Next-generation sequencing in oncology: genetic diagnosis, risk prediction and cancer classification

R Kamps, RD Brandão, BJ van den Bosch… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has expanded in the last decades with
significant improvements in the reliability, sequencing chemistry, pipeline analyses, data …

[HTML][HTML] Classifying the evolutionary and ecological features of neoplasms

CC Maley, A Aktipis, TA Graham, A Sottoriva… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Neoplasms change over time through a process of cell-level evolution, driven by genetic
and epigenetic alterations. However, the ecology of the microenvironment of a neoplastic …

High-accuracy long-read amplicon sequences using unique molecular identifiers with Nanopore or PacBio sequencing

SM Karst, RM Ziels, RH Kirkegaard, EA Sørensen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
High-throughput amplicon sequencing of large genomic regions remains challenging for
short-read technologies. Here, we report a high-throughput amplicon sequencing approach …

Characterizing genetic intra-tumor heterogeneity across 2,658 human cancer genomes

SC Dentro, I Leshchiner, K Haase, M Tarabichi… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Intra-tumor heterogeneity (ITH) is a mechanism of therapeutic resistance and therefore an
important clinical challenge. However, the extent, origin, and drivers of ITH across cancer …

Intratumor heterogeneity in localized lung adenocarcinomas delineated by multiregion sequencing

J Zhang, J Fujimoto, J Zhang, DC Wedge, X Song… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Cancers are composed of populations of cells with distinct molecular and phenotypic
features, a phenomenon termed intratumor heterogeneity (ITH). ITH in lung cancers has not …

Clinical and biological implications of driver mutations in myelodysplastic syndromes

E Papaemmanuil, M Gerstung… - Blood, The Journal …, 2013 - ashpublications.org
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a heterogeneous group of chronic hematological
malignancies characterized by dysplasia, ineffective hematopoiesis and a variable risk of …

Tumor evolution: Linear, branching, neutral or punctuated?

A Davis, R Gao, N Navin - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews …, 2017 - Elsevier
Intratumor heterogeneity has been widely reported in human cancers, but our knowledge of
how this genetic diversity emerges over time remains limited. A central challenge in studying …

Limited heterogeneity of known driver gene mutations among the metastases of individual patients with pancreatic cancer

AP Makohon-Moore, M Zhang, JG Reiter, I Bozic… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The extent of heterogeneity among driver gene mutations present in naturally occurring
metastases—that is, treatment-naive metastatic disease—is largely unknown. To address …

Intratumor heterogeneity and branched evolution revealed by multiregion sequencing

M Gerlinger, AJ Rowan, S Horswell… - New England journal …, 2012 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Intratumor heterogeneity may foster tumor evolution and adaptation and hinder
personalized-medicine strategies that depend on results from single tumor-biopsy samples …

[HTML][HTML] Intratumor and intertumor heterogeneity in melanoma

TM Grzywa, W Paskal, PK Włodarski - Translational oncology, 2017 - Elsevier
Melanoma is a cancer that exhibits one of the most aggressive and heterogeneous features.
The incidence rate escalates. A high number of clones harboring various mutations …