RNA in cancer

GJ Goodall, VO Wickramasinghe - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
While the processing of mRNA is essential for gene expression, recent findings have
highlighted that RNA processing is systematically altered in cancer. Mutations in RNA …

Recent advances in targeted therapies in acute myeloid leukemia

RS Bhansali, KW Pratz, C Lai - Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common acute leukemia in adults. While survival
for younger patients over the last several decades has improved nearly sixfold with the …

Molecular international prognostic scoring system for myelodysplastic syndromes

E Bernard, H Tuechler, PL Greenberg… - NEJM …, 2022 - evidence.nejm.org
Background Risk stratification and therapeutic decision-making for myelodysplastic
syndromes (MDS) are based on the International Prognostic Scoring System–Revised (IPSS …

Prediction of risk for myeloid malignancy in clonal hematopoiesis

LD Weeks, A Niroula, D Neuberg, W Wong… - NEJM …, 2023 - evidence.nejm.org
Background Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) and clonal cytopenia of
undetermined significance (CCUS) are defined by somatic mutations in genes associated …

The longitudinal dynamics and natural history of clonal haematopoiesis

MA Fabre, JG de Almeida, E Fiorillo, E Mitchell… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal expansions driven by somatic mutations become pervasive across human tissues
with age, including in the haematopoietic system, where the phenomenon is termed clonal …

Eprenetapopt (APR-246) and Azacitidine in TP53-Mutant Myelodysplastic Syndromes

DA Sallman, AE DeZern, G Garcia-Manero… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Approximately 20% of patients with TP53-mutant myelodysplastic syndromes
(MDS) achieve complete remission (CR) with hypomethylating agents. Eprenetapopt (APR …

The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers

M Gerstung, C Jolly, I Leshchiner… - …, 2020 - research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk
Cancer develops through a process of somatic evolution1, 2. Sequencing data from a single
biopsy represent a snapshot of this process that can reveal the timing of specific genomic …

Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease

S Jaiswal, BL Ebert - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Somatic mutations accumulate in normal tissues as a function of time. The
great majority of these mutations have no effect on fitness, so selection does not act upon …

Genetic and non-genetic clonal diversity in cancer evolution

JRM Black, N McGranahan - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The observation and analysis of intra-tumour heterogeneity (ITH), particularly in genomic
studies, has advanced our understanding of the evolutionary forces that shape cancer …

Implications of TP53 allelic state for genome stability, clinical presentation and outcomes in myelodysplastic syndromes

E Bernard, Y Nannya, RP Hasserjian, SM Devlin… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Tumor protein p53 (TP53) is the most frequently mutated gene in cancer,. In
patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), TP53 mutations are associated with high …