Modiano JF, Dickerson EB. Identification of Three Molecular and Functional Subtypes in Canine Hemangiosarcoma through Gene Expression Profiling and Progenitor Cell Characterization. Am. J. Pthol 2014 Feb 11. pii: S0002-9440(14)00030-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2013.12.025. [Epub ahead of print].

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2013

• Elinor K. Karlsson, Snaevar Sigurdsson, Emma Ivansson, Rachael Thomas, Ingegerd Elvers, Jason Wright, Cedric Howald, Noriko Tonomura, Michele Perloski, Ross Swofford, Tara Biagi, Sarah Fryc, Nathan Anderson, Celine Courtay-Cahen, Lisa Youell, Sally Ricketts, Sarah Mandlebaum, Patricio Rivera, Henrik von Euler, Bill Kisseberth, Eric S. Lander, Guillermo Couto, Kenine Comstock, Mike P. Starkey, Jaime Modiano, Matthew Breen, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (2013). Genome-wide analyses implicate 33 loci in heritable dog osteosarcoma, including regulatory variants near CDKN2A/B. Genome Biology 14:R132 OPEN ACCESS
• Rotroff, D.M., Thomas, R., Breen, M, Motsinger-Reif, A. A.(2013). Naturally occuring canine cancers: powerful models for stimulating pharmacogenomic advancement in human medicine. Pharmacogenomics 14(16), 1929-1931 (Journal link)
• Mayrim L. Pe´rez*, Sarah Culver*, Jennifer Owen, Mark Dunbar, Kelvin Kow, Matthew Breen and Rowan J. Milner (2013). Partial cytogenetic response with toceranib and prednisone treatment in a young dog with chronic monocytic leukemia. Anticancer drugs 24(10):1098-1103. (Journal link)
  *shared 1st author.
• Kristy L. Richards, Alison A. Motsinger-Reif, Hsiao-wei Chen, Yuri Fedoriw, Cheng Fan, Dahlia M. Nielsen, George W. Small, Rachael Thomas, Chris Smith, Sandeep S. Dave, Charles M. Perou, Matthew Breen, Luke B. Borst, Steven E. Suter. Gene profiling of canine B cell lymphoma reveals germinal center and post-germinal center subtypes with different survival times, modelling human DLBCL. Cancer ResearchAugust 15, 2013 73:5029-5039.
• Yuhua Su, Dahlia Nielsen, Lei Zhu, Kristy Richards, Steven Suter, Matthew Breen, Alison Motsinger-Reif and Jason Osborne (2013). Gene selection and cancer type classification of diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma using a bivariate mixture model for two-species data. Human Genomics 7:2 OPEN ACCESS
• Sarah Culver, Daisuke Ito, Luke Borst, Jerold Bell, Jamie Modiano and Matthew Breen. Molecular characterization of canine BCR-ABL-positivie chronic myelomonocytic leukemia before and after chemotherapy. Vet Clin Path 42(30): 314–322 (Journal link)

2012

• Andrea Y. Angstadt, Venugopal Thayanithy, Subbaya Subramanian, Jaime F. Modiano, and Matthew Breen (2012). A genome-wide approach to comparative oncology: High-resolution oligonucleotide aCGH of canine and human OS pinpoints shared microaberrations. Cancer Genetics 205(11): 572–587(Journal link)
• Aric M. Frantz, Aaron L. Sarver, Daisuke Ito, Tzu Lip Phang, Anis Karimpour-Fard, Milcah C. Scott, Victor E. O. Valli, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Kristine E. Burgess, Brian D. Husbands, Michael S. Henson, Antonella Borgatti, William C. Kisseberth, Lawrence E. Hunter, Matthew Breen, Timothy D. O’Brien, Jaime F. Modiano. (2012). Molecular profiling reveals prognostically significant subtypes of canine lymphoma. Vet Pathology. 50(4) 693-703 (Journal link)
• Sehwon Koh, Rachael Thomas, Shengdar Tsai, Steve R. Bischoff, Ji-hey Lim, Matthew Breen, Natasha J. Olby, and Jorge A. Piedrahita (2012). Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) from adult canine fibroblasts. Stem Cells and Development 22(6):951-963. PubMed link
• Antoine Italiano, Chun-Liang Chen, Rachael Thomas, Matthew Breen, Françoise Bonnet Nicolas Sevenet Michel Longy, Robert G. Maki, Jean-Michel Coindre, Cristina R. Antonescu (2012). Alterations of P53 and PIK3CA/AKT/mTOR Pathway in Angiosarcomas: A Distinct Pattern from Other Sarcomas with Complex Genomics. Cancer 118(23):5878-5887 PubMed link
• Josely F. Figueiredo*, Sarah Culver*, Erica Behling-Kelly, Matthew Breen, Kristen Friedrichs (2012). Acute Myeloblastic leukemia with associated BCR-ABL translocation in a dog. Veterinary Clinical Pathology 31(3), 362-368 (*joint first author) (Journal link) PubMed link
• Tsai, P.C. and Breen, M. (2012). Array-based comparative genomic hybridization–guided identification of reference genes for normalization of real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay data for lymphomas, histiocytic sarcomas, and osteosarcomas of dogs. American Journal of Veterinary Research 73(9), 1335-1343. (Journal link) PubMed link
• Venugopal Thayanithy, Aaron L. Sarver, Reena V. Kartha, ChangWon Park, Milcah Scott, Andrea C. Young, Matthew Breen, Clifford J. Steer, Jaime F. Modiano and Subbaya Subramanian (2011). Perturbation in 14q32 miRNAs-MYC-miR-17~92 gene network contributes to osteosarcoma and is associated with survival outcome. Bone 50 (1), 171-181 PubMed link
• Shearin AL*, Hedan B*, Cadieu E, Erich SA, Schmidt EV, Faden DL, Cullen J, Abadie J, Kwon E, Gröne A, Devauchelle P, Rimbault M, Karyadi DM, Lynch M, Galibert F, Breen M, Rutteman GR, Andre C, Parker HG and Ostrander EA. (2012). The MTAP-INK4A Locus Confers Susceptibility to Cancer in a Naturally Occurring Canine Model. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers. Prev 012;21:1019-1027 (* contributed equally). (Journal link) PubMed link
• Breen, M., Thomas, R. (2012). Cytogenetics and Chromosome Maps: Chapter 11 in Genetics of the Dog, 2nd Edition. Ruvinsky and Ostrander- eds. CAB International, Oxon, U.K.
• Antoine Italiano, Rachael Thomas, Matthew Breen, Aimee Crago, Samuel Singer, Raya Khanin, Robert G Maki, Markus Hafner, Tom Tuschl, Cristina R. Antonescu. (2012). The miR-17-92 cluster microRNAs and its target THROMBOSPONDIN-1 are differentially expressed in angiosarcomas dependent on MYC amplification. Genes, Chromosome, Cancer 51(6)-569-578. PubMed link
• Daisuke Ito, Aric Frantz, Christina Williams, Rachael Thomas, Robert C. Burnett, Anne C. Avery, Matthew Breen, Nicola J. Mason, Timothy D. O’Brien and Jaime F. Modiano (2012). CD40 ligand is necessary and sufficient to support primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma cells in culture: a tool for in vitro preclinical studies with primary B-cell malignancies. Leukemia and Lymphoma 53, 1390-1398. PubMed link

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2011

• Eric L. Seiser, Rachael Thomas, Kristy L. Richards, M. Kathryn Kelley, Peter Moore, Steven E. Suter and Matthew Breen (2011). Reading Between the Lines: Molecular Characterization of Five Widely Utilized Canine Lymphoid Tumor Cell Lines. Veterinary and Comparative Oncology. on line Nov 23 2011. (Journal link)
• Jessica Alföldi, Federica Di Palma, Manfred Grabherr, Christina Williams, Lesheng Kong, Evan Mauceli, Pamela Russell, Craig B. Lowe, Richard Glor, Jacob D. Jaffe, David A. Ray, Stephane Boissinot, Andrew M. Shedlock, Christopher Botka, Todd A. Castoe, John K. Colbourne, Matthew K. Fujita, Ricardo Godinez Moreno, Boudewijn F. ten Hallers, David Haussler, Andreas Heger, David Heiman, Daniel E. Janes, Jeremy Johnson, Pieter J. de Jong, Maxim Y. Koriabine, Peter Novick, Chris L. Organ, Sally E. Peach, Steven Poe, David D. Pollock, Kevin de Queiroz, Thomas Sanger, Steve Searle, Jeremy D. Smith, Zachary Smith, Ross Swofford, Jason Turner-Maier, Juli Wade, Sarah Young, Amonida Zadissa, Genome Sequencing Platform and Whole Genome Assembly Team, Scott V. Edwards, Travis C. Glenn, Christopher J. Schneider, Jonathan B. Losos, Eric S. Lander, Matthew Breen, Chris P. Ponting, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (2011). The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals. Nature doi:10.1038/nature10390. Jounal LinkFREE PMC ARTICLE
• Shannon E Duke Becker, Rachael Thomas, Vladimir A Trifonov, Robert K Wayne, Alexander S Graphodatsky, Matthew Breen. (2011). Anchoring the dog to its relatives reveals new evolutionary breakpoints across 11 species of the Canidae and provides new clues for the role of B chromosomes. Chromosome Research 19: 685-708 (Journal link) PubMed link
• Andrea Y. Angstadt, Alison Motsinger-Reif, Rachael Thomas, William C. Kisseberth, C. Guillermo Couto, Dawn L. Duval, Dahlia M. Nielsen, Jaime F. Modiano, and Matthew Breen. (2011). Characterization of canine osteosarcoma by array comparative genomic hybridization and RT-qPCR: signatures of genomic imbalance in canine osteosarcoma parallel the human counterpart. Genes, Chromosomes, Cancer 50:859-874. PubMed link
• Benoit Hedan, Rachael Thomas, Alison Motsinger-Reif, Jérôme Abadie, Catherine André, John Cullen and Matthew Breen (2011). Molecular cytogenetic characterization of canine histiocytic sarcoma: A spontaneous model for human histiocytic cancer identifies deletion of tumor suppressor genes and highlights influence of genetic background on tumor behavior. BMC Cancer, 11:201. FREE PMC ARTICLE
• Milcah C Scott, Aaron L Sarver, Katherine J Gavin, Venugopal Thayanithy, David M Getzy, Robert A Newman, Gary R Cutter, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, William C Kisseberth, Lawrence E Hunter, Subbaya Subramanian, Matthew Breen, Jaime F. Modiano, (2011). Molecular subtypes of osteosarcoma identified by reducing tumor heterogeneity through an interspecies comparative approach. Bone 49:356-367. PubMed link
• Nanda K. Thudi, Sherry T. Shu, Chelsea K. Martin, Lisa G. Lanigan, Murali V.P. Nadella, Adrie vanBokhoven, Jillian L. Werbeck, Simmons K. Jessica, Sridhar Murahari, William C. Kisseberth, Matthew Breen, Christina Williams, Ching-Shih Chen, Laurie K. McCauley, Evan T. Keller, Thomas J. Rosol.(2011). Development of a brain metastatic canine prostate cancer cell line. Prostate 71:1251-1263. PUBMED LINK
• Thomas, R., E. L. Seiser, A. A. Motsinger-Reif, L. Borst, V. E. Valli, K. Kelley, S. E. Suter, D. Argyle, K. Burgess, J. Bell, K. Lindblad-Toh, J. F. Modiano and M. Breen (2011). "Refining tumor-associated aneuploidy through ‘genomic recoding’ of recurrent DNA copy number aberrations in 150 canine non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas." Leukemia and Lymphoma 52(7):1321-1335. PUBMED LINK
• Suter, S, Small, G.W., Seiser, E.L., Thomas, R, Breen, M, Richards, K.L. (2011). FLT3 mutations in canine acute lymphocytic leukemia. BMC Cancer 11:38. PUBMED LINKFREE PMC ARTICLE
• Cruz Cardona, J., Milner, R., Alleman, A.R., Williams, C., Vernau, W, Breen, M., Tompkins, M. (2011), BCR-ABL translocation in a dog with chronic monocytic leukemia. Veterinary Clinical Pathology 40:(1): 40-47[journal link] PUBMED LINK

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2010

• Ying Zheng, Arben Nace, Wei Chen, Krystal Watkins, Luke Sergott, Ying Homan, John L. Vandeberg, Matthew Breen, and Kurt Stenn (2010). Mature Hair Follicles Generated from Dissociated Cells: A Universal Mechanism of Folliculoneogenesis. Developmental Dynamics 239:2619-2626.[PUBMED LINK]
• Breen, M.  (2010). Clinical Genomics. Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Seventh Edition. Eds Ettinger and Feldman, Elsevier Chapter 6, p 28-30.
• Modiano, J.F. and Breen, M. (2010). Genetic Basis of Cancer. In Cancer management in Small Animal Practice. Henry, C. Ed. Saunders. Chapter 2, p10-15.
• Reitman ZJ, Olby NJ, Mariani CL, Thomas R, Breen M, Bigner DD, McLendon RE, Yan H. (2010). IDH1 and IDH2 hotspot mutations are not found in canine glioma. Int J Cancer. 127(1):245-246.

2009

• Thomas, R., Valli, V.E., Ellis, P., Bell, J., Karlsson, E.K., Cullen, J., Lindblad-Toh, K., Langford, C.F., Breen, M. Microarray-based cytogenetic profiling reveals recurrent and subtype-associated genomic copy number aberrations in feline sarcomas Chromosome Research 17:8 987-1000. [PUBMED LINK]
• Thomas, R, Rebbeck, C., Leroi, A.M., Burt, A, Breen, M. (2009). Extensive conservation of genomic imbalances in canine transmissible venereal tumors (CTVT) detected by microarray-based CGH analysis. Chromosome Research 7(17):927 - 934. [PUBMED LINK]
• Clare A. Rebbeck, Rachael Thomas, Matthew Breen, Armand M. Leroi,  Austin Burt. Origins and Evolution of a Transmissible Cancer. Evolution 63(9):2340-2349 [PUBMED LINK]
• Breen, M. (2009). Update on Genomics in Veterinary Oncology. Topics in Companion Animal Medicine. 24(3) 113-121. [PUBMED LINK]
• Rachael Thomas, Shannon E. Duke, Huixia J. Wang, Tessa E. Breen, Robert J. Higgins, Keith E. Linder, Peter Ellis, Cordelia F. Langford, Peter J. Dickinson, Natasha J. Olby and Matthew Breen (2009). ‘Putting our heads together’  - insights into genomic conservation between human and canine intracranial tumors. Journal of NeuroOncology 94(3):333-349 [PUBMED LINK]
• Thomas, R, Wang, H.J., Tsai, P.C., Langford, C.F., Fosmire,S.P., Jubala, C.M., Getzy, D.M., Cutter, G.R., Modiano, J.F., Breen, M. (2009). Influence of genetic background on tumor karyotypes: evidence for breed-associated cytogenetic aberrations in canine appendicular osteosarcoma. Chromosome Research 17:365-377. [PUBMED LINK]
• Tzu-yin Lin, Rachael Thomas, Pei-Chien Tsai, Matthew Breen, Cheryl A London (2009). Generation and characterization of a novel canine malignant mast cell line, CL1. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 127:114-124. [PUBMED LINK]

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2008

• Thomas, R., Duke, S.E., Karlsson, E.K., Evans, A., Ellis, P., Lindblad-Toh, K., Langford, C.F. and Breen, M. (2008). A genome assembly-integrated dog 1Mb BAC microarray: a cytogenetic resource for canine cancer studies and comparative genomic analysis. Cytogenetics and Genome Research 122:110-121. [PUBMED LINK]
• Young, A.C., Kirkness, E. and Breen, M. (2008). Tackling the characterization of canine chromosomal breakpoints with an integrated in-situ/in-silico approach: The canine PAR and PAB. Chromosome Research 16:1193-1202 [PUBMED LINK]
• Modiano, J. F. and M. Breen (2008). Shared pathogenesis of human and canine tumors - an inextricable link between cancer and evolution. Cancer Therapy (6) 239-246.
• Breen, M. Canine cytogenetics - from band to basepair. Cytogenet Genome Res 2008;120:50-60 [PUBMED LINK]
• Zaunbrecher GM, Dunne PW, Mir B, Breen M, Piedrahita JA. (2008). Enhancement of extra chromosomal recombination in somatic cells by affecting the ratio of homologous recombination (HR) to non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). Anim Biotechnol. 2008;19(1):6-21. [PUBMED LINK]
• Breen. M and Langford, C.F. (2008). Chromosome Structure and Function - Comparative Cytogenetics. In: Encyclopedia of the Human Genome. Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Nature Publishing Group, Hampshire, U.K.
• Breen, M. and Modiano, J. (2008). Evolutionarily Conserved Cytogenetic Changes in Hematologic Malignancies of Dogs and Humans – Man and his best friend share more than companionship. Chromosome Research 16:145–154. [PUBMED LINK]

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2007

• Thomas, R., Duke, S. Bloom, S., Breen, T,Feiste, E., Young, A., Seiser, E., Tsai, Pei Chien, Ellis, P., Langford, C, Karlsson, E., Mauceli, E., Lindblad-Toh, K., Breen. M. (2007). A cytogenetically characterized, genome anchored 10Mb BAC array for the domestic dog. J. Heredity 98 (5): 474-484. [PUBMED LINK]
• Fosmire SP, Thomas R, Jubala CM, Smith T, Wojcieszyn J, Getzy DM, Valli VEO, Helfand SC, Cutter GC, Breen M, Modiano JF. (2007). Inactivation of p16 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor in high-grade canine non-Hodgkin T cell lymphoma. Vet Path. 44(4): 467-478 [PUBMED LINK] *co-senior authors
• WC Kisseberth, P Nadella, M Breen, R Thomas, S Duke, CE Kosarek, S Murahari, W Vernau, AC Avery, MJ Burkhard, and TJ Rosol (2007). A novel canine lymphoma cell line: A translational and comparative model for lymphoma research. Leukemia Research 12:1709-1720. [PUBMED LINK]
• Modiano JF, Breen M, Valli VEO, Wojcieszyn, J.W, Cutter, G. (2007). Predictive Value of p16 or Rb Inactivation in a Model of Naturally Occurring Canine non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Leukemia 21(1): 184-187. [PUBMED LINK]
• Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Matthew J. Wakefield, Bronwen Aken, Chris T. Amemiya, Jean L. Chang, Shannon Duke (..and others), Matthew Breen, Paul B. Samollow, Eric S. Lander & Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (2007). Genome of the marsupial Monodelphis domestica reveals innovation in non-coding sequences. Nature 447, 167-177 [PUBMED LINK]
• Duke, S., Samallow, P., Mauceli, E., Lindblad-Toh, K., Breen, M. (2007). Cytogenetic BAC map of the genome of Monodelphis domestica.Chromosome Research 15:3610-370 [PUBMED LINK] *(Companion paper to the Monodelphis genome paper)
• Davidow, L.S., Breen, M., Samollow, P.B., Duke, S.E., McCarrey, J.R. and Lee, J.T. (2007). The Search for a Marsupial XIC Reveals a Break with Vertebrate Synteny. Chromosome Research 15:137-146. [PUBMED LINK] (Companion paper to the Monodelphis genome paper)
• Modiano JF and Breen M (2007). Genetic Factors in Cancer Etiology. Ch 1, p3-12 In Small Animal Clinical Oncology, 4th edition. Withrow SJ and Vail DM, eds. Elsevier: New York.

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2006

• Khanna, C. Lindblad-Toh, K., Vail, D. London, C. Bergamn, P. Barber, L. Breen, M., Kitchell, B., McNeil, E., Modiano, J.F., Niemi, S., Comstack, K.E., Ostrander, E., Westmoreland, S., Withrow S. 2006. The dog as a cancer model. Nature Biotech. (Letter to the Editor) 24:1065-6. [PUBMED LINK]
• Modiano JF, Breen M, Lana SE, Ehrhart EJ, Schaack J, Duke RC, Cutter GC, Bellgrau D (2006). Naturally occurring translational models for development of cancer gene therapy. Gene Therapy and Molecular Biology 10, 31-40, 2006
• Modiano JF and Breen M. Genetic Factors in Cancer Etiology. In Small Animal Clinical Oncology, 4th edition. Withrow SJ and Vail DM, eds. Elsevier: New York, 2006.

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2005

• Breen, M. and Thomas, R. Karyotype and Chromosomal Organization. In The Dog and its Genome. Ostrander EA, Giger U, Lindblad-Toh K, eds. Cold Spring Harbor Press:Cold Spring Harbor, 2005.
• Modiano JF, Breen M, London CA, Avery AC. Breed Specific Canine Lymphoproliferative Diseases. In The Dog and its Genome. Ostrander EA, Giger U, Lindblad-Toh K, eds. Cold Spring Harbor Press:Cold Spring Harbor, 2005.
• Rachael Thomas, Allyson Scott, Cordelia F. Langford, Susan P. Fosmire, Cristan M. Jubala, Travis D. Lorentzen, Christophe Hitte, Elinor K. Karlsson, Ewen Kirkness, Elaine A. Ostrander, Francis Galibert, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Jaime F. Modiano, and Matthew Breen. Construction of a 2-Mb resolution BAC microarray for CGH analysis of canine tumors. Genome Res. 2005;15 1831-1837 [PUBMED LINK]
• Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Claire M Wade, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Elinor K. Karlsson, David B. Jaffe, Michael Kamal, Michele Clamp, Jean L. Chang, Edward J. Kulbokas, III, Michael C. Zody, Evan Mauceli, Xiaohui Xie, Matthew Breen, Robert K. Wayne, Elaine A. Ostrander, Chris P. Ponting, Francis Galibert, Douglas R. Smith, Pieter J. deJong, Ewen Kirkness, Pablo Alvarez, Tara Biagi, William Brockman, Jonathan Butler, Chee-Wye Chin, April Cook, James Cuff, Mark J. Daly, David DeCaprio, Sante Gnerre, Manfred Grabherr, Manolis Kellis, Michael Kleber, Carolyne Bardeleben, Leo Goodstadt, Andreas Heger, Christophe Hitte, Lisa Kim, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Heidi G. Parker, John P. Pollinger, Stephen M. J. Searle, Nathan B. Sutter, Rachael Thomas and Caleb Webber, Broad Sequencing Platform members and Eric S. Lander . Genome sequence, comparative analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog, Nature 438, pp 803-819 - 8 December 2005. [PUBMED LINK]
• Jaime F. Modiano, Matthew Breen, Robert C. Burnett, Heidi G. Parker, Seidu Inusah, Rachael Thomas, Paul R. Avery, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Elaine A. Ostrander, Gary C. Cutter, and Anne C. Avery. Distinct B-Cell and T-Cell Lymphoproliferative Disease Prevalence among Dog Breeds Indicates Heritable Risk, Cancer Research 65: 5654-5661 - July 1st 2005. [PUBMED LINK]
• Dickerson, E.B., Thomas, R, Fosmire, S.P., Scott, A., Bianco, S.R., Wojcieszyn, J., Pettengill, M., Breen, M., Helfand, S.C., Modiano. J.F. (2005). Mutations of PTEN in Canine Hemangiosarcoma J. Vet Path 42 618-632. [PUBMED LINK]
• Thomson, S.A., Kennerly, E., Olby, N., Mickelson, J.R., Hoffmann, D.E., Dickinson, P.J., Gibson, G., Breen. M. (2005) Microarray analysis of differentially expressed genes of primary tumors in the canine central nervous system. J. Vet. Path. 42 550-558. [PUBMED LINK]
• Kennerly, E., Thomson, S, Olby, N., Breen, M., Gibson, G. Comparison of regional gene expression differences ion the brains of the domestic dog and human. Human Genomics 2004 Nov;1(6):435-43. [PUBMED LINK]

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2004

• Breen, M ., Hitte, C., Lorentzen, T., Thomas, R., Cadieu, E., Sabacan, L., Scott, A., Evanno, G., Parker, H.G., Kirkness, E., Hudson, R., Guyon, R., Mahairas, G.G., Gelfenbeybn, B., Fraser, C.M., André, C., Galibert, F., Ostrander, E.A. (2004). An Integrated 4300 Marker FISH/RH Map of the Canine Genome. BMC Genomics 5:65, 1-11 [PUBMED LINK]
• Fosmire, S.P., Dickerson, E.B., Scott, A., Bianco, S.R., Pettengill, M., Meylemans, H., Padilla, M., Frazer-Abel, A.A., Akhtar, N., Getzy, D.M., Wojcieszyn, J., Breen, M., Helfand, S.C., Modiano, J.F. (2004). Canine Malignant Hemangiosarcoma as a Model of Primitive Angiogenic Endothelium. Lab Invest. 84, 562-572. [PUBMED LINK]
• Akhtar, N, Padilla, M.L., Dickerson, E.B., Steinberg, H., Breen, M., Auerbach, R., Helfand, S.C. (2004). Interleuikin-12 inhibits tumor growth in a novel angiogenesis canine hemangiosarcom xenograft model. Neoplasia 6, 106-116 [PUBMED LINK]
• Comstock, K.E., Lingaas, F., Kirkness E.F, Hitte, C., Thomas, R., Breen, M., Moe, L, Galibert, F., Ostrander, E.A. (2004). A High Resolution Map of Canine Chromosome 5q14.3-33 Spanning Human Chromosome 17p11.2 Utilizing the 1.5 x Canine Genome Sequence. Mammalian Genome 15:544-551. [PUBMED LINK]
• Fosmire, S.P., Dickerson, E.B., Scott, A., Bianco, S.R., Pettengill, M., Meylemans, H., Padilla, M., Frazer-Abel, A.A., Akhtar, N., Getzy, D.M., Wojcieszyn, J., Breen, M., Helfand, S.C., Modiano, J.F. (2004). Canine Malignant Hemangiosarcoma as a Model of Primitive Angiogenic Endothelium. Lab Invest. 84, 562-572. [PUBMED LINK]
• Akhtar, N, Padilla, M.L., Dickerson, E.B., Steinberg, H., Breen, M., Auerbach, R., Helfand, S.C. (2004). Interleuikin-12 inhibits tumor growth in a novel angiogenesis canine hemangiosarcom xenograft model. Neoplasia 6, 106-116 [PUBMED LINK]

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2003

• Thomas, R., Fiegler, H., Ostrander, E.A., Galibert, F., Carter, N.P., Breen, M. (2003). A canine cancer gene microarray for CGH analysis of canine tumors. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 102:254-260.
• Thomas, R, Bridge, W., Benke, K., Breen, M. (2003). Isolation, characterization and chromosomal localization of 25 cancer related canine genes. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 102:249-253.
• Olby, N., Blot, S., Thibaud, J.L., Phillips, J.,Burr, J., Berg, J., Brown, T., Breen, M. Cerebellar cortical degeneration in adult American Staffordshire terriers. American Journal Veterinary Internal Medicine 18, 201-208. [PUBMED LINK]
• Rak, S.G., Drogemuller, C., Leeb, T., Quignon,P., Andre, C., Scott, A, Breen, M., Distl. O. (2003) Cloning and chromosomal assignment of 20 candidate genes for canine congenital sensorineural deafness by FISH and RH mapping. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 101:130-135.
• Lingaas, F., Comstock, K.E., Kirkness E.F., Sorensen, A., Aarskaug, T., Hitte, C., Nickerson, M,L, Moe, L, Schmidt, L.S., Thomas, R., Breen, M., Galibert, F., Zbar, B., Ostrander, E.A. A Mutation in the Canine BHD Gene is Associated with Hereditary Multifocal Renal Cystadenocarcinoma and Nodular Dermatofibrosis in the German Shepherd Dog. Human Molecular Genetics 12:3043-3053. [PUBMED LINK]
• Langford, C.F. and Breen, M. (2003). Chromosome Structure and Function - Comparative Cytogenetics. In: Nature Encyclopedia of the Human Genome. Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Nature Publishing Group, Hampshire, U.K. http://www.ehgonline.net/
• Tiret, L., Blot, S., Kessler, J.L., Gaillot, H., Breen, M., Panthier, J.J. (2003). Mapping of the cnm locus in Labrador retrievers, a canine homologue of the human autosomal forms of the centronuclear myopathy. Human Genetics 113:297-306. [PUBMED LINK]
• Thomas, R., Smith, K.C., Ostrander, E.A., Galibert, F., Breen, M. (2003). Chromosome Aberrations in Canine Multicentric Lymphomas Detected with Comparative Genomic Hybridisation and a Panel of Single Locus Probes. British Journal of Cancer 89:1530-1537.
• Spriggs, H.F., Holmes, N.G., Breen, M., Deloukas, P., Langford, C.F., Ross, M.T., Carter, N.P., Davis, M.E., Knights, C.E., Smith, A.E., Farr. C.J., McCarthy, L.C., Binns, M.M. (2003). Construction and integration of radiation-hybrid and cytogenetic maps of dog Chromosome X. Mammalian Genome 14(3):214-221. [PUBMED LINK]

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2002

• Breen, M. (2002). Equine clinical cytogenetics - human chromosomes sitting on horse chromosomes. (Invited Leader) Equine Veterinary Journal 34:110-111.
• Breen, M., Switonski, M., Binns, M.M. (2001). Cytogenetics and Physical Chromosome Maps: Chapter 11 in Genetics of the Dog. Ruvinsky and Sampson- eds. CAB International, Oxon, U.K.
• Breen, M., Jouquand S., Renier C., Mellersh C.S., Hitte C., Holmes N.G. , Cheron A., Suter N., Vignaux F., Bristow A.E., Priat C ., McCann E., Andre C., Boundy S., Gitsham P., Thomas R., Bridge W.L., Spriggs H.F., Ryder E.J., Curson A., Sampson J., Ostrander E.A., Binns M.M., and Galibert F. (2001). Chromosome-specific single locus FISH probes allow anchorage of an 1,800 marker integrated radiation-hybrid/ linkage map of the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) genome to all chromosomes. Genome Research 11:1784-1796.

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Selected Pre-2002

• Thomas, R., Smith, K.C., Gould, R., Gower, S.M., Binns, M.M., Breen, M. (2001). Molecular cytogenetic analysis of a novel high-grade T-lymphoblastic lymphoma demonstrating co-expression of CD3 and CD79a cell markers. Chromosome Research 8: 649-657.
• Thomas, R., Breen, M., Deloukas, P., Holmes, N.G. and Binns, M.M (2001). An integrated physical, comparative and radiation-hybrid map of dog chromosome five. Mammalian Genome 12: 371-375.
• Dunn, K.A., Thomas, R., Binns, M.M., Breen, M. (2000). Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (CGH) in Dogs - Application to the study of a Canine Glial Tumour Cell Line. The Veterinary Journal 160(1): 77-82.
• Leeb, T., Neumann, S., Deppe, A., Breen, M., Brenig, B. (2000). Genomic organization of the dog dystroglycan gene (DAG) locus on chromosome 20q15.1-q15.2. Genome Research 10:295-301.
• Binns, M.M., Swinburne, J.E., Breen, M. (2000). Molecular Genetics. Chapter 6 in 'Horse Genetics' , CAB International, Oxon, U.K. -ed A.T. Bowling.
• Thomas, R., Breen, M., Langford, C.F., and Binns, M.M. (1999). Zoo-FISH analysis of dog chromosome 5: identification of conserved synteny with human and cat chromosomes. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 87:4-10.
• Breen, M., Thomas, R., Binns, M.M., Carter, N.P. and Langford, C.F (1999). Reciprocal chromosome painting reveals detailed regions of synteny between the karyotypes of the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) and human. Genomics 61:145-155.
• Breen, M., Bullerdiek, J and Langford, C. (1999). The DAPI banded karyotype of the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) generated using chromosome specific paint probes. Chromosome Research 7:401-406 [+erratum vol 7:575]
• Schatzberg, S.J., Olby, N.J., Breen, M., Anderson, L.V.B., Langford, C.F., Dickens, H.F., Wilton, S.D., Zeiss, C.J., Binns, M.M., Kornegay, J.N.,Morris, G., Sharp, N.J.H. (1999). Molecular analysis of a spontaneous dystrophin 'knockout' dog. Neuromuscular Disorders 9:289-295.
• van der Sluis, B.J.A., Breen, M., Nanji, M., van Wolferen, M., de Jong, P., Binns, M.M., Pearson, P.L., Kuipers, J., Rothuizen, J., Cox, D.W.,Wijmenga, C., van Oost, B. (1999). Genetic mapping of the copper toxicosis locus in Bedlington terriers to dog chromosome 10, in a region syntenic to human chromosome region 2p13-16. Human Molecular Genetics 8:501-507.
• Breen, M., Langford, C.F., Carter, N.P., Holmes, N.G., Dickens, H.F., Thomas, R., Suter, N., Ryder, E.J., Pope, M. and Binns, M.M. (1999). FISH mapping and identification of canine chromosomes. Journal of Heredity 90:27-30.

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