Cancers make their own luck: theories of cancer origins

A Jassim, EP Rahrmann, BD Simons… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer has been a leading cause of death for decades. This dismal statistic has increased
efforts to prevent the disease or to detect it early, when treatment is less invasive, relatively …

Gene–environment interactions and their impact on human health

SJ Virolainen, A VonHandorf, KCMF Viel… - Genes & …, 2023 - nature.com
The molecular processes underlying human health and disease are highly complex. Often,
genetic and environmental factors contribute to a given disease or phenotype in a non …

Advances in acute myeloid leukemia

LF Newell, RJ Cook - Bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an uncommon but potentially catastrophic diagnosis with
historically high mortality rates. The standard of care treatment remained unchanged for …

[HTML][HTML] Clonal dynamics of haematopoiesis across the human lifespan

E Mitchell, M Spencer Chapman, N Williams… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Age-related change in human haematopoiesis causes reduced regenerative capacity,
cytopenias, immune dysfunction and increased risk of blood cancer,–, but the reason for …

Genomic profiling for clinical decision making in myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemia

EJ Duncavage, A Bagg, RP Hasserjian… - Blood, The Journal …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemias derive from the clonal expansion of hematopoietic
cells driven by somatic gene mutations. Although assessment of morphology plays a crucial …

Hallmarks of cardiovascular ageing

M Abdellatif, PP Rainer, S Sedej… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Normal circulatory function is a key determinant of disease-free life expectancy (healthspan).
Indeed, pathologies affecting the cardiovascular system, which are growing in prevalence …

Life histories of myeloproliferative neoplasms inferred from phylogenies

N Williams, J Lee, E Mitchell, L Moore, EJ Baxter… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Mutations in cancer-associated genes drive tumour outgrowth, but our knowledge of the
timing of driver mutations and subsequent clonal dynamics is limited,–. Here, using whole …

DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease

ZD Smith, S Hetzel, A Meissner - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The DNA methylation field has matured from a phase of discovery and genomic
characterization to one seeking deeper functional understanding of how this modification …

Genome-wide analyses of 200,453 individuals yield new insights into the causes and consequences of clonal hematopoiesis

SP Kar, PM Quiros, M Gu, T Jiang, J Mitchell… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), the clonal expansion of a blood stem cell and its progeny driven
by somatic driver mutations, affects over a third of people, yet remains poorly understood …

Targeting innate immunity-driven inflammation in CKD and cardiovascular disease

T Speer, S Dimmeler, SJ Schunk, D Fliser… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Mortality among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is largely a consequence of
cardiovascular disease (CVD) and is a particular concern given the increasing prevalence of …