Evolutionary divergence of HLA class I genotype impacts efficacy of cancer immunotherapy

D Chowell, C Krishna, F Pierini, V Makarov, NA Rizvi… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
… of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment for cancerHLA-I evolutionary divergence
(HED) of patients with cancerdivergence between HLA-I alleles of each patient’s genotype. …

Patient HLA class I genotype influences cancer response to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy

D Chowell, LGT Morris, CM Grigg, JK Weber… - Science, 2018 - science.org
… However, tumor responses to these drugs are variable, and treatment resistance is common
(4–6). To date, most research to predict clinical efficacy … The combined effect of HLA class I …

[PDF][PDF] Germline HLA landscape does not predict efficacy of pembrolizumab monotherapy across solid tumor types

A Chhibber, L Huang, H Zhang, J Xu, R Cristescu… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
… the impact of class I and class II human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genotypes, heterozygosity,
and diversity on the efficacy of … Association with HLA class I evolutionary divergence was …

Germline HLA-B evolutionary divergence influences the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade therapy in gastrointestinal cancer

Z Lu, H Chen, X Jiao, Y Wang, L Wu, H Sun, S Li… - Genome Medicine, 2021 - Springer
… by the divergent allele advantage of the HLA-I genotype [18, 33]… of classic HLA class I genes
in GI cancer and investigate their … effects of both zygosity and HED at the HLA-A, HLA-B and …

High response rate and durability driven by HLA genetic diversity in patients with kidney cancer treated with lenvatinib and pembrolizumab

CH Lee, RG DiNatale, D Chowell, C Krishna… - Molecular Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
… We describe the high clinical efficacy and its genomic … As described previously, HLA-I
genotyping of blood-derived … of quantifying the overall evolutionary divergence at the HLA class-I …

HLA-I Evolutionary Divergence Confers Response to PD-1 Blockade plus Chemotherapy in Untreated Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

T Jiang, Q Jin, J Wang, F Wu, J Chen, G Chen… - Clinical Cancer …, 2023 - AACR
… In this study, we integrated clinical and HLA-I genotype data of … III trial to investigate the
efficacy and safety of camrelizumab or … the effect of HED of HLA-A, HLA-B, or HLA-C on treatment

[HTML][HTML] Individual HLA heterogeneity and its implications for cellular immune evasion in cancer and beyond

S Pagliuca, C Gurnari, MT Rubio, V Visconte… - … in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… with more divergent HLA class I alleles could respond better to … In fact, HLA class I and class
II genotypes have been shown … inconsistent immunotherapy efficacy across cancer cohorts …

[HTML][HTML] … rate and durability driven by HLA genetic diversity in kidney cancer patients treated with the immunotherapy combination lenvatinib and pembrolizumab.

CH Lee, RG DiNatale, D Chowell… - Molecular cancer …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… germline HLA-I diversity strongly impacted treatment efficacy. … that HLA genotype can affect
ICB response[31, 47]. Reduced … the overall evolutionary divergence at the HLA class-I alleles[…

Heterozygote advantage at HLA class I and II loci and reduced risk of colorectal cancer

YY Tsai, C Qu, JD Bonner, R Sanz-Pamplona… - … in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… total number of heterozygous genotypes at HLA class I and/or … a potential complementary
effect of HLA class I and class II … tumor types failed to report HLA evolutionary divergence as …

[HTML][HTML] Deregulation of HLA-I in cancer and its central importance for immunotherapy

A Hazini, K Fisher, L Seymour - … for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… we assess the implications for current immunotherapy approaches … inferred that HLA LOH
was a late event in tumor evolution and … Most studies focus on how to increase the efficiency of …