A practical guide to cancer subclonal reconstruction from DNA sequencing

M Tarabichi, A Salcedo, AG Deshwar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Subclonal reconstruction from bulk tumor DNA sequencing has become a pillar of cancer
evolution studies, providing insight into the clonality and relative ordering of mutations and …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and targeting prostate cancer cell heterogeneity and plasticity

DG Tang - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a prevalent malignancy that occurs primarily in old males. Prostate
tumors in different patients manifest significant inter-patient heterogeneity with respect to …

Spatial transcriptomics inferred from pathology whole-slide images links tumor heterogeneity to survival in breast and lung cancer

A Levy-Jurgenson, X Tekpli, VN Kristensen… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Digital analysis of pathology whole-slide images is fast becoming a game changer in cancer
diagnosis and treatment. Specifically, deep learning methods have shown great potential to …

Technical and biological constraints on ctDNA-based genotyping

C Herberts, AW Wyatt - Trends in Cancer, 2021 - cell.com
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) enables real-time genomic profiling of cancer without the
need for tissue biopsy. ctDNA-based technology is seeing rapid uptake in clinical practice …

Somatic driver mutation prevalence in 1844 prostate cancers identifies ZNRF3 loss as a predictor of metastatic relapse

M Fraser, J Livingstone, JL Wrana, A Finelli… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Driver gene mutations that are more prevalent in metastatic, castration-resistant prostate
cancer (mCRPC) than localized disease represent candidate prognostic biomarkers. We …

[HTML][HTML] Aging of the progenitor cells that initiate prostate cancer

J Freeland, PD Crowell, JM Giafaglione, PC Boutros… - Cancer Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Many organs experience a loss of tissue mass and a decline in regenerative capacity during
aging. In contrast, the prostate continues to grow in volume. In fact, age is the most important …

Inferring structural variant cancer cell fraction

M Cmero, K Yuan, CS Ong, J Schröder… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We present SVclone, a computational method for inferring the cancer cell fraction of
structural variant (SV) breakpoints from whole-genome sequencing data. SVclone …

Basket Trials: Past, Present, and Future

YR Murciano-Goroff, M Uppal, M Chen… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Large-scale tumor molecular profiling has revealed that diverse cancer histologies are
driven by common pathways with unifying biomarkers that can be exploited therapeutically …

Assessing reliability of intra-tumor heterogeneity estimates from single sample whole exome sequencing data

J Abécassis, AS Hamy, C Laurent, B Sadacca… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Tumors are made of evolving and heterogeneous populations of cells which arise from
successive appearance and expansion of subclonal populations, following acquisition of …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo growth of subclones derived from Lewis lung carcinoma is determined by the tumor microenvironment

BL Xu, XM Wang, GY Chen, P Yuan, L Han… - American Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Heterogeneity is a fundamental feature of human tumors and plays a major role in drug
resistance and disease progression. In the present study, we selected single-cell-derived …