In vitro assays and techniques utilized in anticancer drug discovery

MK Ediriweera, KH Tennekoon… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Development of a cancer is a multistep process and six major hallmarks of cancer
that are known to control malignant transformation have been described. Anticancer drug …

Scalable whole-exome sequencing of cell-free DNA reveals high concordance with metastatic tumors

VA Adalsteinsson, G Ha, SS Freeman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Whole-exome sequencing of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) could enable comprehensive profiling of
tumors from blood but the genome-wide concordance between cfDNA and tumor biopsies is …

The genetic basis and cell of origin of mixed phenotype acute leukaemia

TB Alexander, Z Gu, I Iacobucci, K Dickerson, JK Choi… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Mixed phenotype acute leukaemia (MPAL) is a high-risk subtype of leukaemia with myeloid
and lymphoid features, limited genetic characterization, and a lack of consensus regarding …

FACETS: allele-specific copy number and clonal heterogeneity analysis tool for high-throughput DNA sequencing

R Shen, VE Seshan - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Allele-specific copy number analysis (ASCN) from next generation sequencing (NGS) data
can greatly extend the utility of NGS beyond the identification of mutations to precisely …

Spatial and temporal diversity in genomic instability processes defines lung cancer evolution

EC De Bruin, N McGranahan, R Mitter, M Salm… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Spatial and temporal dissection of the genomic changes occurring during the evolution of
human non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may help elucidate the basis for its dismal …

Development and validation of a clinical cancer genomic profiling test based on massively parallel DNA sequencing

GM Frampton, A Fichtenholtz, GA Otto, K Wang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
As more clinically relevant cancer genes are identified, comprehensive diagnostic
approaches are needed to match patients to therapies, raising the challenge of optimization …

Whole-genome sequencing and comprehensive molecular profiling identify new driver mutations in gastric cancer

K Wang, ST Yuen, J Xu, SP Lee, HHN Yan, ST Shi… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Gastric cancer is a heterogeneous disease with diverse molecular and histological
subtypes. We performed whole-genome sequencing in 100 tumor-normal pairs, along with …

Technical and implementation issues in using next-generation sequencing of cancers in clinical practice

D Ulahannan, MB Kovac, PJ Mulholland… - British journal of …, 2013 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) of cancer genomes promises to revolutionise oncology,
with the ability to design and use targeted drugs, to predict outcome and response, and to …

PyClone: statistical inference of clonal population structure in cancer

A Roth, J Khattra, D Yap, A Wan, E Laks, J Biele… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
We introduce PyClone, a statistical model for inference of clonal population structures in
cancers. PyClone is a Bayesian clustering method for grouping sets of deeply sequenced …

Absolute quantification of somatic DNA alterations in human cancer

SL Carter, K Cibulskis, E Helman, A McKenna… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
We describe a computational method that infers tumor purity and malignant cell ploidy
directly from analysis of somatic DNA alterations. The method, named ABSOLUTE, can …