Persistent mutation burden drives sustained anti-tumor immune responses

N Niknafs, A Balan, C Cherry, K Hummelink… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor mutation burden is an imperfect proxy of tumor foreignness and has therefore failed
to consistently demonstrate clinical utility in predicting responses in the context of …

Fundamental immune–oncogenicity trade-offs define driver mutation fitness

D Hoyos, R Zappasodi, I Schulze, Z Sethna… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Missense driver mutations in cancer are concentrated in a few hotspots. Various
mechanisms have been proposed to explain this skew, including biased mutational …

The association between tumor mutational burden and prognosis is dependent on treatment context

C Valero, M Lee, D Hoen, J Wang, Z Nadeem, N Patel… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In multiple cancer types, high tumor mutational burden (TMB) is associated with longer
survival after treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). The association of TMB with …

Tumor mutational load predicts survival after immunotherapy across multiple cancer types

RM Samstein, CH Lee, AN Shoushtari, MD Hellmann… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatments benefit some patients with metastatic cancers,
but predictive biomarkers are needed. Findings in selected cancer types suggest that tumor …

The status of tumor mutational burden and immunotherapy

V Anagnostou, A Bardelli, TA Chan, S Turajlic - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Tumor mutational burden (TMB) has received significant attention within ongoing pursuits of
biomarkers of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors, and notably received FDA …

Burden of tumor mutations, neoepitopes, and other variants are weak predictors of cancer immunotherapy response and overall survival

MA Wood, BR Weeder, JK David, A Nellore… - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Tumor mutational burden (TMB; the quantity of aberrant nucleotide sequences
a given tumor may harbor) has been associated with response to immune checkpoint …

Correlate tumor mutation burden with immune signatures in human cancers

X Wang, M Li - BMC immunology, 2019 - Springer
Background Tumor mutation burden (TMB) has been associated with cancer
immunotherapeutic response and cancer prognosis. Although many explorations have …

The challenges of tumor mutational burden as an immunotherapy biomarker

DL Jardim, A Goodman, D de Melo Gagliato… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor mutational burden (TMB) reflects cancer mutation quantity. Mutations are processed
to neo-antigens and presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins to T …

Multimodal genomic features predict outcome of immune checkpoint blockade in non-small-cell lung cancer

V Anagnostou, N Niknafs, K Marrone, DC Bruhm… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Despite progress in immunotherapy, identifying patients that respond has remained a
challenge. Through analysis of whole-exome and targeted sequence data from 5,449 …

Analysis of 100,000 human cancer genomes reveals the landscape of tumor mutational burden

ZR Chalmers, CF Connelly, D Fabrizio, L Gay, SM Ali… - Genome medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background High tumor mutational burden (TMB) is an emerging biomarker of sensitivity to
immune checkpoint inhibitors and has been shown to be more significantly associated with …