Katherine L. Nathanson
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department: Medicine
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
351 BRB II/III
421 Curie Blvd
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
421 Curie Blvd
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-662-4740
Email:
knathans@exchange.upenn.edu
knathans@exchange.upenn.edu
Education:
B.A. (Biology)
Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 1987.
M.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1993.
Permanent linkB.A. (Biology)
Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 1987.
M.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1993.
Description of Research Expertise
Dr. Nathanson’s research focuses on the genetics of human cancer, both germline changes which confer susceptibility to cancer and somatic genetic changes associated with outcome.Her research projects fall into several areas:
1) Identification and characterization of germline genetic changes associated with breast cancer susceptibility. These projects utilize two sample sets, a large clinical database of high risk breast cancer patients and a case-control study of white and black patients with breast cancer. Currently the projects in the laboratory focus on resequencing of BRCA1-associated genes as candidate breast cancer susceptibility genes in patients with high risk breast cancer and studying copy number variation as associated with potential susceptibility to high risk breast cancer in families with multiple cases of breast cancer.
2) Identification of genetic changes associated with testicular cancer susceptibility in case-control sample set. Dr. Nathanson recently completed a successful genome wide association study in testicular cancer, and is in the process of designing and doing a number of follow-up studies.
3) Identification of somatic genetic markers in melanoma as determinants of response to therapy. The projects in the laboratory focus on several aspects of melanoma genetics including genotyping patients to determine targeted therapy selection, using genetics and genomics to sub-set melanomas, as well as understand response to therapy, and identify novel genes important in melanoma progression.
Selected Publications
Krepler C, Chunduru SK, Halloran MB, He X, Xiao M, Vultur AM, Villanueva J, Mitsuuchi Y, Neiman EM, Benetatos C, Nathanson KL, Amaravadi R, Pehamberger H, McKinlay M, Herlyn M.: The novel SMAC mimetic Birinapant exhibits potent activity against human melanoma cells. Clin Cancer Res Feb 2013 Notes: Epub ahead of print.Guidugli L, Pankratz VS, Singh N, Thompson J, Erding CA, Engel C, Schmutzler R, Domchek S, Nathanson K, Radice P, Singer C, Tonin PN, Lindor NM, Goldgar DE, Couch FJ.: A classification model for BRCA2 DNA binding domain missense variants based on homology directed repair activity. Cancer Res. 73(1): 267-75, Janurary 2013.
Chen F, Chen GK, Stram DO, Millikan RC, Ambrosone CB, John EM, Bernstein L, Zheng W, Palmer JR, Hu JJ, Rebbeck TR, Ziegler RG, Nyante S, Bandera EV, Ingles SA, Press MF, Ruiz-Narvaez EA, Deming SL, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Demichele A, Chanock SJ, Blot W, Signorello L, Cai Q, Li G, Long J, Huo D, Zheng Y, Cox NJ, Olopade OI, Ogundiran TO, Adebamowo C, Nathanson KL, Domchek SM, Simon MS, Hennis A, Nemesure B, Wu SY, Leske MC, Ambs S, Hutter CM, Young A, Kooperberg C, Peters U, Rhie SK, Wan P, Sheng X, Pooler LC, Van Den Berg DJ, Le Marchand L, Kolonel LN, Henderson BE, Haiman CA.: A genome-wide association study of breast cancer in women of African ancestry. Hum Genet. 132(1): 39-48, January 2013.
Fung C, Vaughn DJ, Mitra N, Ciosek SL, Vardhanabhuti S, Nathanson KL, Kanetsky PA.: Chemotherapy refractory testicular germ cell tumor is associated with a variant in Armadillo Repeat gene deleted in Velco-Cardio-Facial syndrome (ARVCF). Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 3: 163, December 2012.
Domchek SM, Tang JB, Stopfer J, Lilli DR, Hamel N, Tischkowitz M, Monteiro AN, Messick TE, Powers J, Yonker A, Couch FJ, Goldgar DE, Davidson HR, Nathanson KL, Foulkes W, Greenberg RA.: Biallelic Deleterious BRCA1 Mutations in a Woman with Early-Onset Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Discov Dec 2012.
Stevens KN, Wang X, Fredericksen Z, Pankratz VS, Greene MH, Andrulis IL, Thomassen M, Caligo M; Swedish Breast Cancer Study, Sweden (SWE-BRCA), Nathanson KL, Jakubowska A, Osorio A, Hamann U, Godwin AK, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Southey M, Buys SS, Singer CF, Hansen TV, Arason A, Offit K, Piedmonte M, Montagna M, Imyanitov E, Tihomirova L, Sucheston L, Beattie M; HEreditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Group Netherlands (HEBON); German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (GC-HBOC), Neuhausen SL; CONsorzio Studi ITaliani sui Tumori Ereditari Alla Mammella (CONSIT Team), Szabo CI; kConFab, Simard J, Spurdle AB, Healey S, Chen X, Rebbeck TR, Easton DF, Chenevix-Trench G, Antoniou AC, Couch FJ. : Evaluation of chromosome 6p22 as a breast cancer risk modifier locus in a follow-up study of BRCA2 mutation carriers. Breast Cancer Res Treat 136(1): 295-302, November 2012.
Domchek SM, Jhaveri K, Patil S, Stopfer JE, Hudis C, Powers J, Stadler Z, Goldstein L, Kauff N, Khasraw M, Offit K, Nathanson KL, Robson M.: Risk of metachronous breast cancer after BRCA mutation-associated ovarian cancer. Cancer 10: 1002, November 2012 Notes: Epub ahead of print.
Lang SS, Zager EL, Coyne TM, Nangunoori R, Kneeland JB, Nathanson KL.: Hybrid peripheral nerve sheath tumor. J Neurosurg 117(5): 897-901, November 2012.
Ding YC, McGuffog L, Healey S, Friedman E, Laitman Y, Paluch-Shimon S, Kaufman B; for SWE-BRCA, Liljegren A, Lindblom A, Olsson H, Kristoffersson U, Stenmark-Askmalm M, Melin B, Domchek SM, Nathanson KL, Rebbeck TR, Jakubowska A, Lubinski J, Jaworska K, Durda K, Gronwald J, Huzarski T, Cybulski C, Byrski T, Osorio A, Cajal TR, Stavropoulou AV, Benítez J, Hamann U; for HEBON, Rookus M, Aalfs CM, de Lange JL, Meijers-Heijboer HE, Oosterwijk JC, van Asperen CJ, Gómez García EB, Hoogerbrugge N, Jager A, van der Luijt RB; for EMBRACE, Easton DF, Peock S, Frost D, Ellis SD, Platte R, Fineberg E, Evans DG, Lalloo F, Izatt L, Eeles R, Adlard J, Davidson R, Eccles D, Cole T, Cook J, Brewer C, Tischkowitz M, Godwin AK, Pathak H; for GEMO Study Collaborators, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sinilnikova OM, Mazoyer S, Barjhoux L, Léoné M, Gauthier-Villars M, Caux-Moncoutier V, de Pauw A, Hardouin A, Berthet P, Dreyfus H, Ferrer SF, Collonge-Rame MA, Sokolowska J, Buys S, Daly M, Miron A, Terry MB, Chung W, John EM, Southey M, Goldgar D, Singer CF, Tea MK, Gschwantler-Kaulich D, Fink-Retter A, Hansen TV, Ejlertsen B, Johannsson OT, Offit K, Sarrel K, Gaudet MM, Vijai J, Robson M, Piedmonte MR, Andrews L, Cohn D, Demars LR, Disilvestro P, Rodriguez G, Toland AE, Montagna M, Agata S, Imyanitov E, Isaacs C, Janavicius R, Lazaro C, Blanco I, Ramus SJ, Sucheston L, Karlan BY, Gross J, Ganz PA, Beattie MS, Schmutzler RK, Wappenschmidt B, Meindl A, Arnold N, Niederacher D, Preisler-Adams S, Gadzicki D, Varon-Mateeva R, Deissler H, Gehrig A, Sutter C, Kast K, Nevanlinna H, Aittomäki K, Simard J; for KConFab Investigators, Spurdle AB, Beesley J, Chen X, Tomlinson GE, Weitzel J, Garber JE, Olopade OI, Rubinstein WS, Tung N, Blum JL, Narod SA, Brummel S, Gillen DL, Lindor N, Fredericksen Z, Pankratz VS, Couch FJ, Radice P, Peterlongo P, Greene MH, Loud JT, Mai PL, Andrulis IL, Glendon G, Ozcelik H; for OCGN, Gerdes AM, Thomassen M, Jensen UB, Skytte AB, Caligo MA, Lee A, Chenevix-Trench G, Antoniou AC, Neuhausen SL; on behalf of Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA).: A non-synonymous polymorphism in IRS1 modifies risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers in BRCA1 and ovarian cancer in BRCA2 mutation carriers. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Prev. 8: 1362-1370, August 2012.
Kirchhoff T, Gaudet MM, Antoniou AC, McGuffog L, Humphreys MK, Dunning AM, Bojesen SE, Nordestgaard BG, Flyger H, Kang D, Yoo KY, Noh DY, Ahn SH, Dork T, Schürmann P, Karstens JH, Hillemanns P, Couch FJ, Olson J, Vachon C, Wang X, Cox A, Brock I, Elliott G, Reed MW, Burwinkel B, Meindl A, Brauch H, Hamann U, Ko YD; GENICA Network, Broeks A, Schmidt MK, Van 't Veer LJ, Braaf LM, Johnson N, Fletcher O, Gibson L, Peto J, Turnbull C, Seal S, Renwick A, Rahman N, Wu PE, Yu JC, Hsiung CN, Shen CY, Southey MC, Hopper JL, Hammet F, Van Dorpe T, Dieudonne AS, Hatse S, Lambrechts D, Andrulis IL, Bogdanova N, Antonenkova N, Rogov JI, Prokofieva D, Bermisheva M, Khusnutdinova E, van Asperen CJ, Tollenaar RA, Hooning MJ, Devilee P, Margolin S, Lindblom A, Milne RL, Arias JI, Zamora MP, Benítez J, Severi G, Baglietto L, Giles GG; kConFab; AOCS Study Group, Spurdle AB, Beesley J, Chen X, Holland H, Healey S, Wang-Gohrke S, Chang-Claude J, Mannermaa A, Kosma VM, Kauppinen J, Kataja V, Agnarsson BA, Caligo MA, Godwin AK, Nevanlinna H, Heikkinen T, Fredericksen Z, Lindor N, Nathanson KL, Domchek SM; SWE-BRCA, Loman N, Karlsson P, Stenmark Askmalm M, Melin B, von Wachenfeldt A; HEBON, Hogervorst FB, Verheus M, Rookus MA, Seynaeve C, Oldenburg RA, Ligtenberg MJ, Ausems MG, Aalfs CM, Gille HJ, Wijnen JT, Gómez García EB; EMBRACE, Peock S, Cook M, Oliver CT, Frost D, Luccarini C, Pichert G, Davidson R, Chu C, Eccles D, Ong KR, Cook J, Douglas F, Hodgson S, Evans DG, Eeles R, Gold B, Pharoah PD, Offit K, Chenevix-Trench G, Easton DF; BCAC/CIMBA.: Breast cancer risk and 6q22.33: combined results from Breast Cancer Association Consortium and Consortium of Investigators on Modifiers of BRCA1/2. PLoS One 6: e35706, July 2012.