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Comparative Molecular Life History of Spontaneous Canine and Human Gliomas
Amin S, Anderson K, Boudreau C, Martinez-Ledesma E, Kocakavuk E, Johnson K, Barthel F, Varn F, Kassab C, Ling X, Kim H, Barter M, Lau C, Ngan C, Chapman M, Koehler J, Long J, Miller A, Miller C, Porter B, Rissi D, Mazcko C, LeBlanc A, Dickinson P, Packer R, Taylor A, Rossmeisl J, Woolard K, Heimberger A, Levine J, Verhaak R. Comparative Molecular Life History of Spontaneous Canine and Human Gliomas. Cancer Cell 2020, 37: 243-257.e7. PMID: 32049048, PMCID: PMC7132629, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2020.01.004.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsComparative genomic analysisDNA methylation patternsReceptor tyrosine kinasesCell cycle pathwayGenomic analysisMethylation sequencingLife historyMutational processesTyrosine kinaseHigh similarityHuman gliomasTumorigenic mechanismsHost environmentMutational rateSomatic alterationsSporadic gliomasIDH1 R132Canine gliomasMolecular profileGlioma etiologyHuman pediatricPediatric gliomasTranscriptomeKinaseUnique insights
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Somatic mutation distributions in cancer genomes vary with three-dimensional chromatin structure
Akdemir K, Le V, Kim J, Killcoyne S, King D, Lin Y, Tian Y, Inoue A, Amin S, Robinson F, Nimmakayalu M, Herrera R, Lynn E, Chan K, Seth S, Klimczak L, Gerstung M, Gordenin D, O’Brien J, Li L, Deribe Y, Verhaak R, Campbell P, Fitzgerald R, Morrison A, Dixon J, Andrew Futreal P. Somatic mutation distributions in cancer genomes vary with three-dimensional chromatin structure. Nature Genetics 2020, 52: 1178-1188. PMID: 33020667, PMCID: PMC8350746, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-020-0708-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCancer genomesMutational processesGenome organizationThree-dimensional genome organizationThree-dimensional chromatin structureSomatic mutationsSpatial genome organizationMutation rate variationDifferent human cancer typesDifferent mutational processesWhole-genome datasetsActive mutational processesSpecific mutational processesChromatin structureHuman cancer typesMutation distributionInactive domainsDevelopment of cancerDriver genesGenomeMutational loadActive domainHuman cancersMutationsNovel therapeutic strategies