The annual meeting of the CoE Tumor Genetics was organised in scenic Hämeenlinna. Two days were filled with inspiring presentations, including by our PI Kirsi Rautajoki and workshops. It is always a pleasure to meet our colleagues from Taipale Lab, Nykter Lab Aaltonen Lab and Syöpärekisteri!

Congratulations to Lauri Sipilä et al. Aaltonen Lab for their recently published work on mutational signatures in sinonasal adenocarcinoma genesenvironment.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New paper from the Cancer regulation and Immunology group RautajokiLab published in Scientific Reports! Reporting risk variants associated with familial glioma in Finland. Collaboration with Aaltonen lab and Nykter Lab from the CoE Tumor Genetics. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Untangling the factors that increase the risk of cancer is difficult. Karri Seppä from Syöpärekisteri helps clarify the impact of exposures on cancer risk in our latest blog post. tumorgenetics.blog/2024/06/07/sub…

Lynch syndrome carries a significant increase in a person's cancer risk. In a paper published this month, Lauri Sipilä et al. have demonstrated the use of genetic and clinical data to identify those at risk of disease. link.springer.com/article/10.100… Aaltonen Lab FinnGen

Now out nature, our paper on HiDEF-seq: single-molecule DNA sequencing that resolves single-strand changes (mismatches and damage)! go.nature.com/3KG7Njh

Huge congratulations to Professor Lauri Aaltonen for receiving the 2024 Anders Jahre Award for Medical Research! aka.fi/en/about-us/wh…

Congratulations to Samantha Martin et al for the published paper in Human Molecular Genetics! academic.oup.com/hmg/advance-ar… #lynchsyndrome #colorectalcancer

New blog from the Center of Excellence in Tumor Genetics! Studying the Regulatory Genome by Maritta Räisänen of the Aaltonen Lab Medicine and Health, University of Helsinki University of Helsinki

There's a new blog from the CoE in Tumor Genetics! "On our way to understanding the treatment resistance of Prostate Cancer" #ProstateCancer tumorgenetics.blog/2024/10/15/on-…

New Paper published! Cancer incidence following non-neoplastic medical conditions: a prospective population-based cohort study (Lauri Sipila et al). Syöpärekisteri CoE Tumor Genetics medicaljournalssweden.se/actaoncologica…

New Blog from the CoE Tumor Genetics "Transcription Factor Footprinting with Fiber-Seq"! University of Helsinki Medicine and Health, University of Helsinki #tumorgenetics tumorgenetics.blog/2024/11/08/tra…

Päivi Nummi, a PhD student with Aaltonen Lab, will present their work, ‘Cancer and mobile DNA’, during an Afternoon in the Science Basement. When: 11th of December, 2024 at 17:30-19:00 Helsinki time (EEST) Where: Oodi Library, 3rd floor Saarikoski (Töölönlahdenkatu 4, Helsinki)

Lauri Aaltonen accepts the Jahre Award for #MedicalResearch at the University of Oslo. Professor Aaltonen and Professor Helleday (Karolinska) share the Award for their discoveries of mechanisms that contribute to #cancer development in humans. photo credit: Jarli&Jordan/UiO

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New Blog from the Nykter group, CoE Tumor Genetics is out! #spatialtranscriptomics #cancerresearch tumorgenetics.blog/2024/12/12/eat…

Congratulations to Lauri Sipilä for his defense and completion of his PhD! His thesis "Finnish Healthcare Registries in the study of Cancer Etiology" was carried out in the Aaltonen group with active collaboration with the Finnish Cancer Registry. Well done Lauri! #PhD

We are excited to share new results from Vilja Jokinen et al. Aaltonen Lab "Activation of FGFR genes by genetic and epigenetic alterations in uterine leiomyomas" nature.com/articles/s4427…

Is it clinically relevant to differentiate between different causes of the same mutations? Samantha Martin and Kristiina Rajamäki Aaltonen Lab explore the different sources of common mutations in colorectal cancers to look for clues. tumorgenetics.blog/2025/03/18/eve…

New Paper Published! nature.com/articles/s4138…