I am interested in virus-associated cancers, notably Burkitt Lymphoma and Kaposi sarcoma. Both are common in Africa. These are personal views.Joined March 2019
Super excited to share our paper “A genome-wide association study identifies an African-specific locus on chromosome 21q22.12 associated with Burkitt lymphoma risk and survival”. This work should encourage more studies to understand the genetic basis of BL nature.com/articles/s4137…
Joint analysis of Burkitt tumors from Africa, US, Europe, and Latin America continents confirm confirms DNA methylation epitypes of Burkitt lymphoma with distinct molecular and clinical features. Regardless of geography. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40338627/
Diagnosing Burkitt Lymphoma in Sub-Saharan Africa by Sequencing of Circulating Tumor DNA: A Comparative Microcostin… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40209317/- Dr. Morrell shows that liquid biopsy is feasible for Burkitt lymphoma diagnosis, but we need to increase scale #diagnoseallBLcases#AIREAL
Subtyping Burkitt Lymphoma by DNA Methylation - by studying Burkitt tumors from Europe and Africa together, we confirm that EBV is the major driver of biological variation in BL, and discover additional variation in both EBV positive and negative BL. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40192513/
CIFF2025 - BURKITT | Solas Nua I enjoyed seeing this documentary, which tells Burkitt’s story of discovery of his eponymous disease. Careful observation, enquiring mind, and sharing results with passion opened up the field of viral oncology! Asante Sana! solasnua.org/events/ciff202…
Happy to share our paper in @NatureComms with Oscar Florez-Vargas @oflorezvargas and team! We explore a VNTR as a functional GWAS lead for bladder and many other cancers, and show mechanism in cancer, telomere length, and longevity nature.com/articles/s4146…
Attending ASH24- talks on Burkitt lymphoma are sparse, but happy to note that molecular data support presence of age-specific patterns originally suspected from analysis of density plots of BL in the SEER registry databases.
It was a pleasure to host Ms. Carole Metekoua to deliver a departmental seminar on Burkitt lymphoma epidemiology in South Africa 🇿🇦. Great collaboration between US and South African scientists.
Really thrilled to attend a talk by Carole Motekoa presenting trends of Burkitt lymphoma in South Africa. Great work, which I look forward to seeing in print.
Super excited to receive a copy of the WHO Classification of Tumors, Haematolymphoid Tumors, 5th Edn. Was honored to contribute to the chapter on Burkitt Lymphoma. The new thing is that EBV defines molecular subtypes of BL better than geography or clinical type. @NCI_Training 🙏
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