Targeting metastatic cancer

K Ganesh, J Massague - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Despite recent therapeutic advances in cancer treatment, metastasis remains the principal
cause of cancer death. Recent work has uncovered the unique biology of metastasis …

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 …

Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing

ML Leibowitz, S Papathanasiou, PA Doerfler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome editing has therapeutic potential for treating genetic diseases and cancer.
However, the currently most practicable approaches rely on the generation of DNA double …

Genetic and non-genetic clonal diversity in cancer evolution

JRM Black, N McGranahan - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The observation and analysis of intra-tumour heterogeneity (ITH), particularly in genomic
studies, has advanced our understanding of the evolutionary forces that shape cancer …

Targeting Akt in cancer for precision therapy

H Hua, H Zhang, J Chen, J Wang, J Liu… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Biomarkers-guided precision therapeutics has revolutionized the clinical development and
administration of molecular-targeted anticancer agents. Tailored precision cancer therapy …

Genomic and phenotypic heterogeneity in prostate cancer

MC Haffner, W Zwart, MP Roudier, LD True… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
From a clinical, morphological and molecular perspective, prostate cancer is a
heterogeneous disease. Primary prostate cancers are often multifocal, having …

Extensive phylogenies of human development inferred from somatic mutations

THH Coorens, L Moore, PS Robinson, R Sanghvi… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Starting from the zygote, all cells in the human body continuously acquire mutations.
Mutations shared between different cells imply a common progenitor and are thus naturally …

Binary pan-cancer classes with distinct vulnerabilities defined by pro-or anti-cancer YAP/TEAD activity

JD Pearson, K Huang, M Pacal, SR McCurdy, S Lu… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer heterogeneity impacts therapeutic response, driving efforts to discover over-arching
rules that supersede variability. Here, we define pan-cancer binary classes based on distinct …

Integration of multiomics data with graph convolutional networks to identify new cancer genes and their associated molecular mechanisms

R Schulte-Sasse, S Budach, D Hnisz… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
The increase in available high-throughput molecular data creates computational challenges
for the identification of cancer genes. Genetic as well as non-genetic causes contribute to …

Whole-genome doubling confers unique genetic vulnerabilities on tumour cells

RJ Quinton, A DiDomizio, MA Vittoria, K Kotýnková… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Whole-genome doubling (WGD) is common in human cancers, occurring early in
tumorigenesis and generating genetically unstable tetraploid cells that fuel tumour …