Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …

A practical guide to cancer subclonal reconstruction from DNA sequencing

M Tarabichi, A Salcedo, AG Deshwar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Subclonal reconstruction from bulk tumor DNA sequencing has become a pillar of cancer
evolution studies, providing insight into the clonality and relative ordering of mutations and …

[HTML][HTML] Lineage tracing reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity, and paths of tumor evolution

D Yang, MG Jones, S Naranjo, WM Rideout, KHJ Min… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor evolution is driven by the progressive acquisition of genetic and epigenetic
alterations that enable uncontrolled growth and expansion to neighboring and distal tissues …

Clonal evolution of acute myeloid leukemia revealed by high-throughput single-cell genomics

K Morita, F Wang, K Jahn, T Hu, T Tanaka… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Clonal diversity is a consequence of cancer cell evolution driven by Darwinian selection.
Precise characterization of clonal architecture is essential to understand the evolutionary …

Computational immunogenomic approaches to predict response to cancer immunotherapies

V Addala, F Newell, JV Pearson, A Redwood… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer immunogenomics is an emerging field that bridges genomics and immunology. The
establishment of large-scale genomic collaborative efforts along with the development of …

Refining colorectal cancer classification and clinical stratification through a single-cell atlas

AM Khaliq, C Erdogan, Z Kurt, SS Turgut, MW Grunvald… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) consensus molecular subtypes (CMS) have different
immunological, stromal cell, and clinicopathological characteristics. Single-cell …

Therapy sculpts the complex interplay between cancer and the immune system during tumour evolution

K Thol, P Pawlik, N McGranahan - Genome Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Cancer development is an evolutionary process. A key selection pressure is exerted by
therapy, one of the few players in cancer evolution that can be controlled. As such, an …

Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from genome-wide somatic mutations in clonal samples

THH Coorens, M Spencer Chapman, N Williams… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Phylogenetic trees are a powerful means to display the evolutionary history of species,
pathogens and, more recently, individual cells of the human body. Whole-genome …

SCARLET: single-cell tumor phylogeny inference with copy-number constrained mutation losses

G Satas, S Zaccaria, G Mon, BJ Raphael - Cell systems, 2020 - cell.com
A small number of somatic mutations drive the development of cancer, but all somatic
mutations are markers of the evolutionary history of a tumor. Prominent methods to construct …

CellPhy: accurate and fast probabilistic inference of single-cell phylogenies from scDNA-seq data

A Kozlov, JM Alves, A Stamatakis, D Posada - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
We introduce CellPhy, a maximum likelihood framework for inferring phylogenetic trees from
somatic single-cell single-nucleotide variants. CellPhy leverages a finite-site Markov …