List of publications: Weng-Onn Lui 1. Yap-Yee Chong, Lai

List of publications: Weng-Onn Lui
1. Yap-Yee Chong, Lai-Ching Lau, Weng-Onn Lui, Ping Lim, Elizabeth Lim, Puay-Hoon
Tan, Patrick Tan, and Yong-Yau Ong. A case of t(8;14) with total and partial trisomy 3 in
Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia.
Cancer Genet Cytogenet 103: 65-67 (1998).
2. Yap-Yee Chong, Gee-Chuan Wong, Lai-Ching Lau, Louise Knight, Ping Lim, WengOnn Lui, Min-Hwee Yong, Yeow-Tee Goh, and Patrick Tan. Acute promyelocytic
leukemia with a dicentric chromosome involving chromosomes 11, 17, and 18.
Cancer Genet Cytogenet 105: 69-73 (1998).
3. Yi Pan, Soili Kytölä, Filip Farnebo, Naining Wang, Weng-Onn Lui, Nina Nupponen,
Jorma Isola, Tapio, Visakorpi, Ulf S.R. Bergerheim, and Catharina Larsson.
Characterization of chromosomal abnormalities in prostate cancer cell lines by spectral
karyotyping.
Cytogenet Cell Genet 87: 225-232 (1999).
4. Steven G. Gray, Soili Kytölä, Weng-Onn Lui, Catharina Larsson, and Tomas J. Ekström:
Modulating IGFBP-3 expression by trichostatin A: Potential therapeutic role in the
treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Int J Mol Med 5: 33-21 (2000).
5. Weng-Onn Lui, Soili Kytölä, Lisa Ånfalk, Catharina Larsson, and Lars-Ove Farnebo.
Balanced Translocation t(3;7)(p25;q34): Another Mechanism of Tumorigenesis in
Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma?
Cancer Genet Cytogenet 119: 109-112 (2000).
6. Puay-Hoon Tan, Weng-Onn Lui, Patricia Ong, Lai-Ching Lau, Miriam Tao, and YapYee Chong. Cytogenetic Analysis of Invasive Breast Cancer: A Study of 27Asian
Patients.
Cancer Genet Cytogenet 121: 61-66 (2000).
7. Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, David M. Tanenbaum, Mark J. Daly, Ellen Winchester, Weng-Onn
Lui, Anuradha Villapakkam, Sasha E. Stanton, Catharina Larsson, Thomas J. Hudson,
Bruce E. Johnson, Eric S. Lander, and Matthew Meyerson. Loss-of heterozygosity
analysis of small cell lung carcinomas using single nucleotide polymorphism arrays.
Nat Biotechnol 18: 1001-1005 (2000).
8. Yi Pan, Weng-Onn Lui, Nina Nupponen, Catharina Larsson, Jorma Isola, Tapio
Visakorpi, Ulf S.R. Bergerheim, and Soili Kytölä. 5q11, 8p11, and 10q22 are recurrent
chromosomal breakpoints in prostate cancer cell lines.
Genes Chromosom Cancer 30: 187-195 (2001).
9. Hiro-omi Kanayama, Weng-Onn Lui, Masayuki Takahashi, Takushi Naroda, Darek
Kedra, Fung Ki Wong, Yoko Kuroki, Yutaka Nakahori, Catharina Larsson, Susumu
Kagawa, Bin Tean Teh. Association of constitutional translocation t(1q;3q) with familial
renal cell carcinoma.
J Med Genet 38: 165-170 (2001).
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10. Weng-Onn Lui, Johan Wedje, Edneia Tani, Otte Brosjö, Soili Kytölä and Catharina
Larsson. A highly aggressive primitive mesenchymal tumor with a new translocation
t(1;19)(q12;q13.2).
Cancer Genet Cytogenet 127: 128-133 (2001).
11. Imad Fadl-Elmula, Soili Kytölä, Yi Pan, Weng-Onn Lui, Gactano DeRienzo, Lars
Forsberg, Nils Mandahl, Ludmila Gorunova, Felix Mitelman, Ulf S.R. Bergerheim,
Sverre Heim, and Catharina Larsson. Characterization of chromosomal abnormalities in
uroepithelial carcinomas by G-banding, spectral karyotyping and FISH analysis.
Int J Cancer 92: 824-831 (2001).
12. Weng-Onn Lui, David M. Tanenbaum, and Catharina Larsson. High-level
amplification of 1p32-p33 and 2p22-24 in small cell lung carcinomas.
Int J Oncol 19: 451-457 (2001).
13. Weng-Onn Lui, JinDong Chen, Sven Glasker, Bernhad U Bender, Casey Madura, Sok
Kean Khoo, Eric Kort, Catharina Larsson, Harmut PH Neumann, and Bin Tean Teh.
Selective loss of chromosome 11 in pheochromocytomas associated with the VHL
syndrome.
Oncogene 21: 1117-1122 (2002).
14. Ke Yang, Weng-Onn Lui, Anju Zhang, Bjorn Skytting, Nils Mandahl, Catharina
Larsson, and Olle Larsson. Co-existence of SYT-SSX1 and SYT-SSX2 fusions in
synovial sarcomas.
Oncogene 21: 4181-4190 (2002).
15. Mattias Berglund, Gunilla Enblad, Emma Flordal, Weng-Onn Lui, Carin Backlin, Ulf
Thunberg, Christer Sundström, Göran Roos, Susanne V Allander, Martin Erlansson,
Richard Rosenquist, Catharina Larsson, and Svetlana Lagercrantz. Chromosomal
imbalances in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma detected by comparative genomic
hybridization.
Mod Pathol 15: 807-816 (2002).
16. Lai-Ching Lau, Lai-Heng Lee, William Hwang, Ping Lim, Weng-Onn Lui, and Yap Yee
Chong. Myelodysplastic syndrome with transformation to AML-M7 in a 46,XX male
patient.
Cancer Genet Cytogenet 136: 153-154 (2002).
17. Xiang Guo#, Weng-Onn Lui#, Chao-Nan Qian, Jin-Dong Chen, Steven Gray, Daniel
Rhodes, Brian Haab, Eric Stanbridge, Huimin Wang, Ming-Huang Hong, Hua-Qing Min,
Catharina Larsson, Bin Tean Teh. Identification of cancer-related genes in
nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell lines using DNA and mRNA expression profiling
analyses.
Int J Oncol 21: 1197-1204 (2002).
18. Min-Han Tan, Weng-Onn Lui, C Rajasoorya. A pair of monozygotic twins with
Klinefelter’s syndrome and early onset diabetes mellitus: A clinical and cytogenetic study.
Endocrinologist 12: 491-496 (2002).
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19. Mattias Berglund, Emma Flordal, Jacob Gullander, Weng-Onn Lui, Catharina Larsson,
Svetlana Lagercrantz, Gunilla Enblad. Molecular cytogenetic characterization of four
commonly used cell lines derived from Hodgkin lymphoma.
Cancer Genet Cytogenet 141: 43-48 (2003).
20. Wen-Hui Weng, Jan Åhlén, Weng-Onn Lui, Otte Brosjö, See-Tong Pang, Anette von
Rosen, Gert Auer, Olle Larsson, Catharina Larsson. Gain of 17q in malignant fibrous
histiocytoma is associated with a longer disease survival and a low risk of developing
distant metastasis.
Br J Cancer 89: 720-726 (2003).
21. Trisha Dwight, Srinivasan R Thoppe, Theodoros Foukakis, Weng-Onn Lui, Göran
Wallin, Anders Höög, Tony Frisk, Catharina Larsson, Jan Zedenius. Involvement of
PAX8-PPARγ in follicular thyroid tumors.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 88: 4440-4445 (2003).
22. Jindong Chen, Weng-Onn Lui, Michele D Vos, Geoffrey J Clark, Masayuki
Takahashi, Jacqueline Schoumans, Sok Kean Khoo, David Petillo, Todd Lavery, Jun
Sugimura, Dewi Astuti, Susumu Kagawa, Eamonn Maher, Catharina Larsson, Arthur S
Alberts, Hiro-omi Kanayama, Bin Tean Teh. The t(1;3) breakpoint-spanning genes
LSAMP and NORE1 are involved in clear cell renal cell carcinomas.
Cancer Cell 4: 405-413 (2003).
23. Wen-Hui Weng, Johan Wejde, Jan Åhlěn, See-Tong Pang, Weng-Onn Lui, Catharina
Larsson. Characterization of large chromosome markers in a malignant fibrous
histiocytoma by SKY, CGH and array CGH.
Cancer Genet Cytogenet 150: 27-32 (2004).
24. Appelskog IB, Ammerpohl O, Svechnikova IG, Lui WO, Almqvist PM, Ekström TJ.
Histone deacetylase inhibitor 4-phenylbutyrate suppresses GAPDH mRNA
expression in glioma cells.
Int J Oncol 24: 1419-1425 (2004).
25. Lovisa Bylund, Soili Kytölä, Weng-Onn Lui, Catharina Larsson, Günther Weber.
Analysis of the cytogenetic stability of the human embryonal kidney cell line 293 by
cytogenetic and STR profiling approaches.
Cytogenet Genome Res 106: 28-32 (2004).
26. Weng-Onn Lui, Theodoros Foukakis, Johan Lidén, Trisha Dwight, Srinivasan Thoppe,
Anders Höög, Jan Zedenius, Göran Wallin, Mark Reimers, Catharina Larsson: Expression
profiling of follicular thyroid carcinomas with a PAX8-PPARγ reveals a distinct
transcription signature.
Oncogene 24: 1467-1476 (2005).
27. Wen-Hui Weng, Jan Åhlén, Kristina Åström, Weng-Onn Lui and Catharina Larsson:
Prognostic impact of immunohistochemical expression of ezrin in highly malignant soft
tissue sarcomas.
Clin Cancer Res 11: 6198-6204 (2005).
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28. Theodoros Foukakis, Srinivasan Thoppe, Svetlana Lagercrantz, Trisha Dwight, Wen-Hui
Weng, Ann Svensson, Anders Höög, Todd Kroll, Jan Zedenius, Göran Wallin, Weng-Onn
Lui, Catharina Larsson: Molecular cytogenetic characterization of primary cultures and
established cell lines from non-medullary thyroid tumors.
Int J Oncol 26: 141-149 (2005).
29. Wen-Hui Weng, Mikael Lerner, Dan Grander, Jan Åhlén, Andrea Villablanca, See Tong
Pang, Johan Wejde, Weng-Onn Lui, Catharina Larsson: Loss of chromosome 13q is a
frequently acquired event in genetic progression of soft tissue sarcomas in the abdominal
cavity.
Int J Oncol 26: 5-16 (2005).
30. Daiana Vasilcanu, Wen-Hui Weng, Ada Girnita, Weng-Onn Lui, Radu Vasilcanu,
Magnus Axelson, Olle Larsson, Catharina Larsson and Leonard Girnita: The insulin like
growth factor-1 receptor inhibitor PPP produces only very limited resistance in tumor cells
exposed to long-term selection.
Oncogene 25: 3186-3195 (2006).
31. Theodoros Foukakis, Göran Wallin, Janos Geli, Amy Au, Bruce Robinson, Weng Onn
Lui, Jan Zedenius and Catharina Larsson: The NORE1A RAS effector is Suppressed in
PAX8-PPARgamma positive follicular thyroid tumors.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91: 1143-1149 (2006).
32. Jia-Jing Lee, Catharina Larsson, Weng-Onn Lui, Anders Höög and Henrik von Euler: A
dog pedigree with familial occurrence of multiple endocrine neoplasia.
Int J Oncol 29: 1173-1182 (2006).
33. Theodoros Foukakis, Arief Gusnanto, Amy YM Au, Anders Höög, Weng-Onn Lui,
Catharina Larsson, Göran Wallin and Jan Zedenius: A PCR-based expression signature of
malignancy in follicular thyroid tumors.
Endocrine-Related Cancer 14: 381-391 (2007).
34. Jia-Jing Lee, Theodoros Foukakis, Jamileh Hashemi, Lars Grimelius, Nils-Erik Heldin,
Göran Wallin, Christina Rudduck, Weng-Onn Lui, Anders Höög and Catharina Larsson:
Molecular cytogenetic profiles of novel and established human anaplastic thyroid
carcinoma models.
Thyroid 17: 289-301 (2007).
35. Weng-Onn Lui, Nader Pourmand, Bruce K. Patterson and Andrew Fire: Patterns of
known and novel small RNAs in human cervical cancer.
Cancer Res 67: 6031-43 (2007).
36. Subbaya Subramanian, Weng-Onn Lui, Cheng-Han Lee, Inigo Espinosa, Torsten O
Nielsen, Michael C Heinrich, Christopher L Corless, Andrew Z Fire, Matt van de Rijn:
miRNA expression signature of human sarcomas.
Oncogene 27: 2015-26 (2008).
37. Weng-Onn Lui, Lingchun Zeng, Rehmann Victoria, Seema Desphande, Maria
Tretiakova, Edwan Kaplan, Ingo Leibiger, Barbara Leibiger, Ulla Enberg, Anders Höög,
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Catharina Larsson and Todd G. Kroll: A CREB3L2-PPARγ Fusion Mutation Identifies a
Thyroid Signaling Pathway Regulated by Intra-membrane Proteolysis.
Cancer Res 68: 7156-64 (2008).
38. Zhihai Ma, Weng-Onn Lui, Andrew Fire, Soheil S Dadras: Sequencing small RNAs from
formalin fixed paraffin embedded melanoma and nodal specimens.
J Mol Diagn 11: 420-9 (2009).
39. Stefano Caramuta, Suzanne Egyhazi, Monica Rodolfo, Daniela Witten, Johan Hansson,
Catharina Larsson, Weng-Onn Lui: MicroRNA expression profiles associated with
mutational status and survival in malignant melanoma.
J Invest Dermatol 130: 2062-70 (2010).
40. Daniela Witten, Rob Tibshirani, Sam Guoping Gu, Andrew Fire, and Weng-Onn Lui:
Ultra-high throughput sequencing-based small RNA discovery and discrete statistical
biomarker analysis in a library of cervical tumors and match controls.
BMC Biology 8:58 (2010).
41. Jamileh Hashemi, Claire Worrall, Daiana Vasilcanu, Mårten Fryknäs, Luqman Sulaiman,
Mohsen Karimi, Wen-Hui Weng, Weng-Onn Lui, Christina Rudduck, Magnus Axelson,
Helena Jernberg-Wiklund, Leonard Girnita, Olle Larsson, Catharina Larsson. Molecular
characterization of acquired tolerance of tumor cells to Picropodophyllin (PPP).
PLoS ONE 6:e14757 (2011).
42. Pinar Akcakaya, Susanne Ekelund, Iryna Kolosenko, Stefano Caramuta, Deniz Özata,
Hong Xie, Ulrik Lindforss, Hans Olivecrona, and Weng-Onn Lui. miR-185 and miR-133b
deregulation are associated with overall survival and metastasis in colorectal cancer.
Int J Oncol 39: 311-8 (2011).
43. Deniz Özata, Stefano Caramuta, David Velázquez-Fernández Pinar Akcakaya, Hong Xie,
Anders Höög, Jan Zedenius, Martin Backdahl, Catharina Larsson, and Weng-Onn Lui:
The role of microRNA deregulation in the pathogenesis of adrenocortical carcinoma.
Endocrine-Related Cancer 18: 643-55 (2011).
44. Hong Xie, Yungang Zhao, Stefano Caramuta, Catharina Larsson, Weng-Onn Lui: miR205 expression promotes cell proliferation and migration of human cervical cancer cells.
PLoS ONE 7: e46990 (2012).
45. Zhangsen Huang, Mohammed Ferdous-Ur Rahman, Lei Jiang, Hong Xie, Hu Hu, WengOnn Lui, Nailin Li: Thrombin induces de novo protein synthesis of SDF1A but not
angiostatin in human platelets.
J Thromb Haemost 10: 2202-5 (2012).
46. Per Johnsson, Amanda Ackley, Linda Vidarsdottir, Weng-Onn Lui, Martin Corcoran,
Dan Grander and Kevin V. Morris: A pseudogene long non-coding RNA network regulates
PTEN transcription in human cells.
Nat Struct Mol Biol 20: 440-6 (2013).
47. Erik Berglund, David Berglund, Pinar Akcakaya, Mehran Ghaderi, Elisabetta Dare, PerOlof Berggren, Martin Köhler, Craig A. Aspinwall, Weng-Onn Lui, Jan Zedenius,
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Catharina Larsson, Robert Bränström. Evidence for Ca2+-regulated ATP release in
gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
Exp Cell Res 319: 1229-38 (2013).
48. Stefano Caramuta, Lin-Kiat Lee, Deniz Özata, Pinar Akcakaya, Hong Xie, Anders Höög,
Jan Zedenius, Martin Bäckdahl, Catharina Larsson and Weng-Onn Lui. Clinical and
functional impact of TARBP2 overexpression in adrenocortical carcinoma.
Endocrine-related cancer 20: 551-64 (2013).
49. Hogir Salim, Alexandros Arvanitis, Luigi de Petris, Lena Kanter, Petra Hååg, Anna
Zovko, Deniz Özata, Weng-Onn Lui, Lovisa Lundholm, Boris Zhivotovsky, Rolf
Lewensohn, Kristina Viktorsson: miR-214 is related to invasiveness of human non-small
cell lung cancer and directly regulates alpha protein kinase 2 expression.
Genes Chromosomes Cancer 52: 895-911 (2013).
50. Nevin Witman, Jan Heigwer, Barbara Thaler, Weng-Onn Lui and Jamie Ian Morrison.
miR-128 targets Islet1 and regulates hyperplasia during newt cardiac regeneration.
Dev Biol 383: 253-63 (2013).
51. Stefano Caramuta, Mattias Berglund, Lin-Kiat Lee, Deniz Özata, Pinar Akcakaya, Patrik
Georgii-Hemming, Hong Xie, Rose-Marie Amini, Gunilla Enblad, Catharina Larsson, and
Weng-Onn Lui. Role of microRNAs and microRNA machinery in the pathogenesis of
Diffuse large B-cell lymphomas.
Blood Cancer J 3: e152 (2013).
52. Erik Berglund, Sarojini Jayantha Kumari A. Ubhayasekera, Fredrik Karlsson, Pinar
Akcakaya, Warunika Aluthgedarac, Jan Åhlen, Robin Fröbom, Inga-Lena Nilsson, WengOnn Lui, Catharina Larsson, Jan Zedenius, Jonas Bergquist and Robert Bränström.
Intracellular concentration of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib in gastrointestinal
stromal tumor cells.
Anticancer Drugs 25: 415-22. (2014).
53. Hong Xie, Linkiat Lee, Stefano Caramuta, Anders Höög, Viveca Björnhagen, Catharina
Larsson and Weng-Onn Lui. microRNA expression patterns related to Merkel cell
polyomavirus infection in human Merkel cell carcinoma.
J Invest Dermatol 134: 507-17 (2014).
54. Cinzia Bersani, Anna Vilborg, Lidi Xu, Weng-Onn Lui and Klas G. Wiman. Wig-1
modulates the choice between cell cycle arrest or cell death through the p53 targets Fas and
14-3-3 sigma.
Oncogene 33: 4407-17 (2014).
55. David Velázquez-Fernández, Stefano Caramuta, Deniz M. Özata, Ming Lu, Anders Höög,
Martin Bäckdahl, Catharina Larsson, Weng-Onn Lui and Jan Zedenius. MicroRNA
expression patterns associated with hyperfunctioning and non-hyperfunctioning
phenotypes in adrenocortical adenomas.
Eur J Endocrinol 170: 583-91 (2014).
56. Erik Berglund, Pinar Akcakaya, David Berglund, Fredrik Karlsson, Vladana Vukojevic,
Linkiat Lee, Darko Bogdanovic, Weng-Onn Lui, Catharina Larsson, Jan Zedenius, Robin
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Fröbom and Robert Bränström. Functional role of Ca2+-activated Cl- channel DOG1/
TMEM16A in gastrointestinal stromal tumor cells.
Exp Cell Res 326: 315-25 (2014).
57. Hong Xie, Tiantian Liu, Na Wang, Viveca Björnhagen, Anders Höög, Catharina Larsson,
Weng-Onn Lui and Dawei Xu. TERT promoter mutations and gene amplification:
promoting TERT expression in Merkel cell carcinoma.
Oncotarget 5: 10048-57 (2014).
58. Pinar Akcakaya, Stefano Caramuta, Jan Åhlen, Mehran Ghaderi, Erik Berglund, Arne
Östman, Robert Bränström, Catharina Larsson and Weng-Onn Lui. MicroRNA
expression signatures of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: associations to imatinib resistance
and patient outcome.
Br J Cancer 111: 2091-102 (2014).
59. Abdul-Aleem Mohammad, Afsar Rahbar, Weng-Onn Lui, Anca Catrina, Giuseppe
Stragliotto, Lars Klareskog, Anders Hamsten, Lars Rydén, Koon-Chu Yaiw and Cecilia
Söderberg-Nauclér. Detection of circulating hcmv-miR-UL112-3p in patients with
glioblastoma, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus and healthy controls.
PLoS One 9: e113740 (2014).
60. Hong Xie, Linkiat Lee, Patrick Scicluna, Ersen Kavak, Catharina Larsson, Rickard
Sandberg and Weng-Onn Lui. Novel functions and targets of miR-944 in human cervical
cancer cells.
Int J Cancer 136: E230-41 (2015).
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