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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
2023
The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx
Frankell A, Dietzen M, Al Bakir M, Lim E, Karasaki T, Ward S, Veeriah S, Colliver E, Huebner A, Bunkum A, Hill M, Grigoriadis K, Moore D, Black J, Liu W, Thol K, Pich O, Watkins T, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Cook D, Salgado R, Wilson G, Bailey C, Angelova M, Bentham R, Martínez-Ruiz C, Abbosh C, Nicholson A, Le Quesne J, Biswas D, Rosenthal R, Puttick C, Hessey S, Lee C, Prymas P, Toncheva A, Smith J, Xing W, Nicod J, Price G, Kerr K, Naidu B, Middleton G, Blyth K, Fennell D, Forster M, Lee S, Falzon M, Hewish M, Shackcloth M, Lim E, Benafif S, Russell P, Boleti E, Krebs M, Lester J, Papadatos-Pastos D, Ahmad T, Thakrar R, Lawrence D, Navani N, Janes S, Dive C, Blackhall F, Summers Y, Cave J, Marafioti T, Herrero J, Quezada S, Peggs K, Schwarz R, Van Loo P, Miedema D, Birkbak N, Hiley C, Hackshaw A, Zaccaria S, Jamal-Hanjani M, McGranahan N, Swanton C. The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx. Nature 2023, 616: 525-533. PMID: 37046096, PMCID: PMC10115649, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05783-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdenocarcinoma of LungCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungDNA Copy Number VariationsHumansLung NeoplasmsMutagenesisMutationNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalPhylogenySmokingTreatment OutcomeConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerDisease-free survivalCell lung cancerWhole-genome doublingLung cancerLung adenocarcinomaAssociated with shorter disease-free survivalShorter disease-free survivalEvolution of lung cancerPattern of relapseSubclonal selectionPrimary study endpointHistory of smokingSubclonal expansionsCopy number instabilityEGFR mutationsCancer-associated mortalityCopy number heterogeneityClinical outcomesStudy endpointIntratumour heterogeneityNever-smokersClonal expansionFollow-upOncogenic isoform
2021
Meta-analysis of tumor- and T cell-intrinsic mechanisms of sensitization to checkpoint inhibition
Litchfield K, Reading J, Puttick C, Thakkar K, Abbosh C, Bentham R, Watkins T, Rosenthal R, Biswas D, Rowan A, Lim E, Al Bakir M, Turati V, Guerra-Assunção J, Conde L, Furness A, Saini S, Hadrup S, Herrero J, Lee S, Van Loo P, Enver T, Larkin J, Hellmann M, Turajlic S, Quezada S, McGranahan N, Swanton C. Meta-analysis of tumor- and T cell-intrinsic mechanisms of sensitization to checkpoint inhibition. Cell 2021, 184: 596-614.e14. PMID: 33508232, PMCID: PMC7933824, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBiomarkers, TumorCD8 AntigensChemokine CXCL13Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9Cohort StudiesCyclin D1DNA Copy Number VariationsExomeGene AmplificationHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmune EvasionMultivariate AnalysisMutationNeoplasmsPolymorphism, Single NucleotideReceptors, CCR5T-LymphocytesTumor BurdenConceptsTumor mutational burdenTumor-infiltrating lymphocytesHistocompatibility leukocyte antigenCheckpoint inhibitorsCD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytesCPI-treated patientsTumor cell-intrinsicClinical outcome criteriaCopy-number analysisCXCL9 expressionCCND1 amplificationMutational burdenLeukocyte antigenTumor typesMultivariate predictorsSingle-cell RNA sequencingAdaptive immunityAssociated with resistanceWhole exomeMicroenvironmental featuresOutcome criteriaCopy-numberFunctional evidenceRNA-seqTumor
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