Therapeutic and prognostic insights from the analysis of cancer mutational signatures

SW Brady, AM Gout, J Zhang - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
The somatic mutations in each cancer genome are caused by multiple mutational
processes, each of which leaves a characteristic imprint (or 'signature'), potentially caused …

COSMIC: a curated database of somatic variants and clinical data for cancer

Z Sondka, NB Dhir, D Carvalho-Silva… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer (COSMIC), https://cancer. sanger.
ac. uk/cosmic, is an expert-curated knowledgebase providing data on somatic variants in …

Substitution mutational signatures in whole-genome–sequenced cancers in the UK population

A Degasperi, X Zou, T Dias Amarante… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) permits comprehensive cancer genome analyses,
revealing mutational signatures, imprints of DNA damage, and repair processes that have …

The genomic landscape of 2,023 colorectal cancers

AJ Cornish, AJ Gruber, B Kinnersley, D Chubb… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is a common cause of mortality, but a comprehensive
description of its genomic landscape is lacking,,,,,,–. Here we perform whole-genome …

Signatures of copy number alterations in human cancer

CD Steele, A Abbasi, SMA Islam, AL Bowes… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gains and losses of DNA are prevalent in cancer and emerge as a consequence of inter-
related processes of replication stress, mitotic errors, spindle multipolarity and breakage …

Evolutionary trajectories of small cell lung cancer under therapy

J George, L Maas, N Abedpour, M Cartolano, L Kaiser… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The evolutionary processes that underlie the marked sensitivity of small cell lung cancer
(SCLC) to chemotherapy and rapid relapse are unknown,–. Here we determined tumour …

3D genomic map** reveals multifocality of human pancreatic precancers

AM Braxton, AL Kiemen, MP Grahn, A Forjaz… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasias (PanINs) are the most common precursors of
pancreatic cancer, but their small size and inaccessibility in humans make them challenging …

Evolutionary histories of breast cancer and related clones

T Nishimura, N Kakiuchi, K Yoshida, T Sakurai… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Recent studies have documented frequent evolution of clones carrying common cancer
mutations in apparently normal tissues, which are implicated in cancer development …

Map** clustered mutations in cancer reveals APOBEC3 mutagenesis of ecDNA

EN Bergstrom, J Luebeck, M Petljak, A Khandekar… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Clustered somatic mutations are common in cancer genomes and previous analyses reveal
several types of clustered single-base substitutions, which include doublet-and multi-base …

Assigning mutational signatures to individual samples and individual somatic mutations with SigProfilerAssignment

M Díaz-Gay, R Vangara, M Barnes, X Wang… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Analysis of mutational signatures is a powerful approach for understanding the
mutagenic processes that have shaped the evolution of a cancer genome. To evaluate the …