Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO Journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …

Aneuploidy as a promoter and suppressor of malignant growth

A Vasudevan, KM Schukken, EL Sausville… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Aneuploidy has been recognized as a hallmark of tumorigenesis for more than 100 years,
but the connection between chromosomal errors and malignant growth has remained …

[PDF][PDF] 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 …

[PDF][PDF] Spatially resolved multi-omics deciphers bidirectional tumor-host interdependence in glioblastoma

VM Ravi, P Will, J Kueckelhaus, N Sun, K Joseph… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
Glioblastomas are malignant tumors of the central nervous system hallmarked by subclonal
diversity and dynamic adaptation amid developmental hierarchies. The source of dynamic …

MACHETE identifies interferon-encompassing chromosome 9p21. 3 deletions as mediators of immune evasion and metastasis

FM Barriga, KM Tsanov, YJ Ho, N Sohail, A Zhang… - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
The most prominent homozygous deletions in cancer affect chromosome 9p21. 3 and
eliminate CDKN2A/B tumor suppressors, disabling a cell-intrinsic barrier to tumorigenesis …

Aneuploidy renders cancer cells vulnerable to mitotic checkpoint inhibition

Y Cohen-Sharir, JM McFarland, M Abdusamad… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Selective targeting of aneuploid cells is an attractive strategy for cancer treatment. However,
it is unclear whether aneuploidy generates any clinically relevant vulnerabilities in cancer …

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

V Girish, AA Lakhani, SL Thompson, CM Scaduto… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Most cancers exhibit aneuploidy, but its functional significance in tumor development is
controversial. Here, we describe ReDACT (Restoring Disomy in Aneuploid cells using …

An analysis of genetic heterogeneity in untreated cancers

JG Reiter, M Baretti, JM Gerold… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic intratumoural heterogeneity is a natural consequence of imperfect DNA replication.
Any two randomly selected cells, whether normal or cancerous, are therefore genetically …

[PDF][PDF] Chromosomal instability accelerates the evolution of resistance to anti-cancer therapies

DA Lukow, EL Sausville, P Suri, NK Chunduri… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Aneuploidy is a ubiquitous feature of human tumors, but the acquisition of aneuploidy
typically antagonizes cellular fitness. To investigate how aneuploidy could contribute to …

[PDF][PDF] Genome-wide identification and analysis of prognostic features in human cancers

JC Smith, JM Sheltzer - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Clinical decisions in cancer rely on precisely assessing patient risk. To improve our ability to
identify the most aggressive malignancies, we constructed genome-wide survival models …