Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), already among the deadliest epithelial
malignancies, is rising in both incidence and contribution to overall cancer deaths. Decades …

Mutational signatures: emerging concepts, caveats and clinical applications

G Koh, A Degasperi, X Zou, S Momen… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing has brought the cancer genomics community into new territory.
Thanks to the sheer power provided by the thousands of mutations present in each patient's …

Somatic genomic changes in single Alzheimer's disease neurons

MB Miller, AY Huang, J Kim, Z Zhou, SL Kirkham… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Dementia in Alzheimer's disease progresses alongside neurodegeneration,,–, but the
specific events that cause neuronal dysfunction and death remain poorly understood. During …

Mechanisms of APOBEC3 mutagenesis in human cancer cells

M Petljak, A Dananberg, K Chu, EN Bergstrom… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The APOBEC3 family of cytosine deaminases has been implicated in some of the most
prevalent mutational signatures in cancer,–. However, a causal link between endogenous …

Chromothripsis drives the evolution of gene amplification in cancer

O Shoshani, SF Brunner, R Yaeger, P Ly… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Focal chromosomal amplification contributes to the initiation of cancer by mediating
overexpression of oncogenes,–, and to the development of cancer therapy resistance by …

The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer

LB Alexandrov, J Kim, NJ Haradhvala, MN Huang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Somatic mutations in cancer genomes are caused by multiple mutational processes, each of
which generates a characteristic mutational signature. Here, as part of the Pan-Cancer …

Molecular classification of breast cancer

JYS Tsang, MT Gary - Advances in anatomic pathology, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Cancer classification aims to provide an accurate diagnosis of the disease and prediction of
tumor behavior to facilitate oncologic decision making. Traditional breast cancer …

The landscape of genomic alterations across childhood cancers

SN Gröbner, BC Worst, J Weischenfeldt, I Buchhalter… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Pan-cancer analyses that examine commonalities and differences among various cancer
types have emerged as a powerful way to obtain novel insights into cancer biology. Here we …

Analysis of the prevalence of microsatellite instability in prostate cancer and response to immune checkpoint blockade

W Abida, ML Cheng, J Armenia, S Middha… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The anti–programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) antibody pembrolizumab is
approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of microsatellite …

Proteogenomics of non-smoking lung cancer in East Asia delineates molecular signatures of pathogenesis and progression

YJ Chen, TI Roumeliotis, YH Chang, CT Chen, CL Han… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Summary Lung cancer in East Asia is characterized by a high percentage of never-smokers,
early onset and predominant EGFR mutations. To illuminate the molecular phenotype of this …