AI-based histopathology image analysis reveals a distinct subset of endometrial cancers

A Darbandsari, H Farahani, M Asadi, M Wiens… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Endometrial cancer (EC) has four molecular subtypes with strong prognostic value and
therapeutic implications. The most common subtype (NSMP; No Specific Molecular Profile) …

Clinical behavior and molecular landscape of stage I P53-abnormal low-grade Endometrioid endometrial Carcinomas

A Jamieson, L Vermij, CJH Kramer, JJ Jobsen… - Clinical Cancer …, 2023 - AACR
Purpose: The clinical significance of the p53-abnormal (p53abn) molecular subtype in stage
I low-grade endometrioid endometrial carcinoma (EEC) is debated. We aimed to review …

Polyclonality overcomes fitness barriers in Apc-driven tumorigenesis

ID Sadien, S Adler, S Mehmed, S Bailey, A Sawle… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Loss-of-function mutations in the tumour suppressor APC are an initial step in intestinal
tumorigenesis 1, 2. APC-mutant intestinal stem cells outcompete their wild-type neighbours …

Cancer phylogenetic inference using copy number alterations detected from DNA sequencing data

B Lu - Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy, 2024 - mednexus.org
Cancer is an evolutionary process involving the accumulation of diverse somatic mutations
and clonal evolution over time. Phylogenetic inference from samples obtained from an …

CNETML: maximum likelihood inference of phylogeny from copy number profiles of multiple samples

B Lu, K Curtius, TA Graham, Z Yang, CP Barnes - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Phylogenetic trees based on copy number profiles from multiple samples of a patient are
helpful to understand cancer evolution. Here, we develop a new maximum likelihood …

Longitudinal monitoring of disease burden and response using ctDNA from dried blood spots in xenograft models

CM Sauer, K Heider, J Belic, SE Boyle… - EMBO Molecular …, 2022 - embopress.org
Whole‐genome sequencing (WGS) of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) is now a clinically
important biomarker for predicting therapy response, disease burden and disease …

scAbsolute: measuring single-cell ploidy and replication status

MP Schneider, AE Cullen, J Pangonyte, J Skelton… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Cancer cells often exhibit DNA copy number aberrations and can vary widely in their ploidy.
Correct estimation of the ploidy of single-cell genomes is paramount for downstream …

Molecular landscape and functional characterization of centrosome amplification in ovarian cancer

CM Sauer, JA Hall, DL Couturier, T Bradley… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is characterised by poor outcome and
extreme chromosome instability (CIN). Therapies targeting centrosome amplification (CA), a …

CNHplus: the chromosomal copy number heterogeneity which respects biological constraints

M Grendár, P Martínek, D Loderer, O Ondič - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
ABSTRACT Motivation Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity (ITH) is a hallmark of cancer. ITH
influences evolution of tumors and hence also affects patients survival. There are several …

Measuring ongoing chromosomal instability in single-cell DNA sequencing data

M Schneider - 2024 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Chromosomal instability is a characteristic hallmark of cancer. It is providing part of the
genomic variation that makes cancer so heterogeneous and difficult to treat. Consequently …