The Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations and Gene Fusions in Cancer is a free-access database devoted to chromosomes, genes, and cancer. It was first published in 1983 as a book named "Catalog of Chromosome aberrations in Cancer" in the Journal of Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, containing 3,844 cases.[1] Subsequent editions of the Catalog were published 1985 (5,345 cases),[2] 1988 (9,069 cases),[3] 1991 (14,141 cases),[4] 1994 (22,076 cases),[5] and 1998 (30,541 cases).[6] In 2000, it became an online database on open access hosted by the NCI (National Cancer Institute).
The information in the Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations and Gene Fusions in Cancer relates cytogenetic changes and their genomic consequences, in particular gene fusions, to tumor characteristics, based either on individual cases or associations. All the data have been manually culled from the literature by Felix Mitelman in collaboration with Bertil Johansson and Fredrik Mertens.
"A Goldmine of Cytogenetic Data Linked to Cancer" (Center for Biomedical Informatics, National Cancer Institute 2023)
"Taking in consideration all the progress made in cancer cytogenetics, it would have been much slower without the Mitelman database."[7]
The Mitelman Database is supported by NCI (National Cancer Institute), the Swedish Cancer Society, and the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation. The database is updated quarterly in January, April, July, and October.
The database is available online (https://mitelmandatabase.isb-cgc.org) for searches related to cases cytogenetics, gene fusions, clinical associations, structural or numerical recurrent aberrations, and references.
The database was last updated on October 15, 2024:
- Cytogenetic cases:78,294
- Unique cytogenetic aberrations: 49,122
- Unique gene fusions: 34,096
- Genes involved: 14,078
See also
edit- Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology
- COSMIC cancer database
- Ensembl genome database project
- Entrez Gene
- GenBank
- Gene Wiki
- HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee
- International Agency for Research on Cancer
- International Classification of Diseases for Oncology
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
- UCSC Genome Browser
References
edit- ^ Mitelman, Felix (1983). "Catalog of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer". Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 36 (1–2): 1–3. doi:10.1159/000131930. PMID 6627995.
- ^ Mitelman, Felix (1985). Catalog of chromosome aberrations in cancer (2nd ed.). New York: Liss. p. 707. ISBN 0-8451-2405-6.
- ^ Mitelman, Felix (1988). Catalog of chromosome aberrations in cancer (3rd ed.). New York: Liss. p. 1146. ISBN 0-8451-4248-8.
- ^ Mitelman, Felix (1991). Catalog of chromosome aberrations in cancer (4th ed.). New York: Wiley-Liss. p. 1986. ISBN 0-471-56087-1.
- ^ Mitelman, Felix (1994). Catalog of chromosome aberrations in cancer (5th ed.). New York: Wiley-Liss. p. 4252. ISBN 0-471-11183-X.
- ^ Mitelman, Felix (1998). Catalog of chromosome aberrations in cancer '98 (6th ed.). New York: Wiley-Liss. ISBN 0-471-17603-6.
- ^ "Cancer Cytogenomics Resources".
- ^ "Mitelman Database: About". Mitelman Database: Chromosome Aberrations and Gene Fusions in Cancer. Retrieved 8 Nov 2024.