[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Portrait of a cancer: mutational signature analyses for cancer diagnostics

A Van Hoeck, NH Tjoonk, R van Boxtel, E Cuppen - BMC cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background In the past decade, systematic and comprehensive analyses of cancer
genomes have identified cancer driver genes and revealed unprecedented insight into the …

Mutational signatures: emerging concepts, caveats and clinical applications

G Koh, A Degasperi, X Zou, S Momen… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing has brought the cancer genomics community into new territory.
Thanks to the sheer power provided by the thousands of mutations present in each patient's …

[HTML][HTML] Mutational signatures: experimental design and analytical framework

G Koh, X Zou, S Nik-Zainal - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Mutational signatures provide a powerful alternative for understanding the pathophysiology
of cancer. Currently, experimental efforts aimed at validating and understanding the …

Mechanisms underlying mutational signatures in human cancers

T Helleday, S Eshtad, S Nik-Zainal - Nature reviews genetics, 2014 - nature.com
The collective somatic mutations observed in a cancer are the outcome of multiple
mutagenic processes that have been operative over the lifetime of a patient. Each process …

The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer

LB Alexandrov, J Kim, NJ Haradhvala, MN Huang… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Somatic mutations in cancer genomes are caused by multiple mutational processes each of
which generates a characteristic mutational signature. Using 84,729,690 somatic mutations …

[HTML][HTML] Domain landscapes of somatic mutations in cancer

NL Nehrt, TA Peterson, DH Park, MG Kann - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Large-scale tumor sequencing projects are now underway to identify genetic
mutations that drive tumor initiation and development. Most studies take a gene-based …

[HTML][HTML] MutSignatures: an R package for extraction and analysis of cancer mutational signatures

D Fantini, V Vidimar, Y Yu, S Condello, JJ Meeks - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer cells accumulate somatic mutations as result of DNA damage, inaccurate repair and
other mechanisms. Different genetic instability processes result in characteristic non-random …

A practical framework and online tool for mutational signature analyses show intertissue variation and driver dependencies

A Degasperi, TD Amarante, J Czarnecki, S Shooter… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Mutational signatures are patterns of mutations that arise during tumorigenesis. We present
an enhanced, practical framework for mutational signature analyses. Applying these …

Understanding mutagenesis through delineation of mutational signatures in human cancer

M Petljak, LB Alexandrov - Carcinogenesis, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Each individual cell within a human body acquires a certain number of somatic mutations
during a course of its lifetime. These mutations originate from a wide spectra of both …