Mutational signatures: emerging concepts, caveats and clinical applications

G Koh, A Degasperi, X Zou, S Momen… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing has brought the cancer genomics community into new territory.
Thanks to the sheer power provided by the thousands of mutations present in each patient's …

Portrait of a cancer: mutational signature analyses for cancer diagnostics

A Van Hoeck, NH Tjoonk, R van Boxtel, E Cuppen - BMC cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background In the past decade, systematic and comprehensive analyses of cancer
genomes have identified cancer driver genes and revealed unprecedented insight into the …

The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer

LB Alexandrov, J Kim, NJ Haradhvala, MN Huang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Somatic mutations in cancer genomes are caused by multiple mutational processes, each of
which generates a characteristic mutational signature. Here, as part of the Pan-Cancer …

MutationalPatterns: comprehensive genome-wide analysis of mutational processes

F Blokzijl, R Janssen, R Van Boxtel, E Cuppen - Genome medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background Base substitution catalogues represent historical records of mutational
processes that have been active in a cell. Such processes can be distinguished by various …

Uncovering novel mutational signatures by de novo extraction with SigProfilerExtractor

SMA Islam, M Díaz-Gay, Y Wu, M Barnes, R Vangara… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Mutational signature analysis is commonly performed in cancer genomic studies. Here, we
present SigProfilerExtractor, an automated tool for de novo extraction of mutational …

Aristolochic acids and their derivatives are widely implicated in liver cancers in Taiwan and throughout Asia

AWT Ng, SL Poon, MN Huang, JQ Lim, A Boot… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Many traditional pharmacopeias include Aristolochia and related plants, which contain
nephrotoxins and mutagens in the form of aristolochic acids and similar compounds …

MutationalPatterns: the one stop shop for the analysis of mutational processes

F Manders, AM Brandsma, J de Kanter, M Verheul… - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background The collective of somatic mutations in a genome represents a record of
mutational processes that have been operative in a cell. These processes can be …

SigProfilerMatrixGenerator: a tool for visualizing and exploring patterns of small mutational events

EN Bergstrom, MN Huang, U Mahto, M Barnes… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Cancer genomes are peppered with somatic mutations imprinted by different
mutational processes. The mutational pattern of a cancer genome can be used to identify …

The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer

LB Alexandrov, J Kim, NJ Haradhvala, MN Huang… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Somatic mutations in cancer genomes are caused by multiple mutational processes each of
which generates a characteristic mutational signature. Using 84,729,690 somatic mutations …

Genomic landscape of TCRαβ and TCRγδ T-large granular lymphocyte leukemia

HJ Cheon, JC Xing, KB Moosic, J Ung… - Blood, The Journal …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia comprises a group of rare lymphoproliferative
disorders whose molecular landscape is incompletely defined. We leveraged paired whole …