Analyses of non-coding somatic drivers in 2,658 cancer whole genomes

E Rheinbay, MM Nielsen, F Abascal, JA Wala… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The discovery of drivers of cancer has traditionally focused on protein-coding genes,,–. Here
we present analyses of driver point mutations and structural variants in non-coding regions …

The landscape of cancer genes and mutational processes in breast cancer

PJ Stephens, PS Tarpey, H Davies, P Van Loo… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
All cancers carry somatic mutations in their genomes. A subset, known as driver mutations,
confer clonal selective advantage on cancer cells and are causally implicated in …

Landscape and function of multiple mutations within individual oncogenes

Y Saito, J Koya, M Araki, Y Kogure, S Shingaki… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Sporadic reports have described cancer cases in which multiple driver mutations (MMs)
occur in the same oncogene,. However, the overall landscape and relevance of MMs remain …

Identification of cancer driver genes based on nucleotide context

F Dietlein, D Weghorn, A Taylor-Weiner, A Richters… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer genomes contain large numbers of somatic mutations but few of these mutations
drive tumor development. Current approaches either identify driver genes on the basis of …

Cancer and genomics

PA Futreal, A Kasprzyk, E Birney, JC Mullikin… - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Identification of the genes that cause oncogenesis is a central aim of cancer research. We
searched the proteins predicted from the draft human genome sequence for paralogues of …

The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers

M Gerstung, C Jolly, I Leshchiner, SC Dentro… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer develops through a process of somatic evolution,. Sequencing data from a single
biopsy represent a snapshot of this process that can reveal the timing of specific genomic …

Signatures of mutation and selection in the cancer genome

GR Bignell, CD Greenman, H Davies, AP Butler… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
The cancer genome is moulded by the dual processes of somatic mutation and selection.
Homozygous deletions in cancer genomes occur over recessive cancer genes, where they …

Chromosomally unstable mouse tumours have genomic alterations similar to diverse human cancers

RS Maser, B Choudhury, PJ Campbell, B Feng… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Highly rearranged and mutated cancer genomes present major challenges in the
identification of pathogenetic events driving the neoplastic transformation process. Here we …

Mutational landscape and significance across 12 major cancer types

C Kandoth, MD McLellan, F Vandin, K Ye, B Niu, C Lu… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has used the latest sequencing and analysis
methods to identify somatic variants across thousands of tumours. Here we present data and …

Pathway and network analysis of cancer genomes

Nature methods, 2015 - nature.com
Genomic information on tumors from 50 cancer types cataloged by the International Cancer
Genome Consortium (ICGC) shows that only a few well-studied driver genes are frequently …