A picture guide to cancer progression and monotonic accumulation models: evolutionary assumptions, plausible interpretations, and alternative uses

R Diaz-Uriarte - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06824, 2023 - arxiv.org
Cancer progression and monotonic accumulation models were developed to discover
dependencies in the irreversible acquisition of binary traits from cross-sectional data. They …

Joint analysis of mutational and transcriptional landscapes in human cancer reveals key perturbations during cancer evolution

JW Cho, J Cao, M Hemberg - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Tumors are able to acquire new capabilities, including traits such as drug
resistance and metastasis that are associated with unfavorable clinical outcomes. Single …

The temporal evolution of cancer hallmarks

L Gourmet, D Ramazzotti, P Mallick, S Walker-Samuel… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cancer hallmarks describe key physiological characteristics that distinguish cancers from
normal tissues. The temporal order in which these hallmarks appear during cancer …

[PDF][PDF] Identification of Somatic Mutational Patterns with Biological and Clinical Significance in Solid and Hematological Malignancies

RE McNeil - 2024 - prism.ucalgary.ca
Cancers use Darwinian evolution to naturally select for advantageous DNA alterations that
allow these malignancies to escape normal biological control mechanisms. Advantageous …