Spatial biology of cancer evolution

Z Seferbekova, A Lomakin, LR Yates… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that the
driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

Context is everything: aneuploidy in cancer

U Ben-David, A Amon - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by multiple types of genetic alterations, which range in size from point
mutations to whole-chromosome gains and losses, known as aneuploidy. Chromosome …

Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age

I Martincorena, JC Fowler, A Wabik, ARJ Lawson… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The extent to which cells in normal tissues accumulate mutations throughout life is poorly
understood. Some mutant cells expand into clones that can be detected by genome …

Clonal expansion in non-cancer tissues

N Kakiuchi, S Ogawa - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is a clonal disorder derived from a single ancestor cell and its progenies that are
positively selected by acquisition of 'driver mutations'. However, the evolution of positively …

Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by genetic change, and the advent of massively parallel sequencing has
enabled systematic documentation of this variation at the whole-genome scale,–. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] The genomics of oxidative DNA damage, repair, and resulting mutagenesis

AR Poetsch - Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Reactive oxygen species are a constant threat to DNA as they modify bases with the risk of
disrupting genome function, inducing genome instability and mutation. Such risks are due to …

Oesophageal cancer

EC Smyth, J Lagergren, RC Fitzgerald… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Oesophageal cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide
and is therefore a major global health challenge. The two major subtypes of oesophageal …

Molecular phenotyping reveals the identity of Barrett's esophagus and its malignant transition

K Nowicki-Osuch, L Zhuang, S Jammula, CW Bleaney… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The origin of human metaplastic states and their propensity for cancer is poorly understood.
Barrett's esophagus is a common metaplastic condition that increases the risk for …

Activation of proto-oncogenes by disruption of chromosome neighborhoods

D Hnisz, AS Weintraub, DS Day, AL Valton, RO Bak… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Oncogenes are activated through well-known chromosomal alterations such as gene fusion,
translocation, and focal amplification. In light of recent evidence that the control of key genes …

A renewed model of pancreatic cancer evolution based on genomic rearrangement patterns

F Notta, M Chan-Seng-Yue, M Lemire, Y Li, GW Wilson… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer, a highly aggressive tumour type with uniformly poor prognosis,
exemplifies the classically held view of stepwise cancer development. The current model of …