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A clonal expression biomarker associates with lung cancer mortality
Biswas D, Birkbak N, Rosenthal R, Hiley C, Lim E, Papp K, Boeing S, Krzystanek M, Djureinovic D, La Fleur L, Greco M, Döme B, Fillinger J, Brunnström H, Wu Y, Moore D, Skrzypski M, Abbosh C, Litchfield K, Al Bakir M, Watkins T, Veeriah S, Wilson G, Jamal-Hanjani M, Moldvay J, Botling J, Chinnaiyan A, Micke P, Hackshaw A, Bartek J, Csabai I, Szallasi Z, Herrero J, McGranahan N, Swanton C. A clonal expression biomarker associates with lung cancer mortality. Nature Medicine 2019, 25: 1540-1548. PMID: 31591602, PMCID: PMC6984959, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0595-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerClinicopathological risk factorsCell lung cancerLung cancer mortalityPrognostic gene expression signaturesCancer cell proliferationGene expression signaturesCancer mortalityLung cancerRisk factorsExpression-based biomarkersCopy number gainsDisease subtypesClinical descriptorsTranscriptomic biomarkersIndividual tumorsCancer typesDiagnostic precisionMolecular biomarkersExpression signaturesCell proliferationDNA copy number gainsBiomarkersPatientsIntratumor heterogeneity
2020
Pervasive chromosomal instability and karyotype order in tumour evolution
Watkins T, Lim E, Petkovic M, Elizalde S, Birkbak N, Wilson G, Moore D, Grönroos E, Rowan A, Dewhurst S, Demeulemeester J, Dentro S, Horswell S, Au L, Haase K, Escudero M, Rosenthal R, Bakir M, Xu H, Litchfield K, Lu W, Mourikis T, Dietzen M, Spain L, Cresswell G, Biswas D, Lamy P, Nordentoft I, Harbst K, Castro-Giner F, Yates L, Caramia F, Jaulin F, Vicier C, Tomlinson I, Brastianos P, Cho R, Bastian B, Dyrskjøt L, Jönsson G, Savas P, Loi S, Campbell P, Andre F, Luscombe N, Steeghs N, Tjan-Heijnen V, Szallasi Z, Turajlic S, Jamal-Hanjani M, Van Loo P, Bakhoum S, Schwarz R, McGranahan N, Swanton C. Pervasive chromosomal instability and karyotype order in tumour evolution. Nature 2020, 587: 126-132. PMID: 32879494, PMCID: PMC7611706, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2698-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSomatic copy number alterationsWhole-genome doublingChromosomal instabilityHuman leukocyte antigenChromosomal instability resultsSomatic copy number alteration analysisLoss of chromosome 8pFocal somatic copy number alterationsLoss of heterozygosityCopy number alterationsMetastatic samplesTumor evolutionKaryotype remodelingChromosome 8q24.1Clear cell renal cellChromosome 1q21Evolutionary eventsHER2+ breast cancerChromosome 8pChromosome 11q13.3Focal amplificationHaploid copiesRecurrent lossSubclonal frequenciesClonal events
2019
Pulmonary venous circulating tumor cell dissemination before tumor resection and disease relapse
Chemi F, Rothwell D, McGranahan N, Gulati S, Abbosh C, Pearce S, Zhou C, Wilson G, Jamal-Hanjani M, Birkbak N, Pierce J, Kim C, Ferdous S, Burt D, Slane-Tan D, Gomes F, Moore D, Shah R, Al Bakir M, Hiley C, Veeriah S, Summers Y, Crosbie P, Ward S, Mesquita B, Dynowski M, Biswas D, Tugwood J, Blackhall F, Miller C, Hackshaw A, Brady G, Swanton C, Dive C. Pulmonary venous circulating tumor cell dissemination before tumor resection and disease relapse. Nature Medicine 2019, 25: 1534-1539. PMID: 31591595, PMCID: PMC6986897, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0593-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small-cell lung cancerEarly-stage non-small-cell lung cancerDisease relapseGenomic profilingHigh risk of recurrenceDetection of circulating tumor cellsRisk of recurrenceTumor cell disseminationTime of surgeryPredictors of relapsePotential clinical utilityCurative intentPrimary tumorSurgical resectionTumor resectionTumor stagePredicting relapseCell disseminationTumor cellsLung cancerMutational overlapRelapseMultivariate analysisSurgeryHigh risk