Project description:<p>Genetic factors play an important role in susceptibility to head and neck cancer and could also explain differences in response to treatment and outcome. The goal of this project is to investigate genetic variation involved in oral and oropharyngeal cancer susceptibility by performing the largest GWAS on these diseases, using a novel genotyping tool specifically designed for cancer studies by the OncoArray Network. This project encompasses data from approximately 6000 oral and pharynx cancer cases and 4000 controls derived from 12 epidemiological studies most of case-control design. The genotyping was centralized at the Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), and the epidemiological data harmonization and analysis were completed at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). This study was supported by National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) with direct funding to CIDR.</p>
Project description:RNAseq analysis of oral cancer and oral leukoplakia patients. Oral biopsies from 37 patients were obtained for sequencing using RNAseq including control, oral leukoplakia patients and oral cancer patients.
Project description:iTRAQ-based comparison of proteins derived from oral cells collected by brush biopsy. Protein abundance levels compared between oral pre-malignant cells, oral cancer cells and healthy normal cells, all collected from human patients. Two separate iTRAQ labeled biological replicate analyses were conducted.
