Computational analysis of cancer genome sequencing data

I Cortés-Ciriano, DC Gulhan, JJK Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Distilling biologically meaningful information from cancer genome sequencing data requires
comprehensive identification of somatic alterations using rigorous computational methods …

[HTML][HTML] Using R and bioconductor in clinical genomics and transcriptomics

JL Sepulveda - The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 2020 - Elsevier
Bioinformatics pipelines are essential in the analysis of genomic and transcriptomic data
generated by next-generation sequencing (NGS). Recent guidelines emphasize the need …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx

AM Frankell, M Dietzen, M Al Bakir, EL Lim, T Karasaki… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide. Here we
analysed 1,644 tumour regions sampled at surgery or during follow-up from the first 421 …

[HTML][HTML] Immune checkpoint HLA-E: CD94-NKG2A mediates evasion of circulating tumor cells from NK cell surveillance

X Liu, J Song, H Zhang, X Liu, F Zuo, Y Zhao, Y Zhao… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs), shed by primary malignancies, function as" seeds" for distant
metastasis. However, it is still largely unknown how CTCs escape immune surveillance …

Non-viral precision T cell receptor replacement for personalized cell therapy

SP Foy, K Jacoby, DA Bota, T Hunter, Z Pan, E Stawiski… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
T cell receptors (TCRs) enable T cells to specifically recognize mutations in cancer cells,–.
Here we developed a clinical-grade approach based on CRISPR–Cas9 non-viral precision …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved pan-cancer microenvironment subtypes predict response to immunotherapy

A Bagaev, N Kotlov, K Nomie, V Svekolkin, A Gafurov… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The clinical use of molecular targeted therapy is rapidly evolving but has primarily focused
on genomic alterations. Transcriptomic analysis offers an opportunity to dissect the …

Meta-analysis of tumor-and T cell-intrinsic mechanisms of sensitization to checkpoint inhibition

K Litchfield, JL Reading, C Puttick, K Thakkar… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) augment adaptive immunity. Systematic pan-tumor analyses
may reveal the relative importance of tumor-cell-intrinsic and microenvironmental features …

[HTML][HTML] Colorectal cancer cells enter a diapause-like DTP state to survive chemotherapy

SK Rehman, J Haynes, E Collignon, KR Brown… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer cells enter a reversible drug-tolerant persister (DTP) state to evade death from
chemotherapy and targeted agents. It is increasingly appreciated that DTPs are important …

Most large structural variants in cancer genomes can be detected without long reads

ZN Choo, JM Behr, A Deshpande, K Hadi, X Yao… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Short-read sequencing is the workhorse of cancer genomics yet is thought to miss many
structural variants (SVs), particularly large chromosomal alterations. To characterize missing …

Pan-tumor genomic biomarkers for PD-1 checkpoint blockade–based immunotherapy

R Cristescu, R Mogg, M Ayers, A Albright, E Murphy… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Immunotherapy targeting the programmed cell death protein–1 (PD-1) axis
elicits durable antitumor responses in multiple cancer types. However, clinical responses …