Publications

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Selected Publications

• Kim H, Kim S, Wade T, … Luebeck J^, Verhaak RGW. “Mapping extrachromosomal DNA amplifications during cancer progression.” Nature Genetics. 2024.

• Noorani I*, Luebeck J*, Rowan A, et al. “Oncogenic extrachromosomal DNA identification using whole-genome sequencing from formalin-fixed glioblastomas” Ann Oncol. 2024.

Luebeck J, Ng AWT, Galipeau PC, et al. “Extrachromosomal DNA in the cancerous transformation of Barrett’s oesophagus” Nature. 2023.

• Pang J*, Nguyen NP*, Luebeck J*, et al. “Extrachromosomal DNA in HPV-mediated oropharyngeal cancer drives diverse oncogene transcription.” Clinical Cancer Research. 2021.

• Dehkordi SR*, Luebeck J*, Bafna V. “FaNDOM: Fast Nested Distance-Based Seeding of Optical Maps.” Cell Patterns. 2021.

Luebeck J, Coruh C, Dehkordi SR, et al. “Integrated analysis of NGS and optical mapping resolves the complex structures of focal amplifications in cancer.” Nature Communications. 2020.

All publications

• Dehkordi SR, Wong ITL, Ni J, Luebeck J, et al. “Breakage fusion bridge cycles drive high oncogene number with moderate intratumoural heterogeneity.” Nature Communications. 2025.

• Pradella D, Zhang M, Gao R, … Luebeck J, … Ventura A. “Engineered extrachromosomal oncogene amplifications promote tumorigensis.” Nature. 2024.

• Bailey C, Pich O, Thol K, Watkins TBK, Luebeck J, et al. “Origins and Impact of Extrachromosomal DNA.” Nature. 2024.

• Hung KL, Jones MG, Wong ITL, Curtis EJ, Lange JT, He BJ, Luebeck J, et al. “Coordinated inheritance of extrachromosomal DNAs in cancer cells.” Nature. 2024.

• Tang J, Weiser NE, Wang G, … Luebeck J, … Chang HY. ““Enhancing transcription replication conflict targets ecDNA positive cancers.” Nature. 2024.

• Kim H, Kim S, Wade T, … Luebeck J^, Verhaak RGW. “Mapping extrachromosomal DNA amplifications during cancer progression.” Nature Genetics. 2024.

• Rose JC, Belk JA, Wong ITL, Luebeck J, et al. “Disparate pathways for extrachromosomal DNA biogenesis and genomic DNA repair” Cancer Discovery. 2024.

• Zhu K, Jones MG, Luebeck J, et al. “CoRAL accurately resolves extrachromosomal DNA genome structures with long-read sequencing” Genome Research. 2024.

• Lin MS, Jo SY, Luebeck J, et al. “Transcriptional immune suppression and upregulation of double stranded DNA damage and repair repertoires in ecDNA-containing tumors” eLife. 2024.

• Noorani I*, Luebeck J*, Rowan A, et al. “Oncogenic extrachromosomal DNA identification using whole-genome sequencing from formalin-fixed glioblastomas” Ann Oncol. 2024.

• Chapman OS, Luebeck J, Sridhar S, et al. “Circular extrachromosomal DNA promotes tumor heterogeneity in high-risk medulloblastoma” Nature Genetics. 2023.

• Agustinus A, Al-Rawi D, Dameracharla B, Raviram R, Jones BSCL, Stransky S, Scipioni L, Luebeck J, et al. “Epigenetic dysregulation from chromosomal transit in micronuclei” Nature. 2023.

• Raviram R, Raman A, Preissl S, Ning J, Wu S, Koga T, Zhang K, Brennan CW, Zhu C, Luebeck J, et al. “Integrated analysis of single-cell chromatin state and transcriptome identified common vulnerability despite glioblastoma heterogeneity” PNAS. 2023.

Luebeck J, Ng AWT, Galipeau PC, et al. “Extrachromosomal DNA in the cancerous transformation of Barrett’s oesophagus” Nature. 2023.

• Hung KL, Luebeck J, Dehkordi SR, et al. “Targeted profiling of human extrachromosomal DNA by CRISPR-CATCH” Nature Genetics. 2022.

• Javadzadeh S, Rajkumar U, Nguyen N, Sarmashghi S, Luebeck J, Shang J, Bafna V. “FastViFi: Fast and accurate detection of (Hybrid) Viral DNA and RNA.” NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 2022.

• Bergstrom EN, Luebeck J, Petljak M, et al. “Mapping clustered mutations in cancer reveals APOBEC3 mutagenesis of ecDNA.” Nature. 2022.

• Song K, Minami JK, Huang A, Dehkordi SR, Lomeli SH, Luebeck J, et al. “Plasticity of extrachromosomal and intrachromosomal BRAF amplifications in overcoming targeted therapy dosage challenges.” Cancer Discovery. 2022.

• Hung KL, Yost KE, Xie L, Shi Q, Helmsauer K, Luebeck J, et al. “ecDNA hubs drive cooperative intermolecular oncogene expression.” Nature. 2021.

• Pang J*, Nguyen NP*, Luebeck J*, et al. “Extrachromosomal DNA in HPV-mediated oropharyngeal cancer drives diverse oncogene transcription.” Clinical Cancer Research. 2021.

• Dehkordi SR*, Luebeck J*, Bafna V. “FaNDOM: Fast Nested Distance-Based Seeding of Optical Maps.” Cell Patterns. 2021.

Luebeck J, Coruh C, Dehkordi SR, et al. “Integrated analysis of NGS and optical mapping resolves the complex structures of focal amplifications in cancer.” Nature Communications. 2020.

• Kim H, Nguyen N, Turner K, Wu S, Gujar A, Luebeck J, et al. “Extrachromosomal DNA is associated with oncogene amplification and poor outcome across multiple cancers.” Nature Genetics. 2020.

• Rocca C, Rainaldi J, Sharma J, Shi Y, Haquang J, Luebeck J, Mali P, Cherqui S. “CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing of hematopoietic stem cells from patients with Friedreich’s ataxia.” Molecular Therapy – Methods & Clinical Development. 2020.

• Rajkumar U, Turner K, Luebeck J, et al. “EcSeg: Semantic Segmentation of Metaphase Images Containing Extrachromosomal DNA.” iScience. 2019.

• Wu S, Turner KM, Nguyen N, Raviram R, Erb M, Santini J, Luebeck J, et al. “Circular ecDNA promotes accessible chromatin and high oncogene expression.” Nature. 2019. (Publication subsequently featured in a New York Times article by Carl Zimmer).

• Deshpande V, Luebeck J, Nguyen ND, et al. “Exploring the landscape of focal amplifications in cancer using AmpliconArchitect.” Nature Communications. 2019.

• Nguyen ND, Deshpande V, Luebeck J, Mischel PS, Bafna V. “ViFi: accurate detection of viral integration and mRNA fusion reveals indiscriminate and unregulated transcription in proximal genomic regions in cervical cancer.” Nucleic Acids Research. 2018.

• Zhao D, Badur MG, Luebeck J, et al. “Combinatorial CRISPR-Cas9 Metabolic Screens Reveal Critical Redox Control Points Dependent on the KEAP1-NRF2 Regulatory Axis.” Molecular Cell. 2018.

• Gray VE, Hause RJ, Luebeck J, Shendure J, Fowler DM. “Quantitative Missense Variant Effect Prediction Using Large-Scale Mutagenesis Data.” Cell Systems. 2018.

• Shen JP, Zhao D, Sasik R, Luebeck J, et al. “Combinatorial CRISPR-Cas9 screens for de novo mapping of genetic interactions.” Nature Methods. 2017.