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1. Whole-genome doubling drives oncogenic loss of chromatin segregation

Author: Ruxandra A. Lambuta, Luca Nanni, Yuanlong Liu, Juan Diaz-Miyar, Arvind Iyer, Daniele Tavernari, Natalya Katanayeva, Giovanni Ciriello, and Elisa Oricchio
Subjects: mechanisms, hi-c, Multidisciplinary, chromosomal instability, copy number, cancer, progression, histone, inactivation, single-cell, principles, Humans, Chromatin/genetics, Chromatin/metabolism, Chromosome Aberrations, Neoplasms/genetics, Chromosomes, Human/genetics, Genome, Human/genetics, Chromosome Segregation/genetics, Carcinogenesis/genetics, Epigenesis, Genetic, Disease Progression, Transcription, Genetic, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
Abstract: Whole-genome doubling (WGD) is a recurrent event in human cancers and it promotes chromosomal instability and acquisition of aneuploidies1–8. However, the three-dimensional organization of chromatin in WGD cells and its contribution to oncogenic phenotypes are currently unknown. Here we show that in p53-deficient cells, WGD induces loss of chromatin segregation (LCS). This event is characterized by reduced segregation between short and long chromosomes, A and B subcompartments and adjacent chromatin domains. LCS is driven by the downregulation of CTCF and H3K9me3 in cells that bypassed activation of the tetraploid checkpoint. Longitudinal analyses revealed that LCS primes genomic regions for subcompartment repositioning in WGD cells. This results in chromatin and epigenetic changes associated with oncogene activation in tumours ensuing from WGD cells. Notably, subcompartment repositioning events were largely independent of chromosomal alterations, which indicates that these were complementary mechanisms contributing to tumour development and progression. Overall, LCS initiates chromatin conformation changes that ultimately result in oncogenic epigenetic and transcriptional modifications, which suggests that chromatin evolution is a hallmark of WGD-driven cancer.
Published: 2023

2. Systematic assessment of gene co-regulation within chromatin domains determines differentially active domains across human cancers

Author: Daniele Tavernari, Marie Zufferey, Marco Mina, Yuanlong Liu, and Giovanni Ciriello
Subjects: Transcription, Genetic, Co-regulation, QH301-705.5, Datasets as Topic, Computational biology, Biology, QH426-470, Genetic Heterogeneity, Structure-Activity Relationship, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Transcription (biology), Hi-C, Neoplasms, Transcriptional regulation, Genetics, Humans, Gene Regulatory Networks, Biology (General), Gene, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Research, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Chromatin, Human genetics, Neoplasm Proteins, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Differentially expressed genes, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Gene co-regulation, Chromatin compartment domains, Algorithms, Function (biology)
Abstract: BackgroundSpatial interactions and insulation of chromatin regions are associated with transcriptional regulation. Domains of frequent chromatin contacts are proposed as functional units, favoring and delimiting gene regulatory interactions. However, contrasting evidence supports the association between chromatin domains and transcription.ResultHere, we assess gene co-regulation in chromatin domains across multiple human cancers, which exhibit great transcriptional heterogeneity. Across all datasets, gene co-regulation is observed only within a small yet significant number of chromatin domains. We design an algorithmic approach to identify differentially active domains (DADo) between two conditions and show that these provide complementary information to differentially expressed genes. Domains comprising co-regulated genes are enriched in the less active B sub-compartments and for genes with similar function. Notably, differential activation of chromatin domains is not associated with major changes of domain boundaries, but rather with changes of sub-compartments and intra-domain contacts.ConclusionOverall, gene co-regulation is observed only in a minority of chromatin domains, whose systematic identification will help unravel the relationship between chromatin structure and transcription.
Published: 2021

3. Discovering functional evolutionary dependencies in human cancers

Author: Franck Raynaud, Marco Mina, Arvind Iyer, Daniele Tavernari, and Giovanni Ciriello
Subjects: Cell Survival, Class I Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, Datasets as Topic, Genomics, Computational biology, Biology, Genome, Cohort Studies, Evolution, Molecular, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Cell Line, Tumor, Neoplasms, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Selection, Genetic, PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Computational Biology, Cancer, Oncogene Addiction, medicine.disease, Phenotype, 3. Good health, Tumor progression, Cancer cell, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genes, Neoplasm
Abstract: Cancer cells retain genomic alterations that provide a selective advantage. The prediction and validation of advantageous alterations are major challenges in cancer genomics. Moreover, it is crucial to understand how the coexistence of specific alterations alters response to genetic and therapeutic perturbations. In the present study, we inferred functional alterations and preferentially selected combinations of events in >9,000 human tumors. Using a Bayesian inference framework, we validated computational predictions with high-throughput readouts from genetic and pharmacological screenings on 2,000 cancer cell lines. Mutually exclusive and co-occurring cancer alterations reflected, respectively, functional redundancies able to rescue the phenotype of individual target inhibition, or synergistic interactions, increasing oncogene addiction. Among the top scoring dependencies, co-alteration of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) subunit PIK3CA and the nuclear factor NFE2L2 was a synergistic evolutionary trajectory in squamous cell carcinomas. By integrating computational, experimental and clinical evidence, we provide a framework to study the combinatorial functional effects of cancer genomic alterations. Computational analysis of over 9,000 cancer genomes, coupled with functional validation in cell lines, highlights combinations of mutations required for tumor progression. This integrated approach provides a framework to stratify patients on the basis of interdependent genetic aberrations.
Published: 2020
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4. One size does not fit all for mutational signatures

Author: Giovanni, Ciriello
Subjects: Biochemical Phenomena, Genome, Human, Mutation, Humans
Published: 2022

5. Epistasis and evolutionary dependencies in human cancers

Author: Marco, Mina, Arvind, Iyer, and Giovanni, Ciriello
Subjects: Phenotype, Neoplasms, Genetics, Humans, Epistasis, Genetic, Genomics, Precision Medicine, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Cancer evolution is driven by the concerted action of multiple molecular alterations, which emerge and are selected during tumor progression. An alteration is selected when it provides an advantage to the tumor cell. However, the advantage provided by a specific alteration depends on the tumor lineage, cell epigenetic state, and presence of additional alterations. In this case, we say that an evolutionary dependency exists between an alteration and what influences its selection. Epistatic interactions between altered genes lead to evolutionary dependencies (EDs), by favoring or vetoing specific combinations of events. Large-scale cancer genomics studies have discovered examples of such dependencies, and showed that they influence tumor progression, disease phenotypes, and therapeutic response. In the past decade, several algorithmic approaches have been proposed to infer EDs from large-scale genomics datasets. These methods adopt diverse strategies to address common challenges and shed new light on cancer evolutionary trajectories. Here, we review these efforts starting from a simple conceptualization of the problem, presenting the tackled and still unmet needs in the field, and discussing the implications of EDs in cancer biology and precision oncology.
Published: 2022
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6. Cell-autonomous inflammation of BRCA1-deficient ovarian cancers drives both tumor-intrinsic immunoreactivity and immune resistance through STING

Author: Matteo Morotti, Sora Chee, Eleonora Ghisoni, Julien Dagher, Mauro Delorenzi, Raphael Genolet, George Coukos, David Barras, Lana E. Kandalaft, Denarda Dangaj Laniti, Michal Bassani-Sternberg, Catherine Ronet, Bing Ren, Julien Dorier, Alizée J. Grimm, Marco Mina, Alexandre Harari, Christian Iseli, Josephine Walton, Mathieu Desbuisson, Hualing Zhang, Theodora Tsianou, Sara Bobisse, Giovanni Ciriello, Melita Irving, Brian Stevenson, Sylvie Rusakiewicz, Elizabeth M. Swisher, Chloe Chong, Noémie Fahr, Evripidis Lanitis, Periklis G. Foukas, Iain A. McNeish, Fabio Martinon, Marine Bruand, Cancer Research UK, and Ovarian Cancer Action
Subjects: Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A, Chemokine, Transcription, Genetic, T-Lymphocytes, 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology, VEGF-A, Epigenesis, Genetic, angiogenesis, Medicine, dual immune checkpoint blockade, Chemokine CCL5, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, Ovarian Neoplasms, biology, Neovascularization, Pathologic, BRCA1 Protein, Chromatin, ovarian cancer, Female, medicine.symptom, DNA sensing, PD-L1, PARPi, T cells, Inflammation, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, CCL5, Article, Cell Line, Tumor, Animals, Humans, Gene Silencing, ICB, business.industry, Membrane Proteins, DNA, BRCA1, Immune checkpoint, eye diseases, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Sting, CTLA-4, Tumor progression, 1116 Medical Physiology, biology.protein, Cancer research, Interferons, Neoplasm Grading, business, type I IFN, DNA Damage, STING
Abstract: SUMMARY In this study, we investigate mechanisms leading to inflammation and immunoreactivity in ovarian tumors with homologous recombination deficiency (HRD). BRCA1 loss is found to lead to transcriptional reprogramming in tumor cells and cell-intrinsic inflammation involving type I interferon (IFN) and stimulator of IFN genes (STING). BRCA1-mutated (BRCA1mut) tumors are thus T cell inflamed at baseline. Genetic deletion or methylation of DNA-sensing/IFN genes or CCL5 chemokine is identified as a potential mechanism to attenuate T cell inflammation. Alternatively, in BRCA1mut cancers retaining inflammation, STING upregulates VEGF-A, mediating immune resistance and tumor progression. Tumor-intrinsic STING elimination reduces neoangiogenesis, increases CD8+ T cell infiltration, and reverts therapeutic resistance to dual immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). VEGF-A blockade phenocopies genetic STING loss and synergizes with ICB and/or poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors to control the outgrowth of Trp53−/−Brca1−/− but not Brca1+/+ ovarian tumors in vivo, offering rational combinatorial therapies for HRD cancers., Graphical abstract, In brief Bruand et al. provide insights into the dual role of STING in promoting tumor-intrinsic mechanisms of both immunoreactivity, driven by DNA sensing and type I IFN, and also VEGF-A-driven immune resistance in BRCA1mut ovarian cancers. STING elimination reduces neoangiogenesis, increases CD8+ T cell infiltration, and reverts therapeutic resistance to dual ICB.
Published: 2021

7. Tcf1 is essential for initiation of oncogenic Notch1-driven chromatin topology in T-ALL

Author: Mateusz Antoszewski, Nadine Fournier, Gustavo A. Ruiz Buendía, Joao Lourenco, Yuanlong Liu, Tara Sugrue, Christelle Dubey, Marianne Nkosi, Colin E. J. Pritchard, Ivo J. Huijbers, Gabriela C. Segat, Sandra Alonso-Moreno, Elisabeth Serracanta, Laura Belver, Adolfo A. Ferrando, Giovanni Ciriello, Andrew P. Weng, Ute Koch, and Freddy Radtke
Subjects: long-term, Carcinogenesis, Immunology, beta-catenin, Cell Biology, Hematology, Oncogenes, Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Biochemistry, gene-expression, hematopoiesis, Chromatin, stem-cells, specification, cell development, hemic and lymphatic diseases, transcription factors, Cell Line, Tumor, Humans, Receptor, Notch1, genome, notch
Abstract: NOTCH1 is a well-established lineage specifier for T cells and among the most frequently mutated genes throughout all subclasses of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). How oncogenic NOTCH1 signaling launches a leukemia-prone chromatin landscape during T-ALL initiation is unknown. Here we demonstrate an essential role for the high-mobility-group transcription factor Tcf1 in orchestrating chromatin accessibility and topology, allowing aberrant Notch1 signaling to convey its oncogenic function. Although essential, Tcf1 is not sufficient to initiate leukemia. The formation of a leukemia-prone epigenetic landscape at the distal Notch1-regulated Myc enhancer, which is fundamental to this disease, is Tcf1-dependent and occurs within the earliest progenitor stage even before cells adopt a T lymphocyte or leukemic fate. Moreover, we discovered a unique evolutionarily conserved Tcf1-regulated enhancer element in the distal Myc-enhancer, which is important for the transition of preleukemic cells to full-blown disease.
Published: 2021

8. The serine hydroxymethyltransferase-2 (SHMT2) initiates lymphoma development through epigenetic tumor suppressor silencing

Author: Jiahui Wang, Chunying Zhao, Hsia-Yuan Ying, Byoung-Kyu Cho, Wayne Tam, Kıvanç Birsoy, Ari Melnick, Michael R. Green, Neil L. Kelleher, Nicholas D. Socci, David Kuo, Javier Garcia-Bermudez, Ana Ortega-Molina, Elisa de Stanchina, Joyce P. Pasion, Prathibha Mohan, Ahmet Dogan, Shenqiu Wang, Ed Reznik, Paul M. Thomas, Man Jiang, Giovanni Ciriello, Sara Parsa, Matt Teater, Hans-Guido Wendel, Neeraj Jain, Sheng Li, and Jeannie M. Camarillo
Subjects: Glycine Hydroxymethyltransferase, Cancer Research, Lymphoma, Biology, Article, Epigenesis, Genetic, Serine, PTPRM, Oncology, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2, Serine hydroxymethyltransferase, hemic and lymphatic diseases, Cancer cell, Histone methylation, Cancer research, Gene silencing, Humans, Epigenetics, Gene, Cell Proliferation
Abstract: Cancer cells adapt their metabolic activities to support growth and proliferation. However, increased activity of metabolic enzymes is not usually considered an initiating event in the malignant process. Here, we investigate the possible role of the enzyme serine hydroxymethyltransferase-2 (SHMT2) in lymphoma initiation. SHMT2 localizes to the most frequent region of copy number gains at chromosome 12q14.1 in lymphoma. Elevated expression of SHMT2 cooperates with BCL2 in lymphoma development; loss or inhibition of SHMT2 impairs lymphoma cell survival. SHMT2 catalyzes the conversion of serine to glycine and produces an activated one-carbon unit that can be used to support S-adenosyl methionine synthesis. SHMT2 induces changes in DNA and histone methylation patterns leading to promoter silencing of previously uncharacterized mutational genes, such as SASH1 and PTPRM. Together, our findings reveal that amplification of SHMT2 in cooperation with BCL2 is sufficient in the initiation of lymphomagenesis through epigenetic tumor suppressor silencing. Parsa et al. report a mechanism of lymphoma initiation involving cooperation of BCL2 and increased activity of the metabolic enzyme SHMT2, which imparts changes in DNA and histone methylation.
Published: 2021

9. Sustained androgen receptor signaling is a determinant of melanoma cell growth potential and tumorigenesis

Author: Giovanni Ciriello, Ping-Chih Ho, Luigi Mazzeo, Justine Epiney, Atul Katarkar, Yi-Ru Yu, G. Paolo Dotto, Andrea Clocchiatti, Daniele Tavernari, Reinhard Dummer, Mitchell P. Levesque, Anastasia Samarkina, Min Ma, Berna C. Özdemir, Soumitra Ghosh, University of Zurich, and Dotto, G Paolo
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, DNA Repair, Carcinogenesis, medicine.medical_treatment, Mice, SCID, medicine.disease_cause, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, Interferon, Mice, Inbred NOD, Gene expression, Cytotoxic T cell, Immunology and Allergy, Melanoma, 0303 health sciences, Chemistry, 10177 Dermatology Clinic, 3. Good health, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Cytokine, Receptors, Androgen, Stimulator of interferon genes, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, 2723 Immunology and Allergy, Female, RNA Polymerase II, Signal transduction, medicine.drug, Signal Transduction, DNA repair, DNA damage, Immunology, Down-Regulation, 610 Medicine & health, Biology, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Cell Line, Tumor, medicine, Gene silencing, Animals, Humans, 030304 developmental biology, Cell Proliferation, 2403 Immunology, Cell growth, medicine.disease, Androgen receptor, Mice, Inbred C57BL, 030104 developmental biology, Cancer research, 610 Medizin und Gesundheit, Human Disease Genetics, DNA Damage
Abstract: Ma et al. uncovers an essential role of AR signaling in melanoma cell expansion and tumorigenesis, with loss of AR activity inducing cellular senescence, genomic DNA breakage, a STING-dependent inflammatory cascade, and immune cell recruitment, providing an attractive venue for new combination approaches to disease management., Melanoma susceptibility differs significantly in male versus female populations. Low levels of androgen receptor (AR) in melanocytes of the two sexes are accompanied by heterogeneous expression at various stages of the disease. Irrespective of expression levels, genetic and pharmacological suppression of AR activity in melanoma cells blunts proliferation and induces senescence, while increased AR expression or activation exert opposite effects. AR down-modulation elicits a shared gene expression signature associated with better patient survival, related to interferon and cytokine signaling and DNA damage/repair. AR loss leads to dsDNA breakage, cytoplasmic leakage, and STING activation, with AR anchoring the DNA repair proteins Ku70/Ku80 to RNA Pol II and preventing RNA Pol II–associated DNA damage. AR down-modulation or pharmacological inhibition suppresses melanomagenesis, with increased intratumoral infiltration of macrophages and, in an immune-competent mouse model, cytotoxic T cells. AR provides an attractive target for improved management of melanoma independent of patient sex., Graphical Abstract
Published: 2020
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10. Nongenetic Evolution Drives Lung Adenocarcinoma Spatial Heterogeneity and Progression

Author: Marco Mina, Solange Peters, Elie Dheilly, David Gfeller, Thorsten Krueger, Aaron S. Petruzzella, Giovanni Ciriello, Jessica Sordet-Dessimoz, Igor Letovanec, Nicolo Riggi, Daniele Tavernari, Elisa Oricchio, and Elena Battistello
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Lung Neoplasms, early-stage, Context (language use), Adenocarcinoma of Lung, Adenocarcinoma of Lung/genetics, Disease Progression, Genetic Heterogeneity, Humans, Lung Neoplasms/genetics, Tumor Microenvironment, Biology, open-label, 03 medical and health sciences, bioconductor package, 0302 clinical medicine, Immune system, tumor-suppressor gene, expression, medicine, cancer, mouse models, Epigenetics, Lung, medicine.disease, never smokers, 3. Good health, Spatial heterogeneity, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Cancer cell, Cancer research, Adenocarcinoma, somatic mutations, immunotherapy, Reprogramming
Abstract: Cancer evolution determines molecular and morphologic intratumor heterogeneity and challenges the design of effective treatments. In lung adenocarcinoma, disease progression and prognosis are associated with the appearance of morphologically diverse tumor regions, termed histologic patterns. However, the link between molecular and histologic features remains elusive. Here, we generated multiomics and spatially resolved molecular profiles of histologic patterns from primary lung adenocarcinoma, which we integrated with molecular data from >2,000 patients. The transition from indolent to aggressive patterns was not driven by genetic alterations but by epigenetic and transcriptional reprogramming reshaping cancer cell identity. A signature quantifying this transition was an independent predictor of patient prognosis in multiple human cohorts. Within individual tumors, highly multiplexed protein spatial profiling revealed coexistence of immune desert, inflamed, and excluded regions, which matched histologic pattern composition. Our results provide a detailed molecular map of lung adenocarcinoma intratumor spatial heterogeneity, tracing nongenetic routes of cancer evolution., SIGNIFICANCE: Lung adenocarcinomas are classified based on histologic pattern prevalence. However, individual tumors exhibit multiple patterns with unknown molecular features. We characterized nongenetic mechanisms underlying intratumor patterns and molecular markers predicting patient prognosis. Intratumor patterns determined diverse immune microenvironments, warranting their study in the context of current immunotherapies.
Published: 2020

11. Prediction of neo-epitope immunogenicity reveals TCR recognition determinants and provides insight into immunoediting

Author: Sara Bobisse, Daniel E. Speiser, Alexandre Harari, Jason R. Devlin, Morgane Magnin, George Coukos, Santiago J. Carmona, Julien Schmidt, Michal Bassani-Sternberg, Giovanni Ciriello, Brian M. Baker, Julien Racle, Victor Bonnet, Julien Cesbron, Florian Huber, David Gfeller, and Angela R. Smith
Subjects: TCR recognition, immunoediting, immunogenicity, neo-epitope predictions, tumor immunology, medicine.medical_treatment, Antigen presentation, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte, Computational biology, Biology, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Epitope, Immune system, Cancer immunotherapy, Neoplasms, medicine, Humans, Antigen Presentation, Immunogenicity, T-cell receptor, Cancer, medicine.disease, Immunoediting, Immunotherapy, Peptides
Abstract: Summary CD8+ T cell recognition of peptide epitopes plays a central role in immune responses against pathogens and tumors. However, the rules that govern which peptides are truly recognized by existing T cell receptors (TCRs) remain poorly understood, precluding accurate predictions of neo-epitopes for cancer immunotherapy. Here, we capitalize on recent (neo-)epitope data to train a predictor of immunogenic epitopes (PRIME), which captures molecular properties of both antigen presentation and TCR recognition. PRIME not only improves prioritization of neo-epitopes but also correlates with T cell potency and unravels biophysical determinants of TCR recognition that we experimentally validate. Analysis of cancer genomics data reveals that recurrent mutations tend to be less frequent in patients where they are predicted to be immunogenic, providing further evidence for immunoediting in human cancer. PRIME will facilitate identification of pathogen epitopes in infectious diseases and neo-epitopes in cancer immunotherapy., Graphical Abstract, Highlights Development of a predictor of immunogenic CD8 T-cell epitopes (PRIME) PRIME shows improved prediction accuracy on neo-epitopes PRIME reveals molecular determinants of TCR recognition PRIME supports immunoediting of recurrent cancer mutations, Schmidt et al. develop a predictor of immunogenicity (PRIME) for CD8 T cell epitopes that captures antigen presentation on HLA molecules and TCR recognition. Their results reveal molecular determinants of TCR recognition and support immunoediting acting on recurrent cancer mutations.
Published: 2020

12. Machine Learning Detects Pan-cancer Ras Pathway Activation in The Cancer Genome Atlas

Author: Gregory P. Way, Francisco Sanchez-Vega, Konnor La, Joshua Armenia, Walid K. Chatila, Augustin Luna, Chris Sander, Andrew D. Cherniack, Marco Mina, Giovanni Ciriello, Nikolaus Schultz, Yolanda Sanchez, Casey S. Greene, Samantha J. Caesar-Johnson, John A. Demchok, Ina Felau, Melpomeni Kasapi, Martin L. Ferguson, Carolyn M. Hutter, Heidi J. Sofia, Roy Tarnuzzer, Zhining Wang, Liming Yang, Jean C. Zenklusen, Jiashan (Julia) Zhang, Sudha Chudamani, Jia Liu, Laxmi Lolla, Rashi Naresh, Todd Pihl, Qiang Sun, Yunhu Wan, Ye Wu, Juok Cho, Timothy DeFreitas, Scott Frazer, Nils Gehlenborg, Gad Getz, David I. Heiman, Jaegil Kim, Michael S. Lawrence, Pei Lin, Sam Meier, Michael S. Noble, Gordon Saksena, Doug Voet, Hailei Zhang, Brady Bernard, Nyasha Chambwe, Varsha Dhankani, Theo Knijnenburg, Roger Kramer, Kalle Leinonen, Yuexin Liu, Michael Miller, Sheila Reynolds, Ilya Shmulevich, Vesteinn Thorsson, Wei Zhang, Rehan Akbani, Bradley M. Broom, Apurva M. Hegde, Zhenlin Ju, Rupa S. Kanchi, Anil Korkut, Jun Li, Han Liang, Shiyun Ling, Wenbin Liu, Yiling Lu, Gordon B. Mills, Kwok-Shing Ng, Arvind Rao, Michael Ryan, Jing Wang, John N. Weinstein, Jiexin Zhang, Adam Abeshouse, Debyani Chakravarty, Ino de Bruijn, Jianjiong Gao, Benjamin E. Gross, Zachary J. Heins, Ritika Kundra, Marc Ladanyi, Moriah G. Nissan, Angelica Ochoa, Sarah M. Phillips, Ed Reznik, Robert Sheridan, S. Onur Sumer, Yichao Sun, Barry S. Taylor, Jioajiao Wang, Hongxin Zhang, Pavana Anur, Myron Peto, Paul Spellman, Christopher Benz, Joshua M. Stuart, Christopher K. Wong, Christina Yau, D. Neil Hayes, Joel S. Parker, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Adrian Ally, Miruna Balasundaram, Reanne Bowlby, Denise Brooks, Rebecca Carlsen, Eric Chuah, Noreen Dhalla, Robert Holt, Steven J.M. Jones, Katayoon Kasaian, Darlene Lee, Yussanne Ma, Marco A. Marra, Michael Mayo, Richard A. Moore, Andrew J. Mungall, Karen Mungall, A. Gordon Robertson, Sara Sadeghi, Jacqueline E. Schein, Payal Sipahimalani, Angela Tam, Nina Thiessen, Kane Tse, Tina Wong, Ashton C. Berger, Rameen Beroukhim, Carrie Cibulskis, Stacey B. Gabriel, Galen F. Gao, Gavin Ha, Matthew Meyerson, Steven E. Schumacher, Juliann Shih, Melanie H. Kucherlapati, Raju S. Kucherlapati, Stephen Baylin, Leslie Cope, Ludmila Danilova, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Phillip H. Lai, Dennis T. Maglinte, David J. Van Den Berg, Daniel J. Weisenberger, J. Todd Auman, Saianand Balu, Tom Bodenheimer, Cheng Fan, Katherine A. Hoadley, Alan P. Hoyle, Stuart R. Jefferys, Corbin D. Jones, Shaowu Meng, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Lisle E. Mose, Amy H. Perou, Charles M. Perou, Jeffrey Roach, Yan Shi, Janae V. Simons, Tara Skelly, Matthew G. Soloway, Donghui Tan, Umadevi Veluvolu, Huihui Fan, Toshinori Hinoue, Peter W. Laird, Hui Shen, Wanding Zhou, Michelle Bellair, Kyle Chang, Kyle Covington, Chad J. Creighton, Huyen Dinh, HarshaVardhan Doddapaneni, Lawrence A. Donehower, Jennifer Drummond, Richard A. Gibbs, Robert Glenn, Walker Hale, Yi Han, Jianhong Hu, Viktoriya Korchina, Sandra Lee, Lora Lewis, Wei Li, Xiuping Liu, Margaret Morgan, Donna Morton, Donna Muzny, Jireh Santibanez, Margi Sheth, Eve Shinbrot, Linghua Wang, Min Wang, David A. Wheeler, Liu Xi, Fengmei Zhao, Julian Hess, Elizabeth L. Appelbaum, Matthew Bailey, Matthew G. Cordes, Li Ding, Catrina C. Fronick, Lucinda A. Fulton, Robert S. Fulton, Cyriac Kandoth, Elaine R. Mardis, Michael D. McLellan, Christopher A. Miller, Heather K. Schmidt, Richard K. Wilson, Daniel Crain, Erin Curley, Johanna Gardner, Kevin Lau, David Mallery, Scott Morris, Joseph Paulauskis, Robert Penny, Candace Shelton, Troy Shelton, Mark Sherman, Eric Thompson, Peggy Yena, Jay Bowen, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Mark Gerken, Kristen M. Leraas, Tara M. Lichtenberg, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Lisa Wise, Erik Zmuda, Niall Corcoran, Tony Costello, Christopher Hovens, Andre L. Carvalho, Ana C. de Carvalho, José H. Fregnani, Adhemar Longatto-Filho, Rui M. Reis, Cristovam Scapulatempo-Neto, Henrique C.S. Silveira, Daniel O. Vidal, Andrew Burnette, Jennifer Eschbacher, Beth Hermes, Ardene Noss, Rosy Singh, Matthew L. Anderson, Patricia D. Castro, Michael Ittmann, David Huntsman, Bernard Kohl, Xuan Le, Richard Thorp, Chris Andry, Elizabeth R. Duffy, Vladimir Lyadov, Oxana Paklina, Galiya Setdikova, Alexey Shabunin, Mikhail Tavobilov, Christopher McPherson, Ronald Warnick, Ross Berkowitz, Daniel Cramer, Colleen Feltmate, Neil Horowitz, Adam Kibel, Michael Muto, Chandrajit P. Raut, Andrei Malykh, Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Wendi Barrett, Karen Devine, Jordonna Fulop, Quinn T. Ostrom, Kristen Shimmel, Yingli Wolinsky, Andrew E. Sloan, Agostino De Rose, Felice Giuliante, Marc Goodman, Beth Y. Karlan, Curt H. Hagedorn, John Eckman, Jodi Harr, Jerome Myers, Kelinda Tucker, Leigh Anne Zach, Brenda Deyarmin, Hai Hu, Leonid Kvecher, Caroline Larson, Richard J. Mural, Stella Somiari, Ales Vicha, Tomas Zelinka, Joseph Bennett, Mary Iacocca, Brenda Rabeno, Patricia Swanson, Mathieu Latour, Louis Lacombe, Bernard Têtu, Alain Bergeron, Mary McGraw, Susan M. Staugaitis, John Chabot, Hanina Hibshoosh, Antonia Sepulveda, Tao Su, Timothy Wang, Olga Potapova, Olga Voronina, Laurence Desjardins, Odette Mariani, Sergio Roman-Roman, Xavier Sastre, Marc-Henri Stern, Feixiong Cheng, Sabina Signoretti, Andrew Berchuck, Darell Bigner, Eric Lipp, Jeffrey Marks, Shannon McCall, Roger McLendon, Angeles Secord, Alexis Sharp, Madhusmita Behera, Daniel J. Brat, Amy Chen, Keith Delman, Seth Force, Fadlo Khuri, Kelly Magliocca, Shishir Maithel, Jeffrey J. Olson, Taofeek Owonikoko, Alan Pickens, Suresh Ramalingam, Dong M. Shin, Gabriel Sica, Erwin G. Van Meir, Hongzheng Zhang, Wil Eijckenboom, Ad Gillis, Esther Korpershoek, Leendert Looijenga, Wolter Oosterhuis, Hans Stoop, Kim E. van Kessel, Ellen C. Zwarthoff, Chiara Calatozzolo, Lucia Cuppini, Stefania Cuzzubbo, Francesco DiMeco, Gaetano Finocchiaro, Luca Mattei, Alessandro Perin, Bianca Pollo, Chu Chen, John Houck, Pawadee Lohavanichbutr, Arndt Hartmann, Christine Stoehr, Robert Stoehr, Helge Taubert, Sven Wach, Bernd Wullich, Witold Kycler, Dawid Murawa, Maciej Wiznerowicz, Ki Chung, W. Jeffrey Edenfield, Julie Martin, Eric Baudin, Glenn Bubley, Raphael Bueno, Assunta De Rienzo, William G. Richards, Steven Kalkanis, Tom Mikkelsen, Houtan Noushmehr, Lisa Scarpace, Nicolas Girard, Marta Aymerich, Elias Campo, Eva Giné, Armando López Guillermo, Nguyen Van Bang, Phan Thi Hanh, Bui Duc Phu, Yufang Tang, Howard Colman, Kimberley Evason, Peter R. Dottino, John A. Martignetti, Hani Gabra, Hartmut Juhl, Teniola Akeredolu, Serghei Stepa, Dave Hoon, Keunsoo Ahn, Koo Jeong Kang, Felix Beuschlein, Anne Breggia, Michael Birrer, Debra Bell, Mitesh Borad, Alan H. Bryce, Erik Castle, Vishal Chandan, John Cheville, John A. Copland, Michael Farnell, Thomas Flotte, Nasra Giama, Thai Ho, Michael Kendrick, Jean-Pierre Kocher, Karla Kopp, Catherine Moser, David Nagorney, Daniel O’Brien, Brian Patrick O’Neill, Tushar Patel, Gloria Petersen, Florencia Que, Michael Rivera, Lewis Roberts, Robert Smallridge, Thomas Smyrk, Melissa Stanton, R. Houston Thompson, Michael Torbenson, Ju Dong Yang, Lizhi Zhang, Fadi Brimo, Jaffer A. Ajani, Ana Maria Angulo Gonzalez, Carmen Behrens, Jolanta Bondaruk, Russell Broaddus, Bogdan Czerniak, Bita Esmaeli, Junya Fujimoto, Jeffrey Gershenwald, Charles Guo, Alexander J. Lazar, Christopher Logothetis, Funda Meric-Bernstam, Cesar Moran, Lois Ramondetta, David Rice, Anil Sood, Pheroze Tamboli, Timothy Thompson, Patricia Troncoso, Anne Tsao, Ignacio Wistuba, Candace Carter, Lauren Haydu, Peter Hersey, Valerie Jakrot, Hojabr Kakavand, Richard Kefford, Kenneth Lee, Georgina Long, Graham Mann, Michael Quinn, Robyn Saw, Richard Scolyer, Kerwin Shannon, Andrew Spillane, Jonathan Stretch, Maria Synott, John Thompson, James Wilmott, Hikmat Al-Ahmadie, Timothy A. Chan, Ronald Ghossein, Anuradha Gopalan, Douglas A. Levine, Victor Reuter, Samuel Singer, Bhuvanesh Singh, Nguyen Viet Tien, Thomas Broudy, Cyrus Mirsaidi, Praveen Nair, Paul Drwiega, Judy Miller, Jennifer Smith, Howard Zaren, Joong-Won Park, Nguyen Phi Hung, Electron Kebebew, W. Marston Linehan, Adam R. Metwalli, Karel Pacak, Peter A. Pinto, Mark Schiffman, Laura S. Schmidt, Cathy D. 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Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Neuroblastoma RAS viral oncogene homolog, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all), PATHOGENESIS, pan-cancer, PROTEIN, Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, medicine.disease_cause, computer.software_genre, Genome, Biochemistry, Transcriptome, Gene expression, HRAS, KRAS, NF1, NRAS, Ras, TCGA, drug sensitivity, machine learning, Neoplasms, PRECISION ONCOLOGY, lcsh:QH301-705.5, Regulation of gene expression, PREVIOUSLY TREATED PATIENTS, 3. Good health, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, PHASE-II, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Signal Transduction, Biology, Machine learning, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, BRAF, 03 medical and health sciences, Cell Line, Tumor, medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all), Humans, Gene, SIGNATURES, Science & Technology, business.industry, Genome, Human, MUTATIONS, EXPRESSÃO GÊNICA, Cell Biology, SELUMETINIB, GENE, 030104 developmental biology, lcsh:Biology (General), Selumetinib, ras Proteins, Artificial intelligence, business, computer
Abstract: SUMMARY Precision oncology uses genomic evidence to match patients with treatment but often fails to identify all patients who may respond. The transcriptome of these “hidden responders” may reveal responsive molecular states. We describe and evaluate a machine-learning approach to classify aberrant pathway activity in tumors, which may aid in hidden responder identification. The algorithm integrates RNA-seq, copy number, and mutations from 33 different cancer types across The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) PanCanAtlas project to predict aberrant molecular states in tumors. Applied to the Ras pathway, the method detects Ras activation across cancer types and identifies phenocopying variants. The model, trained on human tumors, can predict response to MEK inhibitors in wild-type Ras cell lines. We also present data that suggest that multiple hits in the Ras pathway confer increased Ras activity. The transcriptome is underused in precision oncology and, combined with machine learning, can aid in the identification of hidden responders., In Brief Way et al. develop a machine-learning approach using PanCanAtlas data to detect Ras activation in cancer. Integrating mutation, copy number, and expression data, the authors show that their method detects Ras-activating variants in tumors and sensitivity to MEK inhibitors in cell lines.
Published: 2018

13. Synaptic proximity enables NMDAR signalling to promote brain metastasis

Author: Brian D. McCabe, Douglas Hanahan, Graham Knott, Qiqun Zeng, Sadegh Saghafinia, Giovanni Ciriello, Peng Zhang, Inti Zlobec, Hugh P. C. Robinson, Wei Jiao, José A. Galván, Iacovos P. Michael, Robinson, Hugh [0000-0002-5048-9954], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, receptor, growth, Neuroligin, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, survival, Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate, Synaptic Transmission, Article, Metastasis, 03 medical and health sciences, Glutamatergic, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, Microscopy, Electron, Transmission, Cell Line, Tumor, glutamate release, medicine, Animals, Humans, Neoplasm Metastasis, Autocrine signalling, Multidisciplinary, phosphorylation, Brain Neoplasms, Glutamate receptor, Cancer, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Cancer cell, Synapses, Cancer research, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, 570 Life sciences, biology, Female, neuroligin, Brain metastasis, Signal Transduction
Abstract: Summary Metastasis - the disseminated growth of tumours in distant organs – underlies cancer mortality. Breast-to-brain metastasis (B2BM) is disconcertingly common and disruptive, being prevalent in the aggressive basal-like subtype, albeit evident at varying frequencies in all subtypes. Previous studies revealed parameters of breast cancer metastasis to brain, but its preference for this site remains an enigma. Herein we show that B2BM cells co-opt a neuronal signaling pathway recently implicated in invasive tumour growth, involving activation by glutamate ligand of an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR), whose signaling is demonstrably instrumental in model systems for metastatic colonization of the brain, and associated with poor prognosis. While NMDAR receptor activation is autocrine in some primary tumour types, human and mouse B2BM cells express receptors but secrete insufficient glutamate to activate signaling, which is instead supplied via the formation of pseudo-tripartite synapses between cancer cells and glutamatergic neurons, presenting an insidious rationale for brain metastasis.
Published: 2019

14. Comprehensive Pan-Genomic Characterization of Adrenocortical Carcinoma

Author: Siyuan Zheng, Andrew D. Cherniack, Ninad Dewal, Richard A. Moffitt, Ludmila Danilova, Bradley A. Murray, Antonio M. Lerario, Tobias Else, Theo A. Knijnenburg, Giovanni Ciriello, Seungchan Kim, Guillaume Assie, Olena Morozova, Rehan Akbani, Juliann Shih, Katherine A. Hoadley, Toni K. Choueiri, Jens Waldmann, Ozgur Mete, A. Gordon Robertson, Hsin-Ta Wu, Benjamin J. Raphael, Lina Shao, Matthew Meyerson, Michael J. Demeure, Felix Beuschlein, Anthony J. Gill, Stan B. Sidhu, Madson Q. Almeida, Maria C.B.V. Fragoso, Leslie M. Cope, Electron Kebebew, Mouhammed A. Habra, Timothy G. Whitsett, Kimberly J. Bussey, William E. Rainey, Sylvia L. Asa, Jérôme Bertherat, Martin Fassnacht, David A. Wheeler, Gary D. Hammer, Thomas J. Giordano, Roel G.W. Verhaak, Guillaume Assié, Hsin-Tu Wu, Madson Almeida, Maria Candida Barisson Fragoso, Mouhammed Amir Habra, Christopher Benz, Adrian Ally, Miruna Balasundaram, Reanne Bowlby, Denise Brooks, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Rebecca Carlsen, Noreen Dhalla, Ranabir Guin, Robert A. Holt, Steven J.M. Jones, Katayoon Kasaian, Darlene Lee, Haiyan I. Li, Lynette Lim, Yussanne Ma, Marco A. Marra, Michael Mayo, Richard A. Moore, Andrew J. Mungall, Karen Mungall, Sara Sadeghi, Jacqueline E. Schein, Payal Sipahimalani, Angela Tam, Nina Thiessen, Peter J. Park, Matthias Kroiss, Jianjiong Gao, Chris Sander, Nikolaus Schultz, Corbin D. Jones, Raju Kucherlapati, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Joel S. Parker, Charles M. Perou, Donghui Tan, Umadevi Veluvolu, Matthew D. Wilkerson, D. Neil Hayes, Marc Ladanyi, Marcus Quinkler, J. Todd Auman, Ana Claudia Latronico, Berenice B. Mendonca, Mathilde Sibony, Zack Sanborn, Michelle Bellair, Christian Buhay, Kyle Covington, Mahmoud Dahdouli, Huyen Dinh, Harsha Doddapaneni, Brittany Downs, Jennifer Drummond, Richard Gibbs, Walker Hale, Yi Han, Alicia Hawes, Jianhong Hu, Nipun Kakkar, Divya Kalra, Ziad Khan, Christine Kovar, Sandy Lee, Lora Lewis, Margaret Morgan, Donna Morton, Donna Muzny, Jireh Santibanez, Liu Xi, Bertrand Dousset, Lionel Groussin, Rossella Libé, Lynda Chin, Sheila Reynolds, Ilya Shmulevich, Sudha Chudamani, Jia Liu, Laxmi Lolla, Ye Wu, Jen Jen Yeh, Saianand Balu, Tom Bodenheimer, Alan P. Hoyle, Stuart R. Jefferys, Shaowu Meng, Lisle E. Mose, Yan Shi, Janae V. Simons, Matthew G. Soloway, Junyuan Wu, Wei Zhang, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, John A. Demchok, Ina Felau, Margi Sheth, Roy Tarnuzzer, Zhining Wang, Liming Yang, Jean C. Zenklusen, Jiashan (Julia) Zhang, Tanja Davidsen, Catherine Crawford, Carolyn M. Hutter, Heidi J. Sofia, Jeffrey Roach, Wiam Bshara, Carmelo Gaudioso, Carl Morrison, Patsy Soon, Shelley Alonso, Julien Baboud, Todd Pihl, Rohini Raman, Qiang Sun, Yunhu Wan, Rashi Naresh, Harindra Arachchi, Rameen Beroukhim, Scott L. Carter, Juok Cho, Scott Frazer, Stacey B. Gabriel, Gad Getz, David I. Heiman, Jaegil Kim, Michael S. Lawrence, Pei Lin, Michael S. Noble, Gordon Saksena, Steven E. Schumacher, Carrie Sougnez, Doug Voet, Hailei Zhang, Jay Bowen, Sara Coppens, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Mark Gerken, Carmen Helsel, Kristen M. Leraas, Tara M. Lichtenberg, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Lisa Wise, Erik Zmuda, Stephen Baylin, James G. Herman, Janine LoBello, Aprill Watanabe, David Haussler, Amie Radenbaugh, Arjun Rao, Jingchun Zhu, Detlef K. Bartsch, Silviu Sbiera, Bruno Allolio, Timo Deutschbein, Cristina Ronchi, Victoria M. Raymond, Michelle Vinco, Linda Amble, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Phillip H. Lai, David J. Van Den Berg, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Bruce Robinson, Zhenlin Ju, Hoon Kim, Shiyun Ling, Wenbin Liu, Yiling Lu, Gordon B. Mills, Kanishka Sircar, Qianghu Wang, Kosuke Yoshihara, Peter W. Laird, Yu Fan, Wenyi Wang, Eve Shinbrot, Martin Reincke, John N. Weinstein, Sam Meier, and Timothy Defreitas
Subjects: Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Cancer Research, Adolescent, Genomics, Biology, Genome, TERF2, Article, Disease-Free Survival, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Adrenocortical Carcinoma, medicine, Humans, Adrenocortical carcinoma, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Child, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Genetics, Genome, Human, business.industry, Gene Expression Profiling, Cell Biology, DNA Methylation, Middle Aged, Prognosis, medicine.disease, Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms, Human genetics, 3. Good health, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Gene expression profiling, 030104 developmental biology, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Mutation, Cancer cell, DNA methylation, Cancer research, Female, Human genome, business
Abstract: We describe a comprehensive genomic characterization of adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC). Using this dataset, we expand the catalogue of known ACC driver genes to include PRKAR1A, RPL22, TERF2, CCNE1, and NF1. Genome wide DNA copy-number analysis revealed frequent occurrence of massive DNA loss followed by whole-genome doubling (WGD), which was associated with aggressive clinical course, suggesting WGD is a hallmark of disease progression. Corroborating this hypothesis were increased TERT expression, decreased telomere length, and activation of cell-cycle programs. Integrated subtype analysis identified three ACC subtypes with distinct clinical outcome and molecular alterations which could be captured by a 68-CpG probe DNA-methylation signature, proposing a strategy for clinical stratification of patients based on molecular markers.
Published: 2016
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15. Comparison of computational methods for the identification of topologically associating domains

Author: Daniele Tavernari, Giovanni Ciriello, Marie Zufferey, and Elisa Oricchio
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Normalization (statistics), lcsh:QH426-470, Association (object-oriented programming), Animals, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Chromosomes, Genomics/methods, Humans, Mice, Hi-C, Method comparison, Topologically associating domain, Computational biology, Disjoint sets, Biology, principles, Chromosome conformation capture, 03 medical and health sciences, map, hi-c data, x-chromosome, genome, lcsh:QH301-705.5, Core set, Research, Genomics, organization, Multiple species, Chromatin, Identification (information), lcsh:Genetics, 030104 developmental biology, lcsh:Biology (General)
Abstract: Background Chromatin folding gives rise to structural elements among which are clusters of densely interacting DNA regions termed topologically associating domains (TADs). TADs have been characterized across multiple species, tissue types, and differentiation stages, sometimes in association with regulation of biological functions. The reliability and reproducibility of these findings are intrinsically related with the correct identification of these domains from high-throughput chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) experiments. Results Here, we test and compare 22 computational methods to identify TADs across 20 different conditions. We find that TAD sizes and numbers vary significantly among callers and data resolutions, challenging the definition of an average TAD size, but strengthening the hypothesis that TADs are hierarchically organized domains, rather than disjoint structural elements. Performances of these methods differ based on data resolution and normalization strategy, but a core set of TAD callers consistently retrieve reproducible domains, even at low sequencing depths, that are enriched for TAD-associated biological features. Conclusions This study provides a reference for the analysis of chromatin domains from Hi-C experiments and useful guidelines for choosing a suitable approach based on the experimental design, available data, and biological question of interest. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13059-018-1596-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Published: 2018

16. Pan-cancer inference of intra-tumor heterogeneity reveals associations with different forms of genomic instability

Author: Marco Mina, Franck Raynaud, Giovanni Ciriello, and Daniele Tavernari
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Genome instability, Cancer Research, DNA Repair, Gene Identification and Analysis, Datasets as Topic, Genetic Networks, Genome, 0302 clinical medicine, Mutation Rate, Chromosome instability, Neoplasms, Basic Cancer Research, APOBEC Deaminases/genetics, Algorithms, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, DNA Copy Number Variations, DNA Repair/genetics, Genome, Human/genetics, Genomic Instability, Humans, Models, Genetic, Neoplasms/genetics, Phylogeny, Software, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/genetics, Medicine and Health Sciences, APOBEC Deaminases, Genetics (clinical), Data Management, Genetics, Chromosome Biology, Phylogenetic Analysis, Genomics, Phenotype, Phylogenetics, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Network Analysis, Research Article, Computer and Information Sciences, Chromosome Structure and Function, lcsh:QH426-470, DNA repair, Biology, Research and Analysis Methods, Chromatin remodeling, Chromosomes, 03 medical and health sciences, Cancer Genomics, Genomic Medicine, Point Mutation, Evolutionary Systematics, Molecular Biology Techniques, Gene, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Taxonomy, Evolutionary Biology, Genome, Human, Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Cell Biology, Genome Analysis, lcsh:Genetics, 030104 developmental biology, Mutation, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, Cloning
Abstract: Genomic instability is a major driver of intra-tumor heterogeneity. However, unstable genomes often exhibit different molecular and clinical phenotypes, which are associated with distinct mutational processes. Here, we algorithmically inferred the clonal phylogenies of ~6,000 human tumors from 32 tumor types to explore how intra-tumor heterogeneity depends on different implementations of genomic instability. We found that extremely unstable tumors associated with DNA repair deficiencies or high chromosomal instability are not the most intrinsically heterogeneous. Conversely, intra-tumor heterogeneity is greatest in tumors exhibiting relatively high numbers of both mutations and copy number alterations, a feature often observed in cancers associated with exogenous mutagens. Independently of the type of instability, tumors with high number of clones invariably evolved through branching phylogenies that could be stratified based on the extent of clonal (early) and subclonal (late) instability. Interestingly, tumors with high number of subclonal mutations frequently exhibited chromosomal instability, TP53 mutations, and APOBEC-related mutational signatures. Vice versa, mutations of chromatin remodeling genes often characterized tumors with few subclonal but multiple clonal mutations. Understanding how intra-tumor heterogeneity depends on genomic instability is critical to identify markers predictive of the tumor complexity and envision therapeutic strategies able to exploit this association., Author summary Cancer is characterized by cells accumulating molecular alterations promoting specific phenotypic features, such as uncontrolled proliferation and survival. Cancer cells sometimes exhibit a high number of such alterations, often driven by defects of the DNA repair pathway or by external mutagens, such as tobacco smoking or UV-radiation. Highly altered cells are termed genomically unstable. A major consequence of genomic instability is that a single tumor is often composed by cells that have accumulated distinct alterations. This diversity is termed intra-tumor heterogeneity and represents a critical clinical challenge. In this study, we examined how different forms of genomic instability are associated with intra-tumor heterogeneity. We inferred intra-tumor heterogeneity in ~6000 human tumors and found that tumors with extreme mutational or chromosomal instability were not the tumors with the highest number of clones. Instead, tumors harboring both mutational and chromosomal alterations were the most diverse. Furthermore, we identified specific genetic fingerprints that are associated with early and/or late genomic instability. These results show that cancer genomic instability does not necessarily lead to high intra-tumor heterogeneity and, importantly, they provide markers to recognize when it does.
Published: 2018

17. Uncoupling protein 2 reprograms the tumor microenvironment to support the anti-tumor immune cycle

Author: Giovanni Ciriello, Alfred Zippelius, Marco Mina, Heinz Läubli, Fabien Franco, Yao-Chen Tsui, Tatiana V. Petrova, Wan-Chen Cheng, Benjamin O. Tschumi, Viktor H. Koelzer, Simone Ragusa, Pedro Romero, Daniel E. Speiser, Kirsten D. Mertz, and Ping-Chih Ho
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Programmed cell death, Skin Neoplasms, Immunology, Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor, Melanoma, Experimental, Immune cycle, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological, Cell Line, Tumor, medicine, Tumor Microenvironment, Immunology and Allergy, Animals, Humans, Uncoupling Protein 2, Tumor microenvironment, business.industry, Melanoma, Dendritic cell, Dendritic Cells, medicine.disease, Survival Analysis, Immune checkpoint, Blockade, Mice, Inbred C57BL, 030104 developmental biology, Treatment Outcome, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Interferon Regulatory Factors, Cancer research, Female, Immunotherapy, business, CD8, 030215 immunology
Abstract: Immune checkpoint blockade therapy has shifted the paradigm for cancer treatment. However, the majority of patients lack effective responses due to insufficient T cell infiltration in tumors. Here we show that expression of mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) in tumor cells determines the immunostimulatory feature of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and is positively associated with prolonged survival. UCP2 reprograms the immune state of the TME by altering its cytokine milieu in an interferon regulatory factor 5-dependent manner. Consequently, UCP2 boosts the conventional type 1 dendritic cell- and CD8+ T cell-dependent anti-tumor immune cycle and normalizes the tumor vasculature. Finally we show, using either a genetic or pharmacological approach, that induction of UCP2 sensitizes melanomas to programmed cell death protein-1 blockade treatment and elicits effective anti-tumor responses. Together, this study demonstrates that targeting the UCP2 pathway is a potent strategy for alleviating the immunosuppressive TME and overcoming the primary resistance of programmed cell death protein-1 blockade.
Published: 2018

18. Multilevel Genomics-Based Taxonomy of Renal Cell Carcinoma

Author: Yiling Lu, James J. Hsieh, Benny Abraham Kaipparettu, David A. Wheeler, Yiqun Zhang, A. Ari Hakimi, Kyle R. Covington, Rehan Akbani, Gordon B. Mills, Gad Getz, Brian Shuch, Hyojin Kang, Junehawk Lee, Jane H. Zhou, David J. Kwiatkowski, Thai H. Ho, Liu Xi, Guillermo de Velasco, Giovanni Ciriello, Yasin Senbabaoglu, Michael S. Noble, Chad J. Creighton, Andrew K. Godwin, Elizabeth P. Henske, Ed Reznik, Donna M. Muzny, Lixing Yang, Richard A. Gibbs, Goran Micevic, Toni K. Choueiri, Peter J. Park, Pheroze Tamboli, Eve Shinbrot, Fengju Chen, Donald P. Bottaro, Raju Kucherlapati, Victor E. Reuter, Jennifer Drummond, Chris Sander, and Carl Simon Shelley
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Chromophobe cell, Biology, Bioinformatics, urologic and male genital diseases, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, 0302 clinical medicine, microRNA, Humans, RNA, Messenger, Gene, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, lcsh:QH301-705.5, PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors, Gene Expression Profiling, TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases, Genomics, Immune checkpoint, Chromatin, Kidney Neoplasms, Gene expression profiling, Survival Rate, MicroRNAs, 030104 developmental biology, lcsh:Biology (General), 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Mutation, Cancer research, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, Clear cell, Signal Transduction
Abstract: On the basis of multidimensional and comprehensive molecular characterization (including DNA methylation and copy number, and RNA and protein expression), we classified 894 renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) of various histologic types into nine major genomic subtypes. Site of origin within the nephron was one major determinant in the classification, reflecting differences between clear cell, chromophobe, and papillary RCC. Widespread molecular changes associated with chromatin modifier genes or TFE3 gene fusion were present within specific subtypes as well as spanning multiple subtypes. Differences in patient survival and in alteration of specific pathways—including hypoxia, metabolism, MAP kinase, NRF2-ARE, Hippo, immune checkpoint, and PI3K/AKT/mTOR—could further distinguish the subtypes. Immune checkpoint markers and molecular signatures of T cell infiltrates were both highest in the subtype associated with aggressive clear cell RCC. Differences between the genomic subtypes suggest that therapeutic strategies could be tailored to each RCC disease subset.
Published: 2016

19. Comprehensive Genetic Landscape of Uveal Melanoma by Whole-Genome Sequencing

Author: Serge Leyvraz, Beryl Royer-Bertrand, Laureen Vallat, Leonidas Zografos, Carlo Rivolta, Giovanni Ciriello, Donata Rimoldi, Nicolo Riggi, Rosanna Pescini-Gobert, Ikram El Zaoui, Ann Schalenbourg, Alexandre Moulin, Matteo Torsello, Robert J. Klein, Franck Raynaud, Daniel E. Speiser, Katarina Cisarova, and Michael Nicolas
Subjects: Adult, Male, Uveal Neoplasms, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Case-Control Studies, DNA Copy Number Variations, Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-1/genetics, Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-1/metabolism, Exons, Female, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits/genetics, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits/metabolism, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gq-G11/genetics, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gq-G11/metabolism, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Melanocytes/pathology, Melanoma/diagnosis, Melanoma/genetics, Membrane Proteins/genetics, Membrane Proteins/metabolism, Middle Aged, Mutation, Phosphoproteins/genetics, Phosphoproteins/metabolism, RNA Splicing Factors/genetics, RNA Splicing Factors/metabolism, Skin Neoplasms, Tumor Suppressor Proteins/genetics, Tumor Suppressor Proteins/metabolism, Tumor Suppressor p53-Binding Protein 1/genetics, Tumor Suppressor p53-Binding Protein 1/metabolism, Ubiquitin Thiolesterase/genetics, Ubiquitin Thiolesterase/metabolism, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/genetics, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/metabolism, Uveal Neoplasms/diagnosis, Uveal Neoplasms/genetics, 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-1, Uveal Neoplasm, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, 03 medical and health sciences, Report, Molecular genetics, Genetics, medicine, Melanoma, Genetics (clinical), Whole genome sequencing, GNA11, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Membrane Proteins, Phosphoproteins, medicine.disease, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, Cutaneous melanoma, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gq-G11, Melanocytes, RNA Splicing Factors, Tumor Suppressor p53-Binding Protein 1, Ubiquitin Thiolesterase, GNAQ
Abstract: Uveal melanoma (UM) is a rare intraocular tumor that, similar to cutaneous melanoma, originates from melanocytes. To gain insights into its genetics, we performed whole-genome sequencing at very deep coverage of tumor-control pairs in 33 samples (24 primary and 9 metastases). Genome-wide, the number of coding mutations was rather low (only 17 variants per tumor on average; range 7–28), thus radically different from cutaneous melanoma, where hundreds of exonic DNA insults are usually detected. Furthermore, no UV light-induced mutational signature was identified. Recurrent coding mutations were found in the known UM drivers GNAQ, GNA11, BAP1, EIF1AX, and SF3B1. Other genes, i.e., TP53BP1, CSMD1, TTC28, DLK2, and KTN1, were also found to harbor somatic mutations in more than one individual, possibly indicating a previously undescribed association with UM pathogenesis. De novo assembly of unmatched reads from non-coding DNA revealed peculiar copy-number variations defining specific UM subtypes, which in turn could be associated with metastatic transformation. Mutational-driven comparison with other tumor types showed that UM is very similar to pediatric tumors, characterized by very few somatic insults and, possibly, important epigenetic changes. Through the analysis of whole-genome sequencing data, our findings shed new light on the molecular genetics of uveal melanoma, delineating it as an atypical tumor of the adult for which somatic events other than mutations in exonic DNA shape its genetic landscape and define its metastatic potential.
Published: 2016
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20. Comprehensive Molecular Portraits of Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer

Author: Giovanni Ciriello, Michael L. Gatza, Andrew H. Beck, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Suhn K. Rhie, Alessandro Pastore, Hailei Zhang, Michael McLellan, Christina Yau, Cyriac Kandoth, Reanne Bowlby, Hui Shen, Sikander Hayat, Robert Fieldhouse, Susan C. Lester, Gary M.K. Tse, Rachel E. Factor, Laura C. Collins, Kimberly H. Allison, Yunn-Yi Chen, Kristin Jensen, Nicole B. Johnson, Steffi Oesterreich, Gordon B. Mills, Andrew D. Cherniack, Gordon Robertson, Christopher Benz, Chris Sander, Peter W. Laird, Katherine A. Hoadley, Tari A. King, Charles M. Perou, Rehan Akbani, J. Todd Auman, Miruna Balasundaram, Saianand Balu, Thomas Barr, Andrew Beck, Stephen Benz, Mario Berrios, Rameen Beroukhim, Tom Bodenheimer, Lori Boice, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Jay Bowen, Denise Brooks, Lynda Chin, Juok Cho, Sudha Chudamani, Tanja Davidsen, John A. Demchok, Jennifer B. Dennison, Li Ding, Ina Felau, Martin L. Ferguson, Scott Frazer, Stacey B. Gabriel, JianJiong Gao, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Nils Gehlenborg, Mark Gerken, Gad Getz, William J. Gibson, D. Neil Hayes, David I. Heiman, Andrea Holbrook, Robert A. Holt, Alan P. Hoyle, Hai Hu, Mei Huang, Carolyn M. Hutter, E. Shelley Hwang, Stuart R. Jefferys, Steven J.M. Jones, Zhenlin Ju, Jaegil Kim, Phillip H. Lai, Michael S. Lawrence, Kristen M. Leraas, Tara M. Lichtenberg, Pei Lin, Shiyun Ling, Jia Liu, Wenbin Liu, Laxmi Lolla, Yiling Lu, Yussanne Ma, Dennis T. Maglinte, Elaine Mardis, Jeffrey Marks, Marco A. Marra, Cynthia McAllister, Shaowu Meng, Matthew Meyerson, Richard A. Moore, Lisle E. Mose, Andrew J. Mungall, Bradley A. Murray, Rashi Naresh, Michael S. Noble, Olufunmilayo Olopade, Joel S. Parker, Todd Pihl, Gordon Saksena, Steven E. Schumacher, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Nilsa C. Ramirez, W. Kimryn Rathmell, Jeffrey Roach, A. Gordon Robertson, Jacqueline E. Schein, Nikolaus Schultz, Margi Sheth, Yan Shi, Juliann Shih, Carl Simon Shelley, Craig Shriver, Janae V. Simons, Heidi J. Sofia, Matthew G. Soloway, Carrie Sougnez, Charlie Sun, Roy Tarnuzzer, Daniel G. Tiezzi, David J. Van Den Berg, Doug Voet, Yunhu Wan, Zhining Wang, John N. Weinstein, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Richard Wilson, Lisa Wise, Maciej Wiznerowicz, Junyuan Wu, Ye Wu, Liming Yang, Travis I. Zack, Jean C. Zenklusen, Jiashan Zhang, and Erik Zmuda
Subjects: Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 3-alpha, Models, Molecular, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, Transcriptome, Breast cancer, Antigens, CD, Carcinoma, medicine, PTEN, Humans, skin and connective tissue diseases, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast, GATA3, medicine.disease, Cadherins, body regions, Oncogene Protein v-akt, Carcinoma, Lobular, Invasive lobular carcinoma, Mutation, NEOPLASIAS (CLASSIFICAÇÃO), Cancer research, biology.protein, Female, FOXA1, Invasive Lobular Breast Carcinoma
Abstract: SummaryInvasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most prevalent histologic subtype of invasive breast cancer. Here, we comprehensively profiled 817 breast tumors, including 127 ILC, 490 ductal (IDC), and 88 mixed IDC/ILC. Besides E-cadherin loss, the best known ILC genetic hallmark, we identified mutations targeting PTEN, TBX3, and FOXA1 as ILC enriched features. PTEN loss associated with increased AKT phosphorylation, which was highest in ILC among all breast cancer subtypes. Spatially clustered FOXA1 mutations correlated with increased FOXA1 expression and activity. Conversely, GATA3 mutations and high expression characterized luminal A IDC, suggesting differential modulation of ER activity in ILC and IDC. Proliferation and immune-related signatures determined three ILC transcriptional subtypes associated with survival differences. Mixed IDC/ILC cases were molecularly classified as ILC-like and IDC-like revealing no true hybrid features. This multidimensional molecular atlas sheds new light on the genetic bases of ILC and provides potential clinical options.
Published: 2015
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21. Comprehensive, Integrative Genomic Analysis of Diffuse Lower-Grade Gliomas

Author: Noreen Dhalla, Saianand Balu, Alexander Potapov, Yiling Lu, Antonio Iavarone, Roel G.W. Verhaak, Alessandro Perin, Bradley A. Murray, Lee Lichtenstein, Nils Gehlenborg, Zhenlin Ju, Simon G. Coetzee, Stephanie Weaver, Gaetano Finocchiaro, Susan M. Staugaitis, Scott Morris, Da Yang, Rosy Singh, Erik Zmuda, Wei Zhang, Aaron D. Black, Roger E. McLendon, J. Bradley Elder, J. Todd Auman, Arvind Rao, Harshad S. Mahadeshwar, Yunhu Wan, Liming Yang, Stacey Gabriel, Andreas Unterberg, Adam E. Flanders, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Jianjiong Gao, Robert Penny, Andrew Wei Xu, Peter W. Laird, Gad Getz, Cynthia Taylor, Adrian Ally, Ilya Shmulevich, Tina Wong, Christopher M. McPherson, Heidi J. Sofia, Matthew G. Soloway, Jonna Grimsby, Caterina Giannini, Mark L. Cohen, Johanna Gardner, Semin Lee, Alan P. Hoyle, Jianhua Zhang, Thais S. Sabedot, Felicia Williams, Mia Grifford, Daniela Pretti da Cunha Tirapelli, David Van Den Berg, Margi Sheth, Ye Wu, Jenny Eschbacher, Marco A. Marra, Katherine A. Hoadley, Angeliki Pantazi, Chris Benz, Michael S. Noble, Christopher R. Pierson, Kristen M. Leraas, Roy Tarnuzzer, Suzanne Sifri, Huandong Sun, Greg Eley, Eyas M. Hattab, David I. Heiman, Rehan Akbani, Todd Pihl, Michael Parfenov, Erwin G. Van Meir, Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Peggy Yena, Josh Stuart, Richard A. Moore, Toshinori Hinoue, Kelly Senecal, Andrew D. Cherniack, Donald W. Parsons, Rileen Sinha, Dennis T. Maglinte, Timothy A. Chan, Reanne Bowlby, Phuong L. Nguyen, Juok Cho, Andrew E. Sloan, Alexei Protopopov, Matthew Schniederjan, Yun Wang, Yuexin Liu, Rameen Beroukhim, Kristian Cibulskis, Ty Abel, Ronald E. Warnick, Sahil Seth, Richard A. Gibbs, Rebecca Duell, W. Kimryn Rathmell, Jay Bowen, Michael S. Lawrence, Darell D. Bigner, Mary McGraw, Wen-Bin Liu, Xiaojia Ren, Umadevi Veluvolu, Erin Curley, Lynda Chin, Andy Chu, Laila M. Poisson, Harindra Arachchi, Jean C. Zenklusen, Ardene Noss, Sue E. Bell, Karen Devine, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Rebecca Carlsen, David Mallery, Eric S. Lipp, Hailei Zhang, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Andrew J. Mungall, Amie Radenbaugh, Luciano Neder, Sol Katzman, Lisa Iype, Shaowu Meng, Wendi Barrett, S. Onur Sumer, Katie Dicostanzo, Mark Vitucci, Phillip H. Lai, Vsevolod Shurkhay, D. Neil Hayes, Jiabin Tang, Hui Shen, Christopher A. Bristow, Stefania Cuzzubbo, Quinn T. Ostrom, Yasin Senbabaoglu, Ruth Steele, Peter J. Park, Jacqueline E. Schein, Lior Pachter, Jia Liu, Payal Sipahimalani, Angela Hadjipanayis, Scott L. Carter, Donghui Tan, Travis I. Zack, Kristen Shimmel, Steven E. Schumacher, Leigh B. Thorne, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Troy Shelton, Julien Baboud, Jianan Zhang, Olga Potapova, Stuart R. Jefferys, Andreas von Deimling, B. Arman Aksoy, Carrie Sougnez, Howard Colman, Tom Mikkelsen, Amanda Clarke, Houtan Noushmehr, Daniel Crain, Mark A. Jensen, D L Rotin, Stephen B. Baylin, Barry S. Taylor, Gordon Saksena, Benito Campos, Sudha Chudamani, Ouida Liu, Lisle E. Mose, Jonathan G. Seidman, Corbin D. Jones, Norman L. Lehman, Eric S. Lander, David Haussler, Franklin W. Huang, Nina Thiessen, Charles M. Perou, Gregory N. Fuller, Kosuke Yoshihara, C. Ryan Miller, Brenda Ayala, Dina Aziz, Sara Sadeghi, Cameron Brennan, Randy Mandt, Aditya Raghunathan, Jeffrey Roach, Robert A. Holt, Timothy J. Triche, Barbara Tabak, Kenneth Aldape, John N. Weinstein, Kevin Lau, Ady Kendler, Lee Cooper, Carlos Gilberto Carlotti, Siyuan Zheng, Isaac Joseph, Jason T. Huse, Steven J.M. Jones, Brady Bernard, Chip Stewart, Lixing Yang, Lisa Wise, A. Gordon Robertson, Ronglai Shen, Lisa Scarpace, Richard Kreisberg, Shiyun Ling, Michael Mayo, Jordonna Fulop, Cathy Brewer, Denise Brooks, Daniel E. Carlin, Nils Weinhold, Angela Tam, Beth Hermes, Kalle Leinonen, Giovanni Ciriello, Mahitha Vallurupalli, John A. Demchok, Bianca Pollo, Christel Herold-Mende, Rajan Jain, Liu Xi, Francesco DiMeco, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Tara M. Lichtenberg, Ashley Fehrenbach, Yingchun Liu, Miruna Balasundaram, Sofie R. Salama, Rivka R. Colen, Olena Morozova, Yussanne Ma, Zhining Wang, W. K. Alfred Yung, Scott R. VandenBerg, Esther Rheinbay, Junyuan Wu, Katayoon Kasaian, Tanja M. Davidsen, William A. Friedman, Kathy Smolenski, Yichao Sun, Anders Jacobsen, Chiara Calatozzolo, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Lucia Cuppini, Gordon B. Mills, Xingzhi Song, Joseph Paulauskis, Jaegil Kim, Pei Lin, Scott Frazer, William M. Lee, Evan O. Paull, Sheila A. Fisher, Carolyn M. Hutter, Janae V. Simons, Gene Barnett, Mara Rosenberg, Scot Waring, Timothy R. Fennell, Raju Kucherlapati, Christine Jungk, Martin L. Ferguson, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Cathy Schilero, Yingli Wolinsky, Rohini Raman, Zack Sanborn, Ranabir Guin, Matthew Meyerson, Daniel J. Brat, Cheryl A. Palmer, Nikolaus Schultz, Erik P. Sulman, Eric Chuah, Mark E. Sherman, Theo A. Knijnenburg, Mitchel S. Berger, Lihua Zou, Hoon Kim, Daniel DiCara, Sam Ng, Joel S. Parker, Sheila Reynolds, Raffaele Nunziata, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Natalie Tasman, Chris Sander, Doug Voet, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Brian P. O'Neill, Lori Boice, Brat D.J., Verhaak R.G.W., Aldape K.D., Yung W.K.A., Salama S.R., Cooper L.A.D., Rheinbay E., Miller C.R., Vitucci M., Morozova O., Robertson A.G., Noushmehr H., Laird P.W., Cherniack A.D., Akbani R., Huse J.T., Ciriello G., Poisson L.M., Barnholtz-Sloan J.S., Berger M.S., Brennan C., Colen R.R., Colman H., Flanders A.E., Giannini C., Grifford M., Iavarone A., Jain R., Joseph I., Kim J., Kasaian K., Mikkelsen T., Murray B.A., O'Neill B.P., Pachter L., Parsons D.W., Sougnez C., Sulman E.P., Vandenberg S.R., Van Meir E.G., Von Deimling A., Zhang H., Crain D., Lau K., Mallery D., Morris S., Paulauskis J., Penny R., Shelton T., Sherman M., Yena P., Black A., Bowen J., Dicostanzo K., Gastier-Foster J., Leraas K.M., Lichtenberg T.M., Pierson C.R., Ramirez N.C., Taylor C., Weaver S., Wise L., Zmuda E., Davidsen T., Demchok J.A., Eley G., Ferguson M.L., Hutter C.M., Shaw K.R.M., Ozenberger B.A., Sheth M., Sofia H.J., Tarnuzzer R., Wang Z., Yang L., Zenklusen J.C., Ayala B., Baboud J., Chudamani S., Jensen M.A., Liu J., Pihl T., Raman R., Wan Y., Wu Y., Ally A., Auman J.T., Balasundaram M., Balu S., Baylin S.B., Beroukhim R., Bootwalla M.S., Bowlby R., Bristow C.A., Brooks D., Butterfield Y., Carlsen R., Carter S., Chin L., Chu A., Chuah E., Cibulskis K., Clarke A., Coetzee S.G., Dhalla N., Fennell T., Fisher S., Gabriel S., Getz G., Gibbs R., Guin R., Hadjipanayis A., Hayes D.N., Hinoue T., Hoadley K., Holt R.A., Hoyle A.P., Jefferys S.R., Jones S., Jones C.D., Kucherlapati R., Lai P.H., Lander E., Lee S., Lichtenstein L., Ma Y., Maglinte D.T., Mahadeshwar H.S., Marra M.A., Mayo M., Meng S., Meyerson M.L., Mieczkowski P.A., Moore R.A., Mose L.E., Mungall A.J., Pantazi A., Parfenov M., Park P.J., Parker J.S., Perou C.M., Protopopov A., Ren X., Roach J., Sabedot T.S., Schein J., Schumacher S.E., Seidman J.G., Seth S., Shen H., Simons J.V., Sipahimalani P., Soloway M.G., Song X., Sun H., Tabak B., Tam A., Tan D., Tang J., Thiessen N., Triche T., Van Den Berg D.J., Veluvolu U., Waring S., Weisenberger D.J., Wilkerson M.D., Wong T., Wu J., Xi L., Xu A.W., Zack T.I., Zhang J., Aksoy B.A., Arachchi H., Benz C., Bernard B., Carlin D., Cho J., DiCara D., Frazer S., Fuller G.N., Gao J., Gehlenborg N., Haussler D., Heiman D.I., Iype L., Jacobsen A., Ju Z., Katzman S., Kim H., Knijnenburg T., Kreisberg R.B., Lawrence M.S., Lee W., Leinonen K., Lin P., Ling S., Liu W., Liu Y., Lu Y., Mills G., Ng S., Noble M.S., Paull E., Rao A., Reynolds S., Saksena G., Sanborn Z., Sander C., Schultz N., Senbabaoglu Y., Shen R., Shmulevich I., Sinha R., Stuart J., Sumer S.O., Sun Y., Tasman N., Taylor B.S., Voet D., Weinhold N., Weinstein J.N., Yang D., Yoshihara K., Zheng S., Zhang W., Zou L., Abel T., Sadeghi S., Cohen M.L., Eschbacher J., Hattab E.M., Raghunathan A., Schniederjan M.J., Aziz D., Barnett G., Barrett W., Bigner D.D., Boice L., Brewer C., Calatozzolo C., Campos B., Carlotti C.G., Chan T.A., Cuppini L., Curley E., Cuzzubbo S., Devine K., DiMeco F., Duell R., Elder J.B., Fehrenbach A., Finocchiaro G., Friedman W., Fulop J., Gardner J., Hermes B., Herold-Mende C., Jungk C., Kendler A., Lehman N.L., Lipp E., Liu O., Mandt R., McGraw M., Mclendon R., McPherson C., Neder L., Nguyen P., Noss A., Nunziata R., Ostrom Q.T., Palmer C., Perin A., Pollo B., Potapov A., Potapova O., Rathmell W.K., Rotin D., Scarpace L., Schilero C., Senecal K., Shimmel K., Shurkhay V., Sifri S., Singh R., Sloan A.E., Smolenski K., Staugaitis S.M., Steele R., Thorne L., Tirapelli D.P.C., Unterberg A., Vallurupalli M., Wang Y., Warnick R., Williams F., Wolinsky Y., Bell S., Rosenberg M., Stewart C., Huang F., Grimsby J.L., and Radenbaugh A.J.
Subjects: Adult, Male, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, IDH1, Adolescent, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, 1p/19q Codeletion, Biology, Article, Glioma, Molecular genetics, Grade II Glioma, medicine, Cluster Analysis, Humans, neoplasms, Exome, ATRX, Proportional Hazards Models, Aged, Cluster Analysi, DNA, Neoplasm, Sequence Analysis, DNA, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Genes, p53, medicine.disease, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1, Mutation, Proportional Hazards Model, Cancer research, GLIOMA, Female, Oligodendroglioma, Neoplasm Grading, Glioblastoma, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19, Human, Signal Transduction
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Diffuse low-grade and intermediate-grade gliomas (which together make up the lower-grade gliomas, World Health Organization grades II and III) have highly variable clinical behavior that is not adequately predicted on the basis of histologic class. Some are indolent; others quickly progress to glioblastoma. The uncertainty is compounded by interobserver variability in histologic diagnosis. Mutations in IDH, TP53, and ATRX and codeletion of chromosome arms 1p and 19q (1p/19q codeletion) have been implicated as clinically relevant markers of lower-grade gliomas. METHODS: We performed genomewide analyses of 293 lower-grade gliomas from adults, incorporating exome sequence, DNA copy number, DNA methylation, messenger RNA expression, microRNA expression, and targeted protein expression. These data were integrated and tested for correlation with clinical outcomes. RESULTS: Unsupervised clustering of mutations and data from RNA, DNA-copy-number, and DNA-methylation platforms uncovered concordant classification of three robust, nonoverlapping, prognostically significant subtypes of lower-grade glioma that were captured more accurately by IDH, 1p/19q, and TP53 status than by histologic class. Patients who had lower-grade gliomas with an IDH mutation and 1p/19q codeletion had the most favorable clinical outcomes. Their gliomas harbored mutations in CIC, FUBP1, NOTCH1, and the TERT promoter. Nearly all lower-grade gliomas with IDH mutations and no 1p/19q codeletion had mutations in TP53 (94%) and ATRX inactivation (86%). The large majority of lower-grade gliomas without an IDH mutation had genomic aberrations and clinical behavior strikingly similar to those found in primary glioblastoma. CONCLUSIONS: The integration of genomewide data from multiple platforms delineated three molecular classes of lower-grade gliomas that were more concordant with IDH, 1p/19q, and TP53 status than with histologic class. Lower-grade gliomas with an IDH mutation either had 1p/19q codeletion or carried a TP53 mutation. Most lower-grade gliomas without an IDH mutation were molecularly and clinically similar to glioblastoma. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health.)
Published: 2015
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22. Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

Author: Ni Zhao, Carter Van Waes, Lori Boice, Ashley H. Salazar, Petar Stojanov, Michael B. Prystowsky, Akinyemi I. Ojesina, Tara M. Lichtenberg, Nikolaus Schultz, Joshua M. Stuart, Mitchell J. Frederick, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Jeffrey N. Myers, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Margaret L. Gulley, Jean C. Zenklusen, Inanc Birol, Christina Yau, Mark E. Sherman, Saianand Balu, Angela Hadjipanayis, Barry S. Taylor, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Anthony Saleh, Carol G. Shores, Ezra E.W. Cohen, Joonil Jung, Ari B. Kahn, Lisa Wise, Peter S. Hammerman, Pei Lin, Marc Ladanyi, Mark C. Weissler, Scott L. Carter, Michele C. Hayward, Rehan Akbani, Todd Pihl, J. Jack Lee, Sophie C. Egea, Harshad S. Mahadeshwar, Leigh B. Thorne, Matthew G. Soloway, Troy Shelton, Andrea Haddad, William N. William, Wiktoria Maria Suchorska, Johanna Gardner, Marco A. Marra, Julie Ahn, Travis I. Zack, Lihua Zou, Bayardo Perez-Ordonez, David A. Wheeler, Daniel Crain, Adrian Ally, Deepak Srinivasan, Jay Bowen, Aaron D. Black, Jing Wang, Ludmila Danilova, Roy Tarnuzzer, Brenda Diergaarde, Tod D. Casasent, Dean Cheng, Giovanni Ciriello, Ken Burnett, Jeff Bruce, Wojciech Golusiński, Jonathan G. Seidman, Corbin D. Jones, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Lisa A. Peterson, Thomas M. Harris, Angeliki Pantazi, Nina Thiessen, Curtis R. Pickering, Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Yingchun Liu, William Lee, Andrzej Mackiewicz, Hailei Zhang, Ronglai Shen, B. Arman Aksoy, Lixing Yang, Jeffrey Roach, Simion I. Chiosea, John Waldron, David Van Den Berg, James Stephen Marron, Tanja Davidsen, Liming Yang, Maciej Wiznerowicz, Benjamin Gross, Paul M. Weinberger, Yufeng Liu, Reanne Bowlby, Zhixiang Zuo, Bartosz Szybiak, Roni J. Bollag, Samuel S. Freeman, Heather M. Walline, Gad Getz, Scott Morris, Michael S. Noble, Charles Saller, Sahil Seth, Richard A. Gibbs, Jonathan C. Irish, Hollie A. Harper, George E. Sandusky, S. Onur Sumer, Trevor Hackman, Gordon B. Mills, Carol R. Bradford, Payal Sipahimalani, Nipun Kakkar, Robert Penny, Jennifer Drummond, Adam M. Zanation, Rebecca Carlsen, Andrew J. Mungall, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, James G. Herman, Sylvia Wrenn, Andy Chu, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Patrick Kwok Shing Ng, Patrick K. Kimes, Tina Wong, Mark E. Prince, Han Si, Kristian Cibulskis, Katherine Tarvin, Peter W. Laird, Jiabin Tang, Raja R. Seethala, Michael Parfenov, Jan F. Prins, Erin Curley, Hui Cheng, Donna M. Muzny, Lynda Chin, D. Neil Hayes, Margi Sheth, Carmen Gomez-Fernandez, Jessica Walton, Paul C. Boutros, Ariane Nguyen, Kristen M. Leraas, Robert L. Ferris, Greg Eley, Christopher C. Benz, Jaegil Kim, Thomas E. Carey, Douglas B. Chepeha, Janae V. Simons, Jiexin Zhang, Laura S. Rozek, Maureen A. Sartor, Christopher A. Bristow, Justin A. Bishop, Adel K. El-Naggar, Nishant Agrawal, Yiling Lu, Carrie Sougnez, Evan G. Taylor, Raju Kucherlapati, Scott M. Lippman, Colleen Mitchell, Wendell G. Yarbrough, Chu Chen, Donghui Tan, Bhishamjit S. Chera, Michael Mayo, Wenbin Liu, Ranabir Guin, W. Kimryn Rathmell, Mayya Malakh, Jessica Frick, John N. Weinstein, Kevin Lau, Michelle Q. Pham, Gideon Dresdner, Luc G. T. Morris, David Mallery, Zhining Wang, Yichao Sun, Lynn M. Herbert, Christine M. Komarck, Lauren Averett Byers, Angela Tam, Thomas Bodenheimer, Doug Voet, Christie Kovar, Junyuan Wu, Walker Hale, Charles M. Perou, Angela B.Y. Hui, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Timothy J. Triche, Dong Zeng, Steven J.M. Jones, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Jinze Liu, Yan Guo, Hsu Chao, Tamara R. Jones, Katherine A. Hoadley, Stuart R. Jefferys, Thomas C. Motter, Matthew Meyerson, Konstanty Korski, Timothy A. Chan, Mark A. Jensen, Julien Baboud, Alexei Protopopov, David I. Heiman, Nils Gehlenborg, Heidi J. Sofia, Aaron D. Tward, Eric S. Lander, Yunhu Wan, Scot Waring, Peggy Yena, Robert I. Haddad, Daniel DiCara, Gordon Saksena, Juok Cho, Richard A. Moore, Darshan Singh, Peter J. Park, Matthew Ibbs, Robert A. Holt, Andrew D. Cherniack, Tanguy Y. Seiwert, Lee Lichtenstein, Anders Jacobsen, Rameen Beroukhim, Brandee T. Brown, Stephen C. Benz, Paweł Golusiński, Vonn Walter, Lixia Diao, Erik Zmuda, Scott Frazer, Michael S. Lawrence, Nils Weinhold, Jacqueline E. Schein, Xiaojia Ren, Denise Brooks, Elizabeth Buda, Jianjiong Gao, Jianhua Zhang, William W. Shockley, J. Todd Auman, Xingzhi Song, Jennifer R. Grandis, Jonathan B. McHugh, Stacey Gabriel, Martin L. Ferguson, Jeffrey S. Reid, Joseph Paulauskis, Umadevi Veluvolu, John A. Demchok, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Fei-Fei Liu, Alan P. Hoyle, Shaowu Meng, Mei Huang, Ann Marie Egloff, Christina Beard, Liu Xi, Ricardo Ramirez, Donna Morton, Lisle E. Mose, Leslie Cope, Marjorie Romkes, Zubair Khan, Noreen Dhalla, Candace Shelton, Boris Reva, Stephen B. Baylin, Miruna Balasundaram, Psalm Haseley, Andrew Wei Xu, Yan Shi, A. Gordon Robertson, Gregory T. Wolf, Darlene Lee, Steven E. Schumacher, Semin Lee, Rileen Sinha, Dennis T. Maglinte, Haiyan I. Li, William K. Funkhouser, Yi Han, Sam Ng, Joel S. Parker, Kai Wang, Zhong Chen, You Hong Fan, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Jeffrey S. Moyer, Robert A. Burton, David Pot, Chris Sander, Daryl Waggott, Joseph A. Califano, Netty Santoso, and Kyle Chang
Subjects: Male, DNA Copy Number Variations, Somatic cell, Biology, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, CDKN2A, Humans, HRAS, Molecular Targeted Therapy, RNA, Neoplasm, Gene, neoplasms, 030304 developmental biology, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, Oncogene, Genome, Human, Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck, Wnt signaling pathway, DNA, Neoplasm, Genomics, Oncogenes, Cell cycle, 3. Good health, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Head and Neck Neoplasms, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Mutation, Cancer research, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Female, FAT1, Signal Transduction, Transcription Factors
Abstract: The Cancer Genome Atlas profiled 279 head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) to provide a comprehensive landscape of somatic genomic alterations. Here we show that human-papillomavirus-associated tumours are dominated by helical domain mutations of the oncogene PIK3CA, novel alterations involving loss of TRAF3, and amplification of the cell cycle gene E2F1. Smoking-related HNSCCs demonstrate near universal loss-of-function TP53 mutations and CDKN2A inactivation with frequent copy number alterations including amplification of 3q26/28 and 11q13/22. A subgroup of oral cavity tumours with favourable clinical outcomes displayed infrequent copy number alterations in conjunction with activating mutations of HRAS or PIK3CA, coupled with inactivating mutations of CASP8, NOTCH1 and TP53. Other distinct subgroups contained loss-of-function alterations of the chromatin modifier NSD1, WNT pathway genes AJUBA and FAT1, and activation of oxidative stress factor NFE2L2, mainly in laryngeal tumours. Therapeutic candidate alterations were identified in most HNSCCs.
Published: 2015

23. Pan-SRC kinase inhibition blocks B-cell receptor oncogenic signaling in non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Author: Giovanni Ciriello, Amanda L. Christie, Maria C. Donaldson, Daniele Tavernari, Olivier Michielin, Vincent Zoete, Elie Dheilly, Margot Thome, Natalya Katanayeva, Luca Bonsignore, Elisa Oricchio, Elena Battistello, and Mark A. Murakami
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Immunology, B-cell receptor, Genes, myc, Gene Expression, Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell, Biochemistry, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, Mice, FYN, Piperidines, LYN, immune system diseases, hemic and lymphatic diseases, Cell Line, Tumor, Bruton's tyrosine kinase, Animals, Humans, Protein Kinase Inhibitors, Mice, Knockout, biology, Adenine, Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin, breakpoint cluster region, Cell Biology, Hematology, Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays, Disease Models, Animal, 030104 developmental biology, Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, Pyrimidines, src-Family Kinases, chemistry, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Ibrutinib, biology.protein, Cancer research, Pyrazoles, Tyrosine kinase, BLOOD Commentary, Proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase Src, Signal Transduction
Abstract: In diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), activation of the B-cell receptor (BCR) promotes multiple oncogenic signals, which are essential for tumor proliferation. Inhibition of the Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), a BCR downstream target, is therapeutically effective only in a subgroup of patients with DLBCL. Here, we used lymphoma cells isolated from patients with DLBCL to measure the effects of targeted therapies on BCR signaling and to anticipate response. In lymphomas resistant to BTK inhibition, we show that blocking BTK activity enhanced tumor dependencies from alternative oncogenic signals downstream of the BCR, converging on MYC upregulation. To completely ablate the activity of the BCR, we genetically and pharmacologically repressed the activity of the SRC kinases LYN, FYN, and BLK, which are responsible for the propagation of the BCR signal. Inhibition of these kinases strongly reduced tumor growth in xenografts and cell lines derived from patients with DLBCL independent of their molecular subtype, advancing the possibility to be relevant therapeutic targets in broad and diverse groups of DLBCL patients.
Published: 2017

24. The Oncogenic Action of NRF2 Depends on De-glycation by Fructosamine-3-Kinase

Author: Leila Akkari, Chunying Zhao, Viraj Sanghvi, Giovanni Ciriello, Ronald C. Hendrickson, Elisa de Stanchina, Zhuoning Li, Nathalie Lailler, Marco Mina, Hans-Guido Wendel, Matthew M. Miele, Marjan Berishaj, Josef Leibold, Prathibha Mohan, Scott W. Lowe, and Agnes Viale
Subjects: Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, Glycosylation, NF-E2-Related Factor 2, Mice, Nude, Mice, SCID, Biology, digestive system, environment and public health, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc, Mice, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Mice, Inbred NOD, Transduction, Genetic, Glycation, Heat shock protein, Maf Transcription Factors, Animals, Humans, Transcription factor, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Kelch-Like ECH-Associated Protein 1, Kinase, Liver Neoplasms, Translation (biology), Hep G2 Cells, respiratory system, KEAP1, Cell biology, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor), Glucose, HEK293 Cells, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Heterografts, Female, Fructosamine-3-kinase, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Summary The NRF2 transcription factor controls a cell stress program that is implicated in cancer and there is great interest in targeting NRF2 for therapy. We show that NRF2 activity depends on Fructosamine-3-kinase (FN3K)—a kinase that triggers protein de-glycation. In its absence, NRF2 is extensively glycated, unstable, and defective at binding to small MAF proteins and transcriptional activation. Moreover, the development of hepatocellular carcinoma triggered by MYC and Keap1 inactivation depends on FN3K in vivo. N-acetyl cysteine treatment partially rescues the effects of FN3K loss on NRF2 driven tumor phenotypes indicating a key role for NRF2-mediated redox balance. Mass spectrometry reveals that other proteins undergo FN3K-sensitive glycation, including translation factors, heat shock proteins, and histones. How glycation affects their functions remains to be defined. In summary, our study reveals a surprising role for the glycation of cellular proteins and implicates FN3K as targetable modulator of NRF2 activity in cancer.
Published: 2019
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25. SQSTM1 Is a Pathogenic Target of 5q Copy Number Gains in Kidney Cancer

Author: Chris Sander, Steven M. Bair, David E. Root, Giovanni Ciriello, Ella Liberzon, Su-Chun Cheng, Lianjie Li, Rameen Beroukhim, Pablo Tamayo, Chuan Shen, Glenn S. Cowley, Aviad Tsherniak, William G. Kaelin, Eijiro Nakamura, James J. Hsieh, Kiyohiro Ando, Sabina Signoretti, Patrick H. Lizotte, Anders Jacobsen, Barbara Tabak, Nikolaus Schultz, and A. Ari Hakimi
Subjects: Cancer Research, Tumor suppressor gene, NF-E2-Related Factor 2, Molecular Sequence Data, Gene Dosage, Biology, Gene dosage, Article, Mice, Downregulation and upregulation, Cell Line, Tumor, Sequestosome-1 Protein, medicine, Animals, Humans, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Base Sequence, Oncogene, Chromosome, Cell Biology, medicine.disease, Molecular biology, Kidney Neoplasms, Clear cell renal cell carcinoma, HIF1A, Oncology, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5, Kidney cancer
Abstract: SummaryClear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common form of kidney cancer and is often linked to loss of chromosome 3p, which harbors the VHL tumor suppressor gene, loss of chromosome 14q, which includes HIF1A, and gain of chromosome 5q. The relevant target(s) on chromosome 5q is not known. Here, we show that 5q amplification leads to overexpression of the SQSTM1 oncogene in ccRCC lines and tumors. Overexpression of SQSTM1 in ccRCC lines promoted resistance to redox stress and increased soft agar growth, while downregulation of SQSTM1 decreased resistance to redox stress, impaired cellular fitness, and decreased tumor formation. Therefore, the selection pressure to amplify 5q in ccRCC is driven, at least partly, by SQSTM1.
Published: 2013
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26. The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma

Author: Cameron W. Brennan, Roel G.W. Verhaak, Aaron McKenna, Benito Campos, Houtan Noushmehr, Sofie R. Salama, Siyuan Zheng, Debyani Chakravarty, J. Zachary Sanborn, Samuel H. Berman, Rameen Beroukhim, Brady Bernard, Chang-Jiun Wu, Giannicola Genovese, Ilya Shmulevich, Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Lihua Zou, Rahulsimham Vegesna, Sachet A. Shukla, Giovanni Ciriello, W.K. Yung, Wei Zhang, Carrie Sougnez, Tom Mikkelsen, Kenneth Aldape, Darell D. Bigner, Erwin G. Van Meir, Michael Prados, Andrew Sloan, Keith L. Black, Jennifer Eschbacher, Gaetano Finocchiaro, William Friedman, David W. Andrews, Abhijit Guha, Mary Iacocca, Brian P. O’Neill, Greg Foltz, Jerome Myers, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Robert Penny, Raju Kucherlapati, Charles M. Perou, D. Neil Hayes, Richard Gibbs, Marco Marra, Gordon B. Mills, Eric Lander, Paul Spellman, Richard Wilson, Chris Sander, John Weinstein, Matthew Meyerson, Stacey Gabriel, Peter W. Laird, David Haussler, Gad Getz, Lynda Chin, Christopher Benz, Wendi Barrett, Quinn Ostrom, Yingli Wolinsky, Bikash Bose, Paul T. Boulos, Madgy Boulos, Jenn Brown, Christine Czerinski, Matthew Eppley, Thelma Kempista, Teresa Kitko, Yakov Koyfman, Brenda Rabeno, Pawan Rastogi, Michael Sugarman, Patricia Swanson, Kennedy Yalamanchii, Ilana P. Otey, Yingchun Spring Liu, Yonghong Xiao, J.Todd Auman, Peng-Chieh Chen, Angela Hadjipanayis, Eunjung Lee, Semin Lee, Peter J. Park, Jonathan Seidman, Lixing Yang, Steven Kalkanis, Laila M. Poisson, Aditya Raghunathan, Lisa Scarpace, Ryan Bressler, Andrea Eakin, Lisa Iype, Richard B. Kreisberg, Kalle Leinonen, Sheila Reynolds, Hector Rovira, Vesteinn Thorsson, Matti J. Annala, Joseph Paulauskis, Erin Curley, Martha Hatfield, David Mallery, Scott Morris, Troy Shelton, Candace Shelton, Mark Sherman, Peggy Yena, Lucia Cuppini, Francesco DiMeco, Marica Eoli, Emanuela Maderna, Bianca Pollo, Marco Saini, Saianand Balu, Katherine A. Hoadley, Ling Li, C. Ryan Miller, Yan Shi, Michael D. Topal, Junyuan Wu, Gavin Dunn, Caterina Giannini, Brian P. O'Neill, B. Arman Aksoy, Yevgeniy Antipin, Laetitia Borsu, Ethan Cerami, Jianjiong Gao, Benjamin Gross, Anders Jacobsen, Marc Ladanyi, Alex Lash, Yupu Liang, Boris Reva, Nikolaus Schultz, Ronglai Shen, Nicholas D. Socci, Agnes Viale, Martin L. Ferguson, Qing-Rong Chen, John A. Demchok, Laura A.L. Dillon, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Margi Sheth, Roy Tarnuzzer, Zhining Wang, Liming Yang, Tanja Davidsen, Mark S. Guyer, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Heidi J. Sofia, Julie Bergsten, John Eckman, Jodi Harr, Christine Smith, Kelly Tucker, Cindy Winemiller, Leigh Anne Zach, Julia Y. Ljubimova, Greg Eley, Brenda Ayala, Mark A. Jensen, Ari Kahn, Todd D. Pihl, David A. Pot, Yunhu Wan, Nathan Hansen, Parvi Hothi, Biaoyang Lin, Nameeta Shah, Jae-geun Yoon, Ching Lau, Michael Berens, Kristin Ardlie, Scott L. Carter, Andrew D. Cherniack, Mike Noble, Juok Cho, Kristian Cibulskis, Daniel DiCara, Scott Frazer, Stacey B. Gabriel, Nils Gehlenborg, Jeff Gentry, David Heiman, Jaegil Kim, Rui Jing, Eric S. Lander, Michael Lawrence, Pei Lin, Will Mallard, Robert C. Onofrio, Gordon Saksena, Steve Schumacher, Petar Stojanov, Barbara Tabak, Doug Voet, Hailei Zhang, Nathan N. Dees, Li Ding, Lucinda L. Fulton, Robert S. Fulton, Krishna-Latha Kanchi, Elaine R. Mardis, Richard K. Wilson, Stephen B. Baylin, Larry Harshyne, Mark L. Cohen, Karen Devine, Andrew E. Sloan, Scott R. VandenBerg, Mitchel S. Berger, Daniel Carlin, Brian Craft, Kyle Ellrott, Mary Goldman, Theodore Goldstein, Mia Grifford, Singer Ma, Sam Ng, Joshua Stuart, Teresa Swatloski, Peter Waltman, Jing Zhu, Robin Foss, Barbara Frentzen, Raquel McTiernan, Anthony Yachnis, Yong Mao, Rehan Akbani, Oliver Bogler, Gregory N. Fuller, Wenbin Liu, Yuexin Liu, Yiling Lu, Gordon Mills, Alexei Protopopov, Xiaojia Ren, Youting Sun, W.K. Alfred Yung, Jianhua Zhang, Ken Chen, John N. Weinstein, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Phillip H. Lai, Timothy J. Triche, David J. Van Den Berg, David H. Gutmann, Norman L. Lehman, Erwin G. VanMeir, Daniel Brat, Jeffrey J. Olson, Gena M. Mastrogianakis, Narra S. Devi, Zhaobin Zhang, Darell Bigner, Eric Lipp, and Roger McLendon
Subjects: Male, Telomerase, Proteome, REGULAÇÃO GÊNICA, Somatic cell, Mesenchymal Glioblastoma, PDGFRA, Computational biology, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, medicine, Humans, Gene Regulatory Networks, Gene, Genetics, Glioblastoma cell, Mutation, Brain Neoplasms, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Gene Expression Profiling, Phenotype, Gene expression profiling, DNA methylation, Cancer research, Female, Glioblastoma, Signal Transduction
Abstract: SummaryWe describe the landscape of somatic genomic alterations based on multidimensional and comprehensive characterization of more than 500 glioblastoma tumors (GBMs). We identify several novel mutated genes as well as complex rearrangements of signature receptors, including EGFR and PDGFRA. TERT promoter mutations are shown to correlate with elevated mRNA expression, supporting a role in telomerase reactivation. Correlative analyses confirm that the survival advantage of the proneural subtype is conferred by the G-CIMP phenotype, and MGMT DNA methylation may be a predictive biomarker for treatment response only in classical subtype GBM. Integrative analysis of genomic and proteomic profiles challenges the notion of therapeutic inhibition of a pathway as an alternative to inhibition of the target itself. These data will facilitate the discovery of therapeutic and diagnostic target candidates, the validation of research and clinical observations and the generation of unanticipated hypotheses that can advance our molecular understanding of this lethal cancer.
Published: 2013
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27. The molecular diversity of Luminal A breast tumors

Author: Anders S. Jacobsen, Charles M. Perou, Rileen Sinha, Chris Sander, Katherine A. Hoadley, Nikolaus Schultz, Giovanni Ciriello, and Boris Reva
Subjects: Genome instability, Cancer Research, DNA Copy Number Variations, Class I Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, Breast cancer genomics, DNA Mutational Analysis, Gene Dosage, Gene Expression, MAP Kinase Kinase Kinase 1, AKT1, Breast Neoplasms, GATA3 Transcription Factor, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, MAP3K1, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Genomic Instability, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, 03 medical and health sciences, Preclinical Study, 0302 clinical medicine, Aurora kinase, Breast cancer, Luminal A breast cancer, medicine, Humans, Proportional Hazards Models, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast, GATA3, Luminal a, Prognosis, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Oncology, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Cancer research, Female, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
Abstract: Breast cancer is a collection of diseases with distinct molecular traits, prognosis, and therapeutic options. Luminal A breast cancer is the most heterogeneous, both molecularly and clinically. Using genomic data from over 1,000 Luminal A tumors from multiple studies, we analyzed the copy number and mutational landscape of this tumor subtype. This integrated analysis revealed four major subtypes defined by distinct copy-number and mutation profiles. We identified an atypical Luminal A subtype characterized by high genomic instability, TP53 mutations, and increased Aurora kinase signaling; these genomic alterations lead to a worse clinical prognosis. Aberrations of chromosomes 1, 8, and 16, together with PIK3CA, GATA3, AKT1, and MAP3K1 mutations drive the other subtypes. Finally, an unbiased pathway analysis revealed multiple rare, but mutually exclusive, alterations linked to loss of activity of co-repressor complexes N-Cor and SMRT. These rare alterations were the most prevalent in Luminal A tumors and may predict resistance to endocrine therapy. Our work provides for a further molecular stratification of Luminal A breast tumors, with potential direct clinical implications. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10549-013-2699-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Published: 2013
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28. COMPREHENSIVE MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF CLEAR CELL RENAL CELL CARCINOMA

Author: Kelinda Tucker, Raju Kucherlapati, Ng Sam, John N. Weinstein, Lori Boice, Satish K. Tickoo, Saianand Balu, John C. Cheville, B. Arman Aksoy, Chip Stewart, Preethi H. Gunaratne, Martin L. Ferguson, Bogdan Czerniak, Christie Kovar, Theodore C. Goldstein, Mark E. Sherman, Juan M. Mosquera, Chris Sander, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Leigh Anne Zach, Yiling Lu, Chandra Lebovitz, Gary Witkin, David Pot, Gordon Robertson, Richard A. Gibbs, James J. Hsieh, Benjamin P. Berman, Doug Voet, Kyle Chang, W. Marston Linehan, Margaret Morgan, Joan Pontius, Jodi Harr, Lihua Zhou, Joel S. Parker, David Van Den Berg, Michael B. Atkins, Sheila Reynolds, Petar Stojanov, Joel B. Nelson, Gordon B. Mills, Toni K. Choueiri, Weimin Xiao, Hye Jung E. Chun, Ronglai Shen, Rebecca Carlsen, Jennifer Brown, Tod D. Casasent, Sabina Signoretti, Jo Ellen Weaver, Phillip H. Lai, Dominique L. Berton, Patrick Plettner, Irina Ostrovnaya, Lisle E. Mose, Leslie Cope, Nils Gehlenborg, Heidi J. Sofia, Peter J. Park, Scott Morris, Hsin-Ta Wu, Fabio Vandin, Ranabir Guin, Daniel E. Carlin, Jacqueline E. Schein, Xi Liu, Nils Weinhold, Wandaliz Torres-Garcia, Cureline Olga Potapova, Daniel DiCara, Juok Cho, Steve Schumacher, Chris Wakefield, A. Rose Brannon, Susan M. Benton, Tom Bodenheimer, J. Todd Auman, Brenda Rabeno, Sharon M. Gorski, Eric E. Snyder, Divya Kalra, Brenda Ayala, Jiashan Zhang, Zhang Wei, Kyle Ellrott, Zhining Wang, Stacey Gabriel, Dominik Stoll, Daniel L. Rubin, W. Kimryn Rathmell, Eric Chuah, David Mallery, Tanja Davidsen, David Cogdell, Anders Jacobsen, John A. Demchok, Robert C. Onofrio, Anna Chu, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Zhiyong Ding, Erin Curley, Johanna Gardner, Robert Worrell, Hailei Zhang, Jennifer C. Fisher, Donna M. Muzny, Rajiv Dhir, Walker Hale, Ari B. Kahn, Sheila Fisher, Giovanni Ciriello, Ken Burnett, Marco A. Marra, Wiam Bshara, Anil V. Parwani, Joshua M. Stuart, Richard Varhol, Kristin G. Ardlie, Han Yi, Lisa R. Trevino, Roy Tarnuzzer, Michael S. Noble, Erin Pleasance, Jesse Walsh, Leigh B. Thorne, Andy Chu, Peter W. Laird, Andrew J. Mungall, Rashmi N. Sanbhadti, Mark Backus, David A. Wheeler, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Jodi K. Maranchie, William Mallard, Jared R. Slobodan, Christine Czerwinski, Jireh Santibanez, Andrew J. Stout, Donghui Tan, Laura S. Schmidt, Junyuan Wu, Jianjiong Gao, Daniel J. Weisenberger, D. Neil Hayes, Scott Frazer, Alan P. Hoyle, Konstantin V. Fedosenko, Rehan Akbani, Todd Pihl, Rahul Vegesna, Lynda Chin, Shelley Alonso, Jeffrey G. Reid, Donna Morton, Cathy D. Vocke, R. Houston Thompson, Christopher C. Benz, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Liming Yang, Carmelo Gaudioso, Nianxiang Zhang, Caleb F. Davis, Carrie Hirst, Shi Yan, Michael L. Blute, Barry S. Taylor, Mathew G. Soloway, Nina Thiessen, Paul T. Spellman, Deepak Srinivasan, Yongjun Zhao, Boris Reva, Wang Min, Stuart R. Jefferys, Benjamin J. Raphael, Nicholas J. Petrelli, Arash Shafiei, Lora Lewis, Eric Jonasch, David I. Heiman, Scot Waring, Richard A. Moore, Eric S. Lander, Evan O. Paull, Hoon Kim, Janae V. Simons, Stephen B. Baylin, Gad Getz, Stanley Girshik, Victor E. Reuter, Benjamin Gross, Ethan Cerami, Andrew D. Cherniack, Christine I. Smith, Christina Yau, Michael D. Topal, Peter Waltman, Jeff Boyd, Rameen Beroukhim, Angela Tam, Yingchun Liu, Peter A. Kigonya, Miruna Balasundaram, Maria J. Merino, David Haussler, Dinh Huyen, Elizabeth Buda, Michael S. Lawrence, Lin Pei, Charles M. Perou, Timothy J. Triche, Jessica Walton, Greg Eley, Tiffany Ting Liu, Joseph Paulauskis, Matthew Meyerson, Marc Ladanyi, Jaegil Kim, Katherine A. Hoadley, Huang Mei, Ilya Shmulevich, Robin J.N. Coope, Mary Iacocca, Natasja Wye, Adrian Ally, Mark A. Rubin, A. Ari Hakimi, Lori Huelsenbeck-Dill, Steven J.M. Jones, James Peterson, Mark A. Jensen, Barbara Tabak, Andrey Sivachenko, Julie Bergsten, John Eckman, Inanc Birol, Rohini Raman, Nipun Kakkar, Christina Liquori, Rileen Sinha, Dennis T. Maglinte, Lichtenstein Lee, Haiyan I. Li, William G. Kaelin, Anna K. Unruh, Noreen Dhalla, Candace Shelton, Roel G.W. Verhaak, Christopher J. Ricketts, Carrie Sougnez, Harsha Doddapaneni, Mark S. Guyer, Robert Penny, Michael F. Berger, Margi Sheth, Darlene Lee, Dimitra Tsavachidou, Chad J. Creighton, Prachi Kothiyal, Scott L. Carter, Michael Mayo, Zhu Jing, Kenneth Aldape, Corbin D. Jones, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Payal Sipahimalani, Martin Hirst, Sean P. Barletta, Kristian Cibulskis, Jerome Myers, Matthew C. Nicholls, Yidi J. Turman, Julien Baboud, Jeff Gentry, Carl Morrison, Gordon Saksena, Troy Shelton, Swapna Mahurkar, Robert A. Holt, Robert Sfeir, Shen Hui, Suzanne S. Fei, Christopher G. Wood, Candace Carter, S. Onur Sumer, Pheroze Tamboli, Yiming Zhu, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology, Getz, Gad Asher, Voet, Douglas, Lin, Pei, Chin, Lynda, and Lander, Eric Steven
Subjects: DNA Mutational Analysis, GRB10 Adaptor Protein, AMP-Activated Protein Kinases, Epigenesis, Genetic, PBRM1, Pentose Phosphate Pathway, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, RNA, Neoplasm, BAP1, Genome, Multidisciplinary, Genomics, Chromatin, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, DNA methylation, Signal transduction, Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Citric Acid Cycle, DNA Methylation, Gene Expression Profiling, Genome, Human, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Humans, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, MicroRNAs, Mutation, PTEN Phosphohydrolase, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, Signal Transduction, Survival Analysis, Human, Biology, Article, Genetic, SETD2, microRNA, medicine, Neoplastic, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, medicine.disease, Clear cell renal cell carcinoma, Gene Expression Regulation, Cancer research, RNA, Neoplasm, Epigenesis
Abstract: Genetic changes underlying clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) include alterations in genes controlling cellular oxygen sensing (for example, VHL) and the maintenance of chromatin states (for example, PBRM1). We surveyed more than 400 tumours using different genomic platforms and identified 19 significantly mutated genes. The PI(3)K/AKT pathway was recurrently mutated, suggesting this pathway as a potential therapeutic target. Widespread DNA hypomethylation was associated with mutation of the H3K36 methyltransferase SETD2, and integrative analysis suggested that mutations involving the SWI/SNF chromatin remodelling complex (PBRM1, ARID1A, SMARCA4) could have far-reaching effects on other pathways. Aggressive cancers demonstrated evidence of a metabolic shift, involving downregulation of genes involved in the TCA cycle, decreased AMPK and PTEN protein levels, upregulation of the pentose phosphate pathway and the glutamine transporter genes, increased acetyl-CoA carboxylase protein, and altered promoter methylation of miR-21 (also known as MIR21) and GRB10. Remodelling cellular metabolism thus constitutes a recurrent pattern in ccRCC that correlates with tumour stage and severity and offers new views on the opportunities for disease treatment.
Published: 2013

29. Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

Author: Ding Li, Esther Elishaev, Linda Dao, Juok Cho, Alexei Protopopov, Heather Schmidt, Tod D. Casasent, Bobbie S. Gostout, P.J. DiSaia, Jacqueline E. Schein, J. Todd Auman, Jay Bowen, S. Onur Sumer, Beth Y. Karlan, Gordon Saksena, Prachi Kothiyal, Robert E. Pyatt, Theodore C. Goldstein, Lisle E. Mose, Paul J. Goodfellow, Brenda Ayala, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Thomas Barr, Payal Sipahimalani, Gordon B. Mills, Rebecca Carlsen, Linda Van Le, Andy Chu, Peter W. Laird, Russell Broaddus, Helga B. Salvesen, Sam Ng, Cyriac Kandoth, Christopher Adams, Yiling Lu, Donghui Tan, Peter White, Lori Boice, Saianand Balu, Daniel DiCara, Robert A. Holt, Christopher C. Benz, Shi Yan, Joel S. Parker, Jessica Frick, Adrian Ally, Boris Winterhoff, Pamela M. Pollock, Patrick Plettner, Ethan Cerami, Angela Tam, Katherine A. Hoadley, Melissa Hart-Kothari, Robert C. Onofrio, John N. Weinstein, Sheila Reynolds, David Haussler, Kristian Cibulskis, Charles M. Perou, Timothy J. Triche, Rehan Akbani, Jeff Roach, Michael Mayo, Ranabir Guin, W. Kimryn Rathmell, Carmen Helsel, Junyuan Wu, Will Mallard, Nandita Barnabas, Todd Pihl, Ruibin Xi, Nianxiang Zhang, David Mallery, Douglas A. Levine, Aaron D. Black, David I. Heiman, Sugy Kodeeswaran, Lynda Chin, Guoyan Liu, Mark E. Borowsky, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Yuexin Liu, Hailei Zhang, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Anna K. Unruh, Andrew Berchuck, Michael Button, Noreen Dhalla, Bryan Hernandez, Rayna K. Matsuno, David G. Mutch, Chen Wang, Teresa R. Tabler, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Jeff Gentry, Stuart R. Jefferys, Thomas Grossman, Kelley Kneile, Fanny Dao, Scot Waring, Barbara Tabak, Eric E. Snyder, Eric S. Lander, Richard A. Moore, David J. Dooling, David Van Den Berg, Jiabin Tang, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Victoria Blanc, Wei Zhang, Inanc Birol, Harkness Kuck, Mathew G. Soloway, Johanna Gardner, Gary Witkin, Sahil Seth, Heidi J. Sofia, B. Arman Aksoy, Nikolaus Schultz, Marco A. Marra, Andrew D. Cherniack, D L Rotin, Anders Jacobsen, Erik Zmuda, Candace Carter, Christina Yau, Stephen C. Benz, Alexander A. Green, Michael D. Topal, Jean MacKenzie, Elena Nemirovich-Danchenko, Nicholas J. Petrelli, Dana Nicholson, Eve Shinbrot, Han Liang, Rameen Beroukhim, Charlenia Berry-Green, Kristin G. Ardlie, Joan Pontius, David Pot, Ari B. Kahn, Marc T. Goodman, Yevgeniy Antipin, Christopher Szeto, Jianhua Zhang, Ilya Shmulevich, Lori Huelsenbeck-Dill, Steven J.M. Jones, Carrie Sougnez, Kristen M. Leraas, Pei Lin, Robert A. Soslow, Erin Curley, Leigh B. Thorne, Hye Jung E. Chun, Michael S. Lawrence, Michelle O'Laughlin, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Lixing Yang, Mark A. Jensen, Rajiv Dhir, David A. Wheeler, C. Blake Gilks, Jianjiong Gao, Lisa Wise, Giovanni Ciriello, Joelle Kalicki-Veizer, Shaowu Meng, Mei Huang, Elaine R. Mardis, Faina Bogomolniy, Kai Ye, Jenny Lester, Lihua Zou, Hollie A. Harper, Robert Edwards, Ronglai Shen, Xiaojia Ren, Nils Weinhold, Harshad S. Mahadeshwar, Sandra Orsulic, Tom Bodenheimer, Zhenlin Ju, Chris Wakefield, Scott Frazer, John M. S. Bartlett, Gideon Dresdner, Hui Shen, Deepak Srinivasan, Aaron Hobensack, Cynthia McAllister, Marc Ladanyi, Tanja Davidsen, Lucinda Fulton, Michael D. McLellan, Richard K. Wilson, Zeng Dong, Olga Potapova, Sean C. Dowdy, Rui Jing, Kristin K. Zorn, Robert S. Fulton, Matti Annala, Chris Sander, Michael S. Noble, Benjamin Gross, Janae V. Simons, Phillip H. Lai, Laura Monovich, Andrew J. Mungall, Peter J. Park, Fedor Moiseenko, Liming Yang, Gad Getz, John Deardurff, Matthew Meyerson, Jeremy Parfitt, A. Gordon Robertson, Bradley M. Broom, Blaise A. Clarke, Greg Eley, Jennifer O. Fisher, Andrey Sivachenko, Narciso Olvera, Carrie Hirst, Adam M. Farkas, Karuna Garg, Wendy Winckler, Eric Chuah, Stacey Gabriel, Michael E. Carney, Stephen B. Baylin, Doug Voet, Miruna Balasundaram, Christine Czerwinski, Daphne W. Bell, Richard Varhol, Alexandra Meuter, Alan P. Hoyle, Darlene Lee, Elizabeth Buda, Li Ding, Xingzhi Song, Steven E. Schumacher, Anna L. Chu, Attila Teoman, Mary Iacocca, Semin Lee, Rileen Sinha, Itai Pashtan, Haiyan I. Li, Mikhail Abramov, Mark S. Guyer, Robert Penny, Margi Sheth, Scott L. Carter, Corbin D. Jones, Michael J. Birrer, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, D. Neil Hayes, Nathan Vanhoose, Brenda Rabeno, Raju Kucherlapati, Martin L. Ferguson, Joshua M. Stuart, Steve E. Kalloger, Mark G. Cadungog, Petar Stojanov, Tara M. Lichtenberg, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Angela Hadjipanayis, Barry S. Taylor, Boris Reva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology, Lander, Eric S., and Park, Peter J.
Subjects: DNA Copy Number Variations, endocrine system diseases, ARID1A, DNA Mutational Analysis, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Article, Uterine serous carcinoma, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Humans, PTEN, Exome, Poly-ADP-Ribose Binding Proteins, neoplasms, 030304 developmental biology, Chromosome Aberrations, Ovarian Neoplasms, 0303 health sciences, Endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia, Multidisciplinary, Genome, Human, Microsatellite instability, DNA Polymerase II, Genomics, medicine.disease, Molecular biology, female genital diseases and pregnancy complications, Endometrial Neoplasms, 3. Good health, DNA-Binding Proteins, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Serous fluid, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, DNA methylation, Cancer research, biology.protein, Female, KRAS, Signal Transduction, Transcription Factors
Abstract: We performed an integrated genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic characterization of 373 endometrial carcinomas using array- and sequencing-based technologies. Uterine serous tumours and ~25% of high-grade endometrioid tumours had extensive copy number alterations, few DNA methylation changes, low oestrogen receptor/progesterone receptor levels, and frequent TP53 mutations. Most endometrioid tumours had few copy number alterations or TP53 mutations, but frequent mutations in PTEN, CTNNB1, PIK3CA, ARID1A and KRAS and novel mutations in the SWI/SNF chromatin remodelling complex gene ARID5B. A subset of endometrioid tumours that we identified had a markedly increased transversion mutation frequency and newly identified hotspot mutations in POLE. Our results classified endometrial cancers into four categories: POLE ultramutated, microsatellite instability hypermutated, copy-number low, and copy-number high. Uterine serous carcinomas share genomic features with ovarian serous and basal-like breast carcinomas. We demonstrated that the genomic features of endometrial carcinomas permit a reclassification that may affect post-surgical adjuvant treatment for women with aggressive tumours., National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143799-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143835-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143840-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143843-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143845-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143848-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143858-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143866-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143867-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143882-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA143883-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5U24CA144025-04), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U54HG003067-11), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U54HG003079-10), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U54HG003273-10)
Published: 2013
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30. Conditional Selection of Genomic Alterations Dictates Cancer Evolution and Oncogenic Dependencies

Author: Elena Battistello, Franck Raynaud, Nikolaus Schultz, Titouan Laessle, Marco Mina, Francisco Sanchez-Vega, Daniele Tavernari, Sadegh Saghafinia, Giovanni Ciriello, Stephanie Sungalee, and Elisa Oricchio
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Genetics, Cancer Research, Models, Genetic, Carcinogenesis, Gene Expression Profiling, Cellular pathways, Computational biology, Genomics, Biology, Genome, 3. Good health, Evolution, Molecular, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, Oncology, Cancer evolution, Cancer genome, Neoplasms, Humans, Multiple tumors, Selection, Genetic, Algorithms
Abstract: Cancer evolves through the emergence and selection of molecular alterations. Cancer genome profiling has revealed that specific events are more or less likely to be co-selected, suggesting that the selection of one event depends on the others. However, the nature of these evolutionary dependencies and their impact remain unclear. Here, we designed SELECT, an algorithmic approach to systematically identify evolutionary dependencies from alteration patterns. By analyzing 6,456 genomes from multiple tumor types, we constructed a map of oncogenic dependencies associated with cellular pathways, transcriptional readouts, and therapeutic response. Finally, modeling of cancer evolution shows that alteration dependencies emerge only under conditional selection. These results provide a framework for the design of strategies to predict cancer progression and therapeutic response.
Published: 2017

31. Emerging landscape of oncogenic signatures across human cancers

Author: Bulent Arman Aksoy, Nikolaus Schultz, Yasin Senbabaoglu, Martin L. Miller, Chris Sander, Giovanni Ciriello, Miller, Martin [0000-0003-3161-8690], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Genome instability, DNA Copy Number Variations, Cancer therapy, Computational biology, Biology, Article, Epigenesis, Genetic, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Cancer genome, Neoplasms, Genetics, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Epigenetics, Genetic Association Studies, 030304 developmental biology, Epigenesis, 0303 health sciences, Extramural, Neoplasms therapy, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Oncogenes, Sequence Analysis, DNA, 3. Good health, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Mutation, Genome informatics
Abstract: Cancer therapy is challenged by the diversity of molecular implementations of oncogenic processes and by the resulting variation in therapeutic responses. Projects such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) provide molecular tumor maps in unprecedented detail. The interpretation of these maps remains a major challenge. Here we distilled thousands of genetic and epigenetic features altered in cancers to ∼500 selected functional events (SFEs). Using this simplified description, we derived a hierarchical classification of 3,299 TCGA tumors from 12 cancer types. The top classes are dominated by either mutations (M class) or copy number changes (C class). This distinction is clearest at the extremes of genomic instability, indicating the presence of different oncogenic processes. The full hierarchy shows functional event patterns characteristic of multiple cross-tissue groups of tumors, termed oncogenic signature classes. Targetable functional events in a tumor class are suggestive of class-specific combination therapy. These results may assist in the definition of clinical trials to match actionable oncogenic signatures with personalized therapies.
Published: 2013

32. Genetic and epigenetic inactivation of

Author: Elisa, Oricchio, Natalya, Katanayeva, Maria Christine, Donaldson, Stephanie, Sungalee, Joyce P, Pasion, Wendy, Béguelin, Elena, Battistello, Viraj R, Sanghvi, Man, Jiang, Yanwen, Jiang, Matt, Teater, Anita, Parmigiani, Andrei V, Budanov, Fong Chun, Chan, Sohrab P, Shah, Robert, Kridel, Ari M, Melnick, Giovanni, Ciriello, and Hans-Guido, Wendel
Subjects: Genome, Human, Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1, Article, Epigenesis, Genetic, Mice, Protein Biosynthesis, Mutation, Animals, Humans, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6, Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 Protein, Gene Silencing, Genetic Testing, RNA, Messenger, Chromosome Deletion, Lymphoma, Follicular, Heat-Shock Proteins
Abstract: Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an incurable form of B cell lymphoma. Genomic studies have cataloged common genetic lesions in FL such as translocation t(14;18), frequent losses of chromosome 6q, and mutations in epigenetic regulators such as EZH2. Using a focused genetic screen, we identified SESTRIN1 as a relevant target of the 6q deletion and demonstrate tumor suppression by SESTRIN1 in vivo. Moreover, SESTRIN1 is a direct target of the lymphoma-specific EZH2 gain-of-function mutation (EZH2Y641X). SESTRIN1 inactivation disrupts p53-mediated control of mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) and enables mRNA translation under genotoxic stress. SESTRIN1 loss represents an alternative to RRAGC mutations that maintain mTORC1 activity under nutrient starvation. The antitumor efficacy of pharmacological EZH2 inhibition depends on SESTRIN1, indicating that mTORC1 control is a critical function of EZH2 in lymphoma. Conversely, EZH2Y641X mutant lymphomas show increased sensitivity to RapaLink-1, a bifunctional mTOR inhibitor. Hence, SESTRIN1 contributes to the genetic and epigenetic control of mTORC1 in lymphoma and influences responses to targeted therapies.
Published: 2016

33. Pan-Cancer Landscape of Aberrant DNA Methylation across Human Tumors

Author: Marco Mina, Douglas Hanahan, Giovanni Ciriello, Sadegh Saghafinia, and Nicolo Riggi
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, DNA repair, hepatocellular-carcinoma, promoter methylation, wilms-tumor, Biology, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Chromatin remodeling, Epigenesis, Genetic, 03 medical and health sciences, Cell Line, Tumor, Neoplasms, nf-kappa-b, expression, Humans, Gene Silencing, Cancer epigenetics, gene, Child, lcsh:QH301-705.5, Gene, Epigenomics, Wnt signaling pathway, genomic characterization, DNA Methylation, DNA methylation instability, TCGA pan-cancer cohort, aberrant DNA methylation, cancer epigenetics, pediatric cancer, Pediatric cancer, signaling pathways, 3. Good health, comprehensive molecular characterization, 030104 developmental biology, lcsh:Biology (General), DNA methylation, Cancer research, metastatic melanoma
Abstract: Summary: The discovery of cancer-associated alterations has primarily focused on genetic variants. Nonetheless, altered epigenomes contribute to deregulate transcription and promote oncogenic pathways. Here, we designed an algorithmic approach (RESET) to identify aberrant DNA methylation and associated cis-transcriptional changes across >6,000 human tumors. Tumors exhibiting mutations of chromatin remodeling factors and Wnt signaling displayed DNA methylation instability, characterized by numerous hyper- and hypo-methylated loci. Most silenced and enhanced genes coalesced in specific pathways including apoptosis, DNA repair, and cell metabolism. Cancer-germline antigens (CG) were frequently epigenomically enhanced and their expression correlated with response to anti-PD-1, but not anti-CTLA4, in skin melanoma. Finally, we demonstrated the potential of our approach to explore DNA methylation changes in pediatric tumors, which frequently lack genetic drivers and exhibit epigenomic modifications. Our results provide a pan-cancer map of aberrant DNA methylation to inform functional and therapeutic studies. : Saghafinia et al. present an algorithmic approach to identify cancer-associated DNA methylation changes affecting gene expression. By analyzing >6,000 adult and pediatric tumors, the authors identify numerous DNA methylation changes at gene promoters that coalesce into a few pathways and that were associated with patient prognosis and response to therapy. Keywords: aberrant DNA methylation, cancer epigenetics, DNA methylation instability, TCGA pan-cancer cohort, pediatric cancer
Published: 2018
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34. Integrated genomic and molecular characterization of cervical cancer

Author: Robert Holt, José Sebastião Dos Santos, Andrew Mungall, Matthew Meyerson, Marco Marra, Giovanni Ciriello, Piotr Mieczkowski, John Weinstein, Cristovam Scapulatempo-Neto, Katherine Hoadley, Henrique Silveira, Gordon Mills, Matthew Anderson, Kin Chan, Sahil Seth, Stephen Benz, Zigui Chen, Matthew H. Bailey, Joshua Stuart, Juan Emmanuel Martinez Ledesma, Leng Han, Tiandao Li, Jay Bowen, Douglas Levine, Dmitry Gordenin, Charles Perou, Roy Tarnuzzer, Ken Chen, Jurandyr Andrade, MICHAEL MCLELLAN, Steven Jones, Daniel Tiezzi, SOPHIA WANG, Clement Adebamowo, and David Heiman
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Proteomics, ARID1A, Receptor, ErbB-3, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, medicine.disease_cause, Bioinformatics, B7-H1 Antigen, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, 0302 clinical medicine, ERBB3, Molecular Targeted Therapy, Cervical cancer, Mutation, Caspase 8, Human papillomavirus 16, Multidisciplinary, biology, Nuclear Proteins, Genomics, DNA-Binding Proteins, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Keratins, Female, RNA, Long Noncoding, KRAS, medicine.drug, Signal Transduction, APOBEC, APOBEC-1 Deaminase, Virus Integration, Adenocarcinoma, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Lapatinib, Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras), 03 medical and health sciences, medicine, PTEN, Humans, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases, HLA-A Antigens, PTEN Phosphohydrolase, Receptor, Transforming Growth Factor-beta Type II, medicine.disease, Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 2 Protein, 030104 developmental biology, NEOPLASIAS UTERINAS, biology.protein, Cancer research, Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta, Transcription Factors
Abstract: Cervical cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Here we report the extensive molecular characterization of 228 primary cervical cancers, one of the largest comprehensive genomic studies of cervical cancer to date. We observed notable APOBEC mutagenesis patterns and identified SHKBP1, ERBB3, CASP8, HLA-A and TGFBR2 as novel significantly mutated genes in cervical cancer. We also discovered amplifications in immune targets CD274 (also known as PD-L1) and PDCD1LG2 (also known as PD-L2), and the BCAR4 long non-coding RNA, which has been associated with response to lapatinib. Integration of human papilloma virus (HPV) was observed in all HPV18-related samples and 76% of HPV16-related samples, and was associated with structural aberrations and increased target-gene expression. We identified a unique set of endometrial-like cervical cancers, comprised predominantly of HPV-negative tumours with relatively high frequencies of KRAS, ARID1A and PTEN mutations. Integrative clustering of 178 samples identified keratin-low squamous, keratin-high squamous and adenocarcinoma-rich subgroups. These molecular analyses reveal new potential therapeutic targets for cervical cancers.
Published: 2015

35. The molecular taxonomy of primary prostate cancer

Author: Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Jianhua Zhang, Saianand Balu, Marc Ladanyi, Victor E. Reuter, Johanna Gardner, Junyuan Wu, Troy Shelton, Simone Chevalier, Marco A. Marra, Anuradha Gopalan, Roy Tarnuzzer, Pei Lin, Joel S. Parker, Umadevi Veluvolu, Lisle E. Mose, Rebecca Carlsen, Michel Carmel, Shalini S. Yadav, Joseph Paulauskis, Fadi Brimo, Sheila Reynolds, Scott Frazer, Natalya Dyakova, Christopher A. Bristow, Brian D. Robinson, Lucie Hamel, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Yao Fu, Syed Haider, Christopher J. Logothetis, Michael Parfenov, Jeff Boyd, Katherine Tarvin, Kjong-Van Lehmann, Stuart R. Jefferys, Alan P. Hoyle, Arshi Arora, A. Gordon Robertson, Matti Annala, Thomas L. Bauer, Jianhua Luo, Rodolfo Borges Dos Reis, Louis Lacombe, Andrew Salner, Matti Nykter, Alexandre Doueik, Mei Huang, Alireza Moinzadeh, Joshua Armenia, Andre Kahles, Rehan Akbani, Todd Pihl, Gordon Saksena, Robert A. Holt, Felipe Amstalden Trevisan, Mario Berrios, Nina Thiessen, Ronglai Shen, Carrie Sougnez, Xiaojia Ren, Matthew G. Soloway, Lixing Yang, W. Marston Linehan, Chip Stewart, Angeliki Pantazi, Alain Bergeron, Andrea Sboner, Angela Hadjipanayis, Xingzhi Song, Carlos Gilberto Carlotti, Manaswi Gupta, Rashi Naresh, Yiling Lu, Hartmut Juhl, Mark Gerstein, Robert Leung, Sahil Seth, Teri A. Longacre, Ignaty Leshchiner, Chris Sander, Andrew Wei Xu, Anne Marie Mes-Masson, Patrick Teebagy, Julian M. Hess, Matthew Meyerson, Adrian Ally, Jiabin Tang, Ye Wu, Janae V. Simons, David Van Den Berg, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Patricia Troncoso, Thomas Gribbin, Shannon J. McCall, Andrew K. Godwin, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Kimberly Rieger-Christ, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Peter J. Park, Margi Sheth, Mark E. Sherman, Eric S. Lander, Yunhu Wan, Lisa Iype, Robert Penny, J. Todd Auman, Ekta Khurana, Stephen J. Freedland, Jeffry Simko, Nils Weinhold, Bradley M. Broom, Angela Tam, Nikolaus Schultz, Erik Zmuda, Wei Zhang, Wenyi Wang, Jeffrey Roach, Christopher E. Barbieri, Alan H. Bryce, Qingguo Wang, Lawrence D. True, Christopher C. Benz, Mathieu Latour, Richard A. Moore, Michael Mayo, Yi Zhong, Tara M. Lichtenberg, Jacqueline E. Schein, Svitlana Tyekucheva, Ranabir Guin, Scott L. Carter, Michael Kerger, David Canes, Scott M. Lippman, Alexei Protopopov, Katayoon Kasaian, Peter A. Pinto, Peter S. Nelson, W. Kimryn Rathmell, David Mallery, Brett S. Carver, David I. Heiman, Juok Cho, Doug Voet, Thorsten Schlomm, Janet E. Cowan, Heidi J. Sofia, Peggy Yena, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Glenn Bubley, Tucker W. LeBien, Yan Shi, Lucas Lochovsky, Gordon B. Mills, Hailei Zhang, Andrea Holbrook, Christopher M. Hovens, Christina Yau, Jonathan G. Seidman, Samirkumar B. Amin, Corbin D. Jones, Andrew D. Cherniack, Lori Boice, Laxmi Lolla, Kristen M. Leraas, Denise Brooks, Francesca Demichelis, Maria Christina Tsourlakis, Katherine A. Hoadley, Charles Saller, Leigh B. Thorne, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Jaegil Kim, Rameen Beroukhim, Peter R. Carroll, John A. Demchok, Christopher J. Kane, Jay Bowen, Massimo Loda, Richard Cartun, Ina Felau, Carl Morrison, Kerstin David, Eliezer M. Van Allen, Laura S. Schmidt, D. Neil Hayes, Adrian Bivol, Michael S. Lawrence, Raju Kucherlapati, Kelsey Zhu, Wen-Bin Liu, Matthew R. Cooperberg, Houtan Noushmehr, Daniel Crain, Luciano Neder, Lynda Chin, Barry S. Taylor, Jiashan Zhang, Bradley A. Murray, Ginette McKercher, Miruna Balasundaram, Chia Chin Wu, Peter T. Scardino, Suhn K. Rhie, Mark A. Rubin, Jean C. Zenklusen, Ronald Simon, Jaeil Ahn, Markus Graefen, Phillip H. Lai, Michael Ittmann, June M. Chan, Maria J. Merino, Andy Chu, Liming Yang, Charles M. Perou, Steven J.M. Jones, Gad Getz, Stacey Gabriel, Martin L. Ferguson, Jianjiong Gao, Payal Sipahimalani, Lisa Wise, Serghei Stepa, Arvind Rao, Bettina F. Drake, Antonia H. Holway, Armaz Mariamidze, Kiley Graim, Juliann Shih, Guido Sauter, Sarah Minner, Amanda Clarke, Harshad S. Mahadeshwar, Andrew J. Mungall, Alain Piché, Cathy D. Vocke, Sudha Chudamani, Yulia Newton, Davide Prandi, Roeland Verhaak, Ilya Shmulevich, Matthew T. Chang, Sara Sadeghi, Michael Button, Joshua M. Stuart, Anne Breggia, Kristian Cibulskis, Giovanni Ciriello, Paul C. Boutros, Yu Chen, Zhining Wang, Jerome Myers, Heidi Dvinge, Ashutosh Tewari, Scott Morris, Andrea Sorcini, Tara Skelly, Niall M. Corcoran, Michael S. Noble, Anthony J. Costello, Timothy C. Thompson, Eric Chuah, Carolyn M. Hutter, Robert K. Bradley, Fred Saad, John A. Libertino, Reanne Bowlby, John A. Stewart, Shiyun Ling, Gunnar Rätsch, George E. Sandusky, Alexis Sharp, Eric J. Burks, Thomas Zeng, Erin Curley, Charlie Sun, Rajiv Dhir, Yussanne Ma, Huihui Ye, Hui Shen, Nils Gehlenborg, Imelda Tenggara, Travis Sullivan, Tom Bodenheimer, Jia Liu, Christopher D. Andry, Adam Abeshouse, Daniela P. Tirapelli, John N. Weinstein, Kevin Lau, Francisco Sanchez-Vega, Armen Aprikian, Peter W. Laird, Noreen Dhalla, Candace Shelton, Joel Nelson, Bernard Têtu, Darlene Lee, Eleonora Scarlata, Mark Nelson, Steven E. Schumacher, Robert J. Klein, Mark Gerken, Donghui Tan, Semin Lee, John S. Witte, Shaowu Meng, Huandong Sun, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Scott A. Tomlins, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology, Bradley, Robert K, Carmell, Michelle, Carter, Scott, Chin, Lynda, Cibulskis, Kristian, Getz, Gad Asher, Heiman, David, Lander, Eric Steven, Lin, Pei, Loda, Massimo, Meyerson, Matthew L, Park, Peter J, Seidman, Jonathan, Sougnez, Carrie L, Verhaak, Roel, and Voet, Douglas
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, DNA Repair, DNA repair, Urology, MEDLINE, Biology, SPOP, Bioinformatics, Molecular taxonomy, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, Epigenesis, Genetic, Fusion gene, 03 medical and health sciences, Prostate cancer, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, 0302 clinical medicine, Prostate, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Neoplasm Metastasis, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, Gynecology, 0303 health sciences, Primary (chemistry), business.industry, Prostatic Neoplasms, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Androgen receptor, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, GENÉTICA, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Receptors, Androgen, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, DNA methylation, Mutation, Cancer research, ras Proteins, Gene Fusion, business, Signal Transduction
Abstract: There is substantial heterogeneity among primary prostate cancers, evident in the spectrum of molecular abnormalities and its variable clinical course. As part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), we present a comprehensive molecular analysis of 333 primary prostate carcinomas. Our results revealed a molecular taxonomy in which 74% of these tumors fell into one of seven subtypes defined by specific gene fusions (ERG, ETV1/4, and FLI1) or mutations (SPOP, FOXA1, and IDH1). Epigenetic profiles showed substantial heterogeneity, including an IDH1 mutant subset with a methylator phenotype. Androgen receptor (AR) activity varied widely and in a subtype-specific manner, with SPOP and FOXA1 mutant tumors having the highest levels of AR-induced transcripts. 25% of the prostate cancers had a presumed actionable lesion in the PI3K or MAPK signaling pathways, and DNA repair genes were inactivated in 19%. Our analysis reveals molecular heterogeneity among primary prostate cancers, as well as potentially actionable molecular defects., National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143799), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143835), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143840), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143843), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143845), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143848), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143858), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143866), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143867), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143882), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA143883), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant 5U24CA144025), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant U54HG003067), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant U54HG003079), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant U54HG003273), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). (grant P30CA16672)
Published: 2015

36. Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma

Author: W. Kimryn Rathmell, Lauren E. Haydu, Nils Gehlenborg, David Mallery, Lynn M. Herbert, Hailei Zhang, Darlene Lee, Payal Sipahimalani, Richard A. Scolyer, Jonathan R. Stretch, Amanda Clarke, Sudha Chudamani, Dirk Schadendorf, Jeffrey Roach, Troy Shelton, Kerwin F. Shannon, Kadir C. Akdemir, Alexander J. Lazar, Lixing Yang, D. Murawa, Jingchun Zhu, Michael Mayo, Steven E. Schumacher, Marc Ladanyi, Yiling Lu, Levi A. Garraway, Andrew J. Spillane, Giandomenico Russo, Ian R. Watson, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Mei Huang, Chang Jiun Wu, Pedamallu Chandra Sekhar, Laura Brockway-Lunardi, Wiktoria Maria Suchorska, Michael A. Davies, John M. S. Bartlett, Benjamin Gross, Mark Gerken, Georgy Manikhas, William R. Jeck, Michael Dinikin, Sam Ng, Antje Sucker, Sharon K. Huang, Donghui Tan, Semin Lee, Da Yang, Yardena Samuels, Boris C. Bastian, Katherine A. Hoadley, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Shaowu Meng, Kunal Rai, Sheila Fisher, Tom Bodenheimer, Robyn P. M. Saw, Joel S. Parker, Victoria Fulidou, Scot Waring, Vesteinn Thorsson, Jacqueline E. Schein, Heidi J. Sofia, Jia Liu, Eric S. Lander, Martin L. Miller, Scott E. Woodman, Yunhu Wan, Olga Voronina, Brenda Ayala, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Rileen Sinha, Yonathan Lissanu Deribe, Yussanne Ma, Gabriel Sica, Matthew Ibbs, Pam Bartlett, Arkadiusz Spychała, Sheila Reynolds, Nikolaus Schultz, Jianhua Zhang, Stephen B. Baylin, Saianand Balu, Jay Bowen, Eran Hodis, Olga Potapova, Lori Boice, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Singer Ma, Victor G. Prieto, Steven J.M. Jones, Konstantin V. Fedosenko, Rehan Akbani, Todd Pihl, Ruibin Xi, Stergios J. Moschos, Lisa Iype, Robert Penny, Vonn Walter, Peter Hersey, Umadevi Veluvolu, Jiabin Tang, Mark A. Jensen, Aaron Chevalier, Nils Weinhold, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, S. Onur Sumer, Lisle E. Mose, Leslie Cope, Angela Tam, Carmelo Gaudioso, Giovanni Ciriello, Jaegil Kim, Noreen Dhalla, Candace Shelton, Andrzej Mackiewicz, Travis I. Zack, James G. Herman, Lisa Zimmer, Chia Chin Wu, Elena Pagani, Franklin W. Huang, Tanja Davidsen, Stuart R. Jefferys, Andy Chu, Harmanjatinder S. Sekhon, Richard A. Moore, Scott L. Carter, Ludmila Danilova, Peter W. Laird, Nicholas K. Hayward, Julien Baboud, A. Gordon Robertson, Scott Morris, Honorata Tatka, Gordon Saksena, Robert A. Holt, Angela Hadjipanayis, Jakub Brzezinski, Lihua Zou, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Witold Kycler, Yasin Senbabaoglu, Xingzhi Song, Barbara Tabak, Christopher C. Benz, Michael Dubina, Wei Zhang, Sophie Egea, Fedor Moiseenko, Marcus Bosenberg, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Michael J. Quinn, Harindra Arachchi, Andrew J. Mungall, Lynn Cherney, Suresh Ramalingam, Christopher A. Bristow, Hojabr Kakavand, Chris Sander, Peiling Tsou, Anil Korkut, Alan P. Hoyle, Arshi Arora, Kenneth K. Lee, Netty Santoso, Raymond J. Cho, Ricardo Ramirez, Melissa Saul, Haiyan I. Li, Jeremy Parfitt, Valerie Jakrot, Tiffany L. Calderone, Jessica Frick, John N. Weinstein, Brady Bernard, John M. Kirkwood, Dave S.B. Hoon, Carolyn J. Shiau, Carmen Gomez-Fernandez, Michael Krauthammer, Carrie Sougnez, George E. Sandusky, Xiaojia Ren, Charles Schwallier, Carolyn M. Hutter, Radoslaw Łaźniak, Dmitry Belyaev, Richard F. Kefford, Jeffrey M. Trent, Ouida Liu, J. Stephen Ebrom, Yoon La Choi, Maciej Wiznerowicz, Ranabir Guin, Yan Shi, Ewa Leporowska, Zhenlin Ju, Charles Saller, Hyojin Kang, Jean C. Zenklusen, Tony Gutschner, Peter White, Luigi Nezi, Oxana Paklina, Harshad S. Mahadeshwar, Wiam Bshara, Roeland Verhaak, Kenneth Y. Tsai, Ilya Shmulevich, Kristian Cibulskis, Jonathan G. Seidman, Corbin D. Jones, Ayush T. Raman, D. Neil Hayes, Nandita Barnabas, Uma Rao, Jennifer Eschbacher, Timothy R. Fennell, Jeffrey E. Lee, Matthew Meyerson, Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, Elizabeth Buda, Xiaobei Zhao, Jason Roszik, M. Teresiak, Daniel DiCara, Pei Lin, Eliezer M. Van Allen, Scott Frazer, Genevieve M. Boland, Zhining Wang, Susan Hoppough, Konstanty Korski, Michael S. Noble, B. Arman Aksoy, Reanne Bowlby, Adeboye Osunkoya, Taofeek K. Owonikoko, Madhusmita Behera, Shiyun Ling, Erin Curley, Rajiv Dhir, Andrew Wei Xu, David I. Heiman, Samirkumar B. Amin, Andrew D. Cherniack, Brenna Matejka, Rameen Beroukhim, Michael S. Lawrence, Kelsey Zhu, Wen-Bin Liu, Stacey Gabriel, Martin L. Ferguson, Samantha Sharpe, Giannicola Genovese, Jay Engel, Johanna Gardner, Junyuan Wu, Marco A. Marra, Roy Tarnuzzer, John F. Thompson, Denise Brooks, Lawrence N. Kwong, Woong-Yang Park, Daniel J. Weisenberger, J. Todd Auman, Kristen M. Leraas, Margi Sheth, Riccardo Bono, John A. Demchok, Stefania D'Atri, Candace D. Carter, Miruna Balasundaram, Natalie Bir, Matthew G. Soloway, Angeliki Pantazi, Sahil Seth, Qixia A. Deng, Junehawk Lee, Dana Nicholson, Ye Wu, Keith T. Flaherty, Peter J. Park, Amie Radenbaugh, Benjamin Hanf, Katherine Tarvin, James S. Wilmott, Giancarlo Antonini Cappellini, Pawel Murawa, Maria Synott, Jonna Grimsby, Stephen Coons, Joachim Klode, Michael Button, Alyssa Janning, Alexei Protopopov, Florian L. Muller, Donald L. Morton, Joshua M. Stuart, Ina Felau, Cindy Sander, Ruth Halaban, John P. Miller, David Haussler, Monique Albert, Charles M. Perou, Timothy J. Triche, Yichao Sun, Aaron D. Black, Adrian Ally, Sousan Mehrabi, David Van Den Berg, Graham J. Mann, Erik Zmuda, Carl Morrison, Daniel Crain, Douglas Voet, Janae V. Simons, Norman E. Sharpless, Fadlo R. Khuri, Phillip H. Lai, Liming Yang, Anders Jacobsen, Keith A. Delman, Teresa R. Tabler, Gad Getz, Tara M. Lichtenberg, William Lee, Georgina V. Long, Nina Thiessen, Ronglai Shen, Francesca Passarelli, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Gordon B. Mills, Jessica Walton, Greg Eley, Leigh B. Thorne, Merrick I. Ross, Jared Malke, Barry S. Taylor, Juok Cho, William R. Burns, Michael Parfenov, Thomas Gribbin, Yuling Wang, Raju Kucherlapati, Lynda Chin, Bradley A. Murray, Lee Lichtenstein, Jianjiong Gao, and Lisa Wise
Subjects: Skin Neoplasms, Mutant, Medizin, Biology, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Subclass, Article, Transcriptome, chemistry.chemical_compound, Databases, Genetic, medicine, Humans, Gene, Melanoma, Genetics, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Cancer, Binimetinib, medicine.disease, National Cancer Institute (U.S.), United States, 3. Good health, chemistry, Cutaneous melanoma, Mutation, Cancer research
Abstract: Summary We describe the landscape of genomic alterations in cutaneous melanomas through DNA, RNA, and protein-based analysis of 333 primary and/or metastatic melanomas from 331 patients. We establish a framework for genomic classification into one of four subtypes based on the pattern of the most prevalent significantly mutated genes: mutant BRAF , mutant RAS , mutant NF1 , and Triple-WT (wild-type). Integrative analysis reveals enrichment of KIT mutations and focal amplifications and complex structural rearrangements as a feature of the Triple-WT subtype. We found no significant outcome correlation with genomic classification, but samples assigned a transcriptomic subclass enriched for immune gene expression associated with lymphocyte infiltrate on pathology review and high LCK protein expression, a T cell marker, were associated with improved patient survival. This clinicopathological and multi-dimensional analysis suggests that the prognosis of melanoma patients with regional metastases is influenced by tumor stroma immunobiology, offering insights to further personalize therapeutic decision-making.
Published: 2015

37. Characterization of HPV and host genome interactions in primary head and neck cancers

Author: J. Jack Lee, Carter Van Waes, Michael B. Prystowsky, Akinyemi I. Ojesina, Joshua M. Stuart, Mitchell J. Frederick, Angela By Hui, Saianand Balu, Scot Waring, Inanc Birol, Bayardo Perez-Ordonez, Aaron D. Black, Payal Sipahimalani, Wiktoria Maria Suchorska, Michele C. Hayward, Jeffrey Roach, Adrian Ally, Ranabir Guin, Samuel S. Freeman, J. Todd Auman, Hollie A. Harper, Mark E. Prince, David Van Den Berg, Nipun Kakkar, James G. Herman, Adam M. Zanation, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Daniel DiCara, Carol R. Bradford, Paul C. Boutros, Peter W. Laird, Evan G. Taylor, Yan Shi, Jonathan M. Irish, Kristian Cibulskis, Junyuan Wu, Darlene Lee, Katherine A. Hoadley, Jeff Bruce, Yingchun Liu, Heather M. Walline, Carol G. Shores, Raju Kucherlapati, Scott M. Lippman, Colleen Mitchell, Steven E. Schumacher, Wendell G. Yarbrough, Tanguy Y. Seiwert, Sophie C. Egea, Elena Ivanova, Troy Shelton, Jiexin Zhang, Patrick K. Kimes, Nikolaus Schultz, Noreen Dhalla, Maciej Wiznerowicz, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Martin L. Ferguson, Tamara R. Jones, Haiyan I. Li, Nishant Agrawal, Yiling Lu, Lixing Yang, Brandee T. Brown, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Nils Weinhold, Harshad S. Mahadeshwar, Angela Tam, Lihua Zou, Tom Bodenheimer, Gordon B. Mills, W. Kimryn Rathmell, David Mallery, Semin Lee, Scott J. Morris, Lynn M. Herbert, Hailei Zhang, Thomas C. Motter, Walker Hale, Tina Wong, Yichao Sun, Heidi J. Sofia, Rileen Sinha, Dennis T. Maglinte, Robert I. Haddad, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Jinze Liu, Julien Baboud, Brenda Diergaarde, Michelle Q. Pham, Tanja M. Davidsen, Maureen A. Sartor, Robert A. Holt, Angela Hadjipanayis, Pei Lin, Anders Jacobsen, Stephen C. Benz, Dean Cheng, Matthew Meyerson, Andy Chu, Ezra E.W. Cohen, Joonil Jung, Ari B. Kahn, Scott Frazer, Leigh B. Thorne, Andrew J. Mungall, David A. Wheeler, Nina Thiessen, Jay Bowen, Hui Cheng, D. Neil Hayes, Jennifer Drummond, Patrick Kwok Shing Ng, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, S. Onur Sumer, Katherine Tarvin, John W.F. Waldron, Nils Gehlenborg, Douglas B. Chepeha, Janae V. Simons, Robert L. Ferris, Paweł Golusiński, Christina Beard, Donna Morton, Boris Reva, Psalm Haseley, Andrew Wei Xu, Giovanni Ciriello, Gregory T. Wolf, Ken Burnett, Lisa A. Peterson, Sylvia Wrenn, Mark A. Jensen, Travis I. Zack, Deepak Srinivasan, Thomas E. Carey, Lisle E. Mose, Mark E. Sherman, Leslie Cope, Adel K. El-Naggar, Marjorie Romkes, D Wheeler, Christopher A. Bristow, Andrea Haddad, Mayya Malakh, Ludmila Danilova, Jean C. Zenklusen, Jiabin Tang, Laura S. Rozek, Jon G. Seidman, Steven J.M. Jones, Hsu Chao, Candance Shelton, Carmen Gomez-Fernandez, Carrie Sougnez, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Lee Lichtenstein, Erik Zmuda, Johanna Gardner, Jianjiong Gao, Marco A. Marra, Juok Cho, Alexei Protopopov, Roy Tarnuzzer, Tod D. Casasent, Timothy M. Chan, Michael Parfenov, Jing Wang, Christine M. Komarck, Lauren Averett Byers, Rehan Akbani, Todd Pihl, Curtis R. Pickering, Aaron D. Tward, Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Han Si, Jan F. Prins, Vonn Walter, Simion I. Chiosea, Jacqueline E. Schein, James Stephen Marron, Ariane Nguyen, William W. Shockley, Jennifer R. Grandis, Zhining Wang, Jeffrey N. Myers, Konstanty Korski, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Margaret L. Gulley, Barry S. Taylor, B. Arman Aksoy, Ni Zhao, Ashley H. Salazar, Petar Stojanov, Tara M. Lichtenberg, Chu Chen, Donghui Tan, Bhishamjit S. Chera, Andrzej Mackiewicz, A. Gordon Robertson, Ronglai Shen, Lisa Wise, Charles M. Perou, Michael Mayo, Charles Saller, Timothy J. Triche, Dong Zeng, Yan Guo, Lixia Diao, Jonathan B. McHugh, Zhixiang Zuo, Gad Getz, John A. Demchok, Raja R. Seethala, Gordon Saksena, Liu Xi, Liming Yang, Justin A. Bishop, Jessica Walton, Greg Eley, Jessica Frick, John N. Weinstein, Kevin Lau, Jianhua Zhang, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Miruna Balasundaram, Zubair Khan, Umadevi Veluvolu, Stuart R. Jefferys, Christie Kovar, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Rebecca Carlsen, Daniel Crain, Fei-Fei Liu, Matthiew Ibbs, Michael S. Noble, William K. Funkhouser, Shaowu Meng, Mei Huang, Ann Marie Egloff, George E. Sandusky, Yi Han, Eric S. Lander, Sam Ng, William Lee, Christina Yau, Reanne Bowlby, Erin Curley, Donna M. Muzny, Lynda Chin, Joel S. Parker, Stephen B. Baylin, Peter S. Hammerman, Julie Ahn, Christopher C. Benz, Benjamin Gross, Paul M. Weinberger, Gideon Dresdner, Luc G. T. Morris, Zhong Chen, You Hong Fan, Angeliki Pantazi, David I. Heiman, Bartosz Szybiak, Sahil Seth, Richard A. Gibbs, Trevor Hackman, Peggy Yena, Richard A. Moore, Darshan Singh, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Andrew D. Cherniack, Jeffrey S. Moyer, Robert A. Burton, Peter J. Park, Rameen Beroukhim, Ricardo Ramirez, Natalia Issaeva, Michael S. Lawrence, Wen-Bin Liu, Xiaojia Ren, Chris Sander, Yunhu Wan, Daryl Waggott, Joseph A. Califano, David A. Pot, Mathew G. Soloway, Roni J. Bollag, Stacey Gabriel, Jeffrey S. Reid, Netty Santoso, Elizabeth Buda, Doug Voet, Xingzhi Song, Kyle Chang, Joseph Paulauskis, Thomas M. Harris, Jaegil Kim, Alan P. Hoyle, Marc Ladanyi, Anthony Saleh, Mark C. Weissler, Scott L. Carter, Kai Wang, Jonathan G. Seidman, Corbin D. Jones, Wojciech Golusiński, Robert Penny, Margi Sheth, and Lori Boice
Subjects: Cervical Cancer, Genome, head and neck, Cancer Genome Atlas Network, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, 2.2 Factors relating to the physical environment, Papillomaviridae, Aetiology, Genetics, Multidisciplinary, biology, HPV infection, virus diseases, Biological Sciences, integration sites, female genital diseases and pregnancy complications, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Infectious Diseases, Head and Neck Neoplasms, DNA methylation, Host-Pathogen Interactions, HIV/AIDS, Infection, Human, Virus Integration, Molecular Sequence Data, DNA sequencing, Rare Diseases, medicine, Humans, cancer, Dental/Oral and Craniofacial Disease, Gene, genome rearrangement, Neoplastic, Base Sequence, Genome, Human, Human Genome, DNA Methylation, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, Human genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, Genes, Neoplasm, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Human genome, Genes, Neoplasm, papilloma virus
Abstract: Previous studies have established that a subset of head and neck tumors contains human papillomavirus (HPV) sequences and that HPV-driven head and neck cancers display distinct biological and clinical features. HPV is known to drive cancer by the actions of the E6 and E7 oncoproteins, but the molecular architecture of HPV infection and its interaction with the host genome in head and neck cancers have not been comprehensively described. We profiled a cohort of 279 head and neck cancers with next generation RNA and DNA sequencing and show that 35 (12.5%) tumors displayed evidence of high-risk HPV types 16, 33, or 35. Twenty-five cases had integration of the viral genome into one or more locations in the human genome with statistical enrichment for genic regions. Integrations had a marked impact on the human genome and were associated with alterations in DNA copy number, mRNA transcript abundance and splicing, and both inter- and intrachromosomal rearrangements. Many of these events involved genes with documented roles in cancer. Cancers with integrated vs. nonintegrated HPV displayed different patterns of DNA methylation and both human and viral gene expressions. Together, these data provide insight into the mechanisms by which HPV interacts with the human genome beyond expression of viral oncoproteins and suggest that specific integration events are an integral component of viral oncogenesis.
Published: 2014

38. Multiplatform analysis of 12 cancer types reveals molecular classification within and across tissues of origin

Author: Hoadley, Katherine A., Yau, Christina, Wolf, Denise M., Cherniack, Andrew D., Tamborero, David, Sam, Ng, Leiserson, Max D. M., Niu, Beifang, Mclellan, Michael D., Uzunangelov, Vladislav, Zhang, Jiashan, Kandoth, Cyriac, Akbani, Rehan, Shen, Hui, Omberg, Larsson, Chu, Andy, Margolin, Adam A., Van'T Veer, Laura J., Lopez Bigas, Nuria, Laird, Peter W., Raphael, Benjamin J., Ding, Li, Robertson, A. Gordon, Byers, Lauren A., Mills, Gordon B., Weinstein, John N., Van Waes, Carter, Chen, Zhong, Collisson, Eric A., Benz, Christopher C, Perou, Charles M., Stuart, Joshua M., Rachel, Abbott, Scott, Abbott, Arman Aksoy, B., Kenneth, Aldape, Adrian, Ally, Samirku mar Amin, Dimitris, Anastassiou, Todd Auman, J., Baggerly, Keith A., Miruna, Balasundaram, Saianand, Balu, Baylin, Stephen B., Benz, Stephen C., Berman, Benjamin P., Brady, Bernard, Bhatt, Ami S., Inanc, Birol, Black, Aaron D., Tom, Bodenheimer, Bootwalla, Moiz S., Jay, Bowen, Ryan, Bressler, Bristow, Christopher A., Brooks, Angela N., Bradley, Broom, Elizabeth, Buda, Robert, Burton, Butterfield, Yaron S. N., Daniel, Carlin, Carter, Scott L., Casasent, Tod D., Kyle, Chang, Stephen, Chanock, Lynda, Chin, Dong Yeon Cho, Juok, Cho, Eric, Chuah, Chun, Hye Jung E., Kristian, Cibulskis, Giovanni, Ciriello, James Cle land, Melisssa, Cline, Brian, Craft, Creighton, Chad J., Ludmila, Danilova, Tanja, Davidsen, Caleb, Davis, Dees, Nathan D., Kim, Delehaunty, Demchok, John A., Noreen, Dhalla, Daniel, Dicara, Huyen, Dinh, Dobson, Jason R., Deepti, Dodda, Harshavardhan, Doddapaneni, Lawrence, Donehower, Dooling, David J., Gideon, Dresdner, Jennifer, Drummond, Andrea, Eakin, Mary, Edgerton, Eldred, Jim M., Greg, Eley, Kyle, Ellrott, Cheng, Fan, Suzanne, Fei, Ina, Felau, Scott, Frazer, Freeman, Samuel S., Jessica, Frick, Fronick, Catrina C., Ful ton, Lucinda L., Robert, Fulton, Gabriel, Stacey B., Jianjiong, Gao, Gastier Foster, Julie M., Nils, Gehlenborg, Myra, George, Gad, Getz, Richard, Gibbs, Mary, Goldman, Abel Gonzalez Perez, Benjamin, Gross, Ranabir, Guin, Preethi, Gunaratne, Angela, Hadjipanayis, Hamilton, Mark P., Hamilton, Stanley R., Leng, Han, Han, Yi, Harper, Hollie A., Psalm, Haseley, David, Haussler, Neil Hayes, D., Heiman, David I., Elena, Helman, Carmen, Helsel, Herbrich, Shelley M., Her man, James G., Toshinori, Hinoue, Carrie, Hirst, Martin, Hirst, Holt, Robert A., Hoyle, Alan P., Lisa, Iype, Anders, Jacobsen, Jeffreys, Stuart R., Jensen, Mark A., Jones, Corbin D., Jones, Steven J. M., Zhenlin, Ju, Joonil, Jung, Andre, Kahles, Ari, Kahn, Joelle Kalicki Veizer, Divya, Kalra, Krishna Latha Kanchi, Kane, David W., Hoon, Kim, Jaegil, Kim, Theo, Knijnenburg, Koboldt, Daniel C., Christie, Kovar, Roger, Kramer, Richard, Kreisberg, Raju, Kucherlapati, Marc, Ladanyi, Lander, Eric S., Larson, David E., Lawrence, Michael S., Darlene, Lee, Eunjung, Lee, Semin, Lee, William, Lee, Kjong Van Lehmann, Kalle, Leinonen, Ler aas, Kristen M., Seth, Lerner, Levine, Douglas A., Lora, Lewis, Ley, Timothy J., Haiyan I., Li, Jun, Li, Wei, Li, Han, Liang, Lichtenberg, Tara M., Jake, Lin, Ling, Lin, Pei, Lin, Wen bin Liu, Yingchun, Liu, Yuexin, Liu, Lorenzi, Philip L., Charles, Lu, Yiling, Lu, Luquette, Love lace J., Singer, Ma, Magrini, Vincent J., Mahadeshwar, Harshad S., Mardis, Elaine R., Adam, Margolin, Marra, Marco A., Michael, Mayo, Cynthia, Mcallister, Mcguire, Sean E., Mcmichael, Joshua F., James, Melott, Shaowu, Meng, Matthew, Meyerson, Mieczkowski, Piotr A., Miller, Christopher A., Miller, Martin L., Michael, Miller, Moore, Richard A., Margaret, Morgan, Donna, Morton, Mose, Lisle E., Mungall, Andrew J., Donna, Muzny, Lam, Nguyen, Noble, Michael S., Houtan, Noushmehr, Michelle, O’Laughlin, Ojesina, Akinyemi I., Tai Hsien Ou Yang, Brad, Ozenberger, Angeliki, Pantazi, Michael, Parfenov, Park, Peter J., Parker, Joel S., Evan, Paull, Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Todd, Pihl, Craig, Pohl, David, Pot, Alexei, Protopopov, Teresa, Przytycka, Amie Raden baugh, Ramirez, Nilsa C., Ricardo, Ramirez, Gunnar Ra, ̈ tsch, Jeffrey, Reid, Xiao jia Ren, Boris, Reva, Reynolds, Sheila M., Rhie, Suhn K., Jeffrey, Roach, Hector, Rovira, Michael, Ryan, Gordon, Saksena, Sofie, Salama, Chris, Sander, Netty, Santoso, Schein, Jacqueline E., Heather, Schmidt, Nikolaus, Schultz, Schumacher, Steven E., Jonathan, Seidman, Yasin, Senbabaoglu, Sahil, Seth, Saman tha Sharpe, Ronglai, Shen, Margi, Sheth, Yan, Shi, Ilya, Shmulevich, Silva, Grace O., Simons, Janae V., Rileen, Sinha, Payal, Sipahimalani, Smith, Scott M., Sofia, Heidi J., Artem, Sokolov, Soloway, Mathew G., Xingzhi, Song, Carrie Soug nez, Paul, Spellman, Louis, Staudt, Chip, Stewart, Petar, Stojanov, Xiaoping, Su, Onur Sumer, S., Yichao, Sun, Teresa, Swatloski, Barbara, Tabak, Angela, Tam, Donghui, Tan, Jiabin, Tang, Roy, Tarnuzzer, Taylor, Barry S., Nina, Thiessen, Ves teinn Thorsson, Timothy Triche, J. r., Van Den Berg, David J., Vandin, Fabio, Varhol, Richard J., Vaske, Charles J., Umadevi, Veluvolu, Roeland, Verhaak, Doug, Voet, Jason, Walker, Wallis, John W., Peter, Waltman, Yunhu, Wan, Min, Wang, Wenyi, Wang, Zhining, Wang, Scot, Waring, Nils, Weinhold, Weisenberger, Daniel J., Wendl, Michael C., David, Wheeler, Wilkerson, Matthew D., Wilson, Richard K., Lisa, Wise, Andrew, Wong, Chang Jiun Wu, Chia Chin Wu, Hsin Ta Wu, Junyuan, Wu, Todd, Wylie, Liu, Xi, Ruibin, Xi, Zheng, Xia, Andrew W., Xu, Yang, Da, Liming, Yang, Lixing, Yang, Yang, Yang, Jun, Yao, Rong, Yao, Kai, Ye, Ko suke Yoshihara, Yuan, Yuan, Yung, Alfred K., Travis, Zack, Dong, Zeng, Jean Claude Zenklusen, Hailei, Zhang, Jianhua, Zhang, Nianxiang, Zhang, Qunyuan, Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Wei, Zhao, Siyuan, Zheng, Jing, Zhu, Erik, Zmuda, and Lihua, Zou
Subjects: Genetics and Molecular Biology (all), Cluster Analysis, Humans, Neoplasms, Transcriptome, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all), Extramural, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Cancer, Computational biology, Disease, Biology, medicine.disease, Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, 3. Good health, Molecular classification, TP63, CLUSTERS (ANÁLISE), medicine, Head and neck, Gene
Abstract: Summary Recent genomic analyses of pathologically defined tumor types identify "within-a-tissue" disease subtypes. However, the extent to which genomic signatures are shared across tissues is still unclear. We performed an integrative analysis using five genome-wide platforms and one proteomic platform on 3,527 specimens from 12 cancer types, revealing a unified classification into 11 major subtypes. Five subtypes were nearly identical to their tissue-of-origin counterparts, but several distinct cancer types were found to converge into common subtypes. Lung squamous, head and neck, and a subset of bladder cancers coalesced into one subtype typified by TP53 alterations, TP63 amplifications, and high expression of immune and proliferation pathway genes. Of note, bladder cancers split into three pan-cancer subtypes. The multiplatform classification, while correlated with tissue-of-origin, provides independent information for predicting clinical outcomes. All data sets are available for data-mining from a unified resource to support further biological discoveries and insights into novel therapeutic strategies.
Published: 2014
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39. Impact of Recurrent Copy Number Alterations and Cancer Gene Mutations on the Predictive Accuracy of Prognostic Models in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Author: James J. Hsieh, Giovanni Ciriello, A. Ari Hakimi, Nina Mikkilineni, Victor E. Reuter, Paul Russo, Irina Ostrovnaya, Philip H. Kim, Robert J. Motzer, Mithat Gonen, Roy Mano, and John P. Sfakianos
Subjects: Oncology, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Urology, medicine.medical_treatment, Gene mutation, Bioinformatics, Article, Internal medicine, medicine, Carcinoma, Humans, Survival rate, Pathological, Exome, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Kidney, Models, Genetic, business.industry, Reproducibility of Results, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Prognosis, Nephrectomy, Kidney Neoplasms, Survival Rate, Clear cell renal cell carcinoma, medicine.anatomical_structure, Mutation, Female, business, Genes, Neoplasm
Abstract: Several recently reported recurrent genomic alterations in clear cell renal cell carcinoma are linked to pathological and clinical outcomes. We determined whether any recurrent cancer gene mutations or copy number alterations identified in the TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) clear cell renal cell carcinoma data set could add to the predictive accuracy of current prognostic models.In 413 patients who underwent nephrectomy/partial nephrectomy we investigated whole exome, copy number array analyses and clinical variables. We identified 65 recurrent genomic alterations based on prevalence and combined them into 35 alterations, including 12 cancer gene mutations. Genomic markers were modeled using the elastic net algorithm with preoperative variables (tumor size plus patient age) and in the postoperative setting using the externally validated Mayo Clinic SSIGN (stage, size, grade and necrosis) prognostic scoring system. These models were subjected to internal validation using bootstrap.Median followup in survivors was 45 months. Several markers correlated with adverse cancer specific survival and time to recurrence on univariate analysis. However, most of them lost significance when controlling for tumor size with or without age in the preoperative models or for SSIGN score in the postoperative setting. Adding multiple genomic markers selected by the elastic net algorithm failed to substantially add to the predictive accuracy of any preoperative or postoperative model for cancer specific survival or time to recurrence.While recurrent copy number alterations and cancer gene mutations are biologically significant, they do not appear to improve the predictive accuracy of existing models of clinical cancer specific survival or time to recurrence for clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
Published: 2014

40. An Epidemiologic and Genomic Investigation Into the Obesity Paradox in Renal Cell Carcinoma

Author: Nikolaus Schultz, Peter W. Laird, Helena Furberg, Martin H. Voss, A. Ari Hakimi, Hui Shen, Robert J. Motzer, Victor E. Reuter, James J. Hsieh, Nina Mikklineni, Paul Russo, Emily C. Zabor, Philip H. Kim, Anders Jacobsen, Giovanni Ciriello, Chris Sander, and Brandon Fiegoli
Subjects: Adult, Male, Oncology, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, DNA Copy Number Variations, medicine.medical_treatment, Overweight, Medical Records, Article, Body Mass Index, Breast cancer, Muscular Diseases, Risk Factors, Renal cell carcinoma, Internal medicine, Diabetes mellitus, Odds Ratio, medicine, Humans, Obesity, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, Dialysis, Aged, Neoplasm Staging, Retrospective Studies, business.industry, Muscles, DNA Methylation, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Survival Analysis, Kidney Neoplasms, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Logistic Models, Endocrinology, Mutation, Female, New York City, Neoplasm Grading, medicine.symptom, business, Kidney cancer, Obesity paradox, Follow-Up Studies, Kidney disease
Abstract: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) comprises 85% of kidney cancer and its incidence is increasing, potentially because of more widespread use of diagnostic imagining, with a trend toward smaller tumors being diagnosed (1). Mortality from RCC, however, has not decreased in parallel, suggesting that perhaps not all small tumors are indolent. More than 40% of RCC is attributable to obesity as measured by body mass index (BMI). Recent meta-analyses from prospective observational studies estimate that RCC risk increases by 24% for men and 34% for women for every 5kg/m2 rise in BMI (2). Putative mechanisms through which larger body size increases risk of kidney cancer include chronic tissue hypoxia, altered hormonal milieu, and increased inflammatory response (3). Because these processes can both induce and promote carcinogenesis (4,5), one might expect higher BMI to be an adverse prognostic factor for kidney cancer. Remarkably, a recent systematic review and meta-analysis found overweight and obese kidney cancer patients experienced statistically significantly longer survival than normal-weight patients (6). This phenomenon, known as the “obesity paradox,” has been described among patients on dialysis (7) and with other hemodynamic and metabolic disorders such as heart failure (8), hypertension (9), coronary heart disease (10), diabetes (11), and chronic kidney disease (12), but not among other obesity-related cancers including prostate, colorectal, and postmenopausal breast cancer (13). The impact of obesity on RCC survival has not been adequately examined, and mechanisms underlying the associations have not been explored. It is not clear whether the obesity paradox is spurious and influenced by detection bias or whether tumors developing in heavier patients are less aggressive and therefore confer a survival advantage. Given that one in three American adults is obese (14) and the incidence of kidney cancer is increasing (1), a better understanding of the obesity paradox is critical to inform secondary prevention efforts and maximize weight management strategies for kidney cancer patients. The purpose of this analysis was to examine the influence of presurgical BMI on stage at presentation and cancer-specific mortality (CSM), while considering the impact of detection bias, nutritional status, and molecular tumor features.
Published: 2013

41. Collection, integration and analysis of cancer genomic profiles: from data to insight

Author: Chris Sander, Giovanni Ciriello, Nikolaus Schultz, and Jianjiong Gao
Subjects: Genetics, Mutation, DNA Copy Number Variations, Genome, Human, Cancer, Genomics, Computational biology, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, medicine.disease, Genome, Article, Recurrence, Neoplasms, medicine, Humans, Identification (biology), Human genome, Analysis tools, Carcinogenesis, Developmental Biology
Abstract: The recent deluge of cancer genomics data provides a tremendous opportunity for the discovery of detailed mechanisms of tumorigenesis and the development of therapeutics. However, identifying the functionally relevant genomic alterations (‘drivers’) among the many non-oncogenic events (‘passengers’) presents a major challenge. Several new methods have been developed over the past few years that identify recurrently altered genes. Mapping the recurrent genomic alterations, such as somatic mutations and focal DNA copy-number alterations, onto individual tumor samples as tumor-specific event calls facilitates the identification of altered processes and pathways. The resulting reduction in complexity makes cancer genomics data more easily interpretable by cancer researchers and is now driving the development of powerful yet intuitive web-based analysis tools.
Published: 2013

42. Generation of tumor-targeted human T lymphocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells for cancer therapy

Author: Giovanni Ciriello, Victor D. Fedorov, Michel Sadelain, Fabiana Perna, Christopher C. Kloss, Mithat Gonen, Maria Themeli, and VU University medical center
Subjects: Male, T-Lymphocytes, Antigens, CD19, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biology, Protein Engineering, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Article, Mice, Cancer stem cell, Neoplasms, Animals, Cluster Analysis, Humans, Cytotoxic T cell, IL-2 receptor, Induced pluripotent stem cell, Antigen-presenting cell, Cell Proliferation, Induced stem cells, Cell Differentiation, Natural killer T cell, Chromium Radioisotopes, Receptors, Antigen, Phenotype, Immunology, Cancer research, Molecular Medicine, Stem cell, Biotechnology
Abstract: Progress in adoptive T-cell therapy for cancer and infectious diseases1–2 is hampered by the lack of readily available, antigen-specific, human T lymphocytes. Pluripotent stem cells could provide an unlimited source of T lymphocytes, but the therapeutic potential of human pluripotent stem cell–derived lymphoid cells generated to date remains uncertain3–6. Here we combine induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)7 and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)8 technologies to generate human T cells targeted to CD19, an antigen expressed by malignant B cells, in tissue culture. These iPSC-derived, CAR-expressing T cells display a phenotype resembling that of innate γδ T cells. Similar to CAR-transduced, peripheral blood γδ T cells, the iPSC–derived T cells potently inhibit tumor growth in a xenograft model. This approach of generating therapeutic human T cells ‘in the dish’ may be useful for cancer immunotherapy and other medical applications.
Published: 2013
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43. The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

Author: Qunyuan Zhang, B. Arman Aksoy, Fabio Vandin, Eric A. Collisson, Larsson Omberg, S. Onur Sumer, John A. Demchok, Sven Nelander, Vladislav Uzunangelov, Michael C. Wendl, Roger Kramer, John W. Wallis, Brian Craft, Angeliki Pantazi, Leng Han, W. K. Alfred Yung, Brad Ozenberger, Philip L. Lorenzi, James G. Herman, Andy Chu, Sahil Seth, Richard A. Gibbs, Angela Hadjipanayis, Hector Rovira, Peter W. Laird, Inanc Birol, Richard K. Wilson, James Cleland, Peter J. Park, Jiashan Zhang, Payal Sipahimalani, Stanley R. Hamilton, Liming Yang, Seth Lerner, Amie Radenbaugh, Barry S. Taylor, Carrie Hirst, David Tamborero, Stephen B. Baylin, Gad Getz, Tanja Davidsen, Miruna Balasundaram, Cheng Fan, Yuan Yuan, Kristian Cibulskis, Yan Shi, Angela Tam, Divya Kalra, Chris Sander, Scott Abbott, Catrina Fronick, Margi Sheth, Chip Stewart, Angela N. Brooks, Noreen Dhalla, Lam Nguyen, Hui Shen, Travis I. Zack, Andrew J. Mungall, Artem Sokolov, Douglas A. Levine, Carrie Sougnez, Paul T. Spellman, Greg Eley, Deepti Dodda, Wenbin Liu, Michael B. Ryan, Liu Xi, Aaron D. Black, Rong Yao, Saianand Balu, Benjamin P. Berman, Raju Kucherlapati, James M. Melott, Xingzhi Song, Boris Reva, Huyen Dinh, David A. Pot, Michael D. McLellan, Kjong-Van Lehmann, Wenyi Wang, Petar Stojanov, Bradley McIntosh Broom, Timothy J. Ley, Da Yang, Mary Elizabeth Edgerton, Houtan Noushmehr, Mathew G. Soloway, Nina Thiessen, Zhenlin Ju, Mark D.M. Leiserson, Michael Parfenov, Laura van 't Veer, Scott L. Carter, Ludmila Danilova, Adrian Ally, Hailei Zhang, Ina Felau, Carmen Helsel, Kenneth Aldape, Teresia Kling, Charles Lu, Psalm Haseley, A. Gordon Robertson, Andrew Wei Xu, Jessica Frick, Benjamin Gross, Louis M. Staudt, Craig Pohl, Dimitris Anastassiou, Netty Santoso, Donna Muzny, Chad J. Creighton, Donghui Tan, Ryan Bressler, Andrew J. Wong, Barbara Tabak, Yasin Senbabaoglu, Daniel C. Koboldt, Darlene Lee, Doug Voet, Joonil Jung, Hollie A. Harper, Jianhua Zhang, Kyle Chang, Wei Zhao, Marc Ladanyi, Lisa Iype, Ricardo Ramirez, Ami S. Bhatt, Lisle E. Mose, Singer Ma, Abel Gonzalez-Perez, Jonathan G. Seidman, Kosuke Yoshihara, Denise M. Wolf, Corbin D. Jones, Patrik Johansson, Siyuan Zheng, André Kahles, Stacey Gabriel, John N. Weinstein, Han Liang, Samantha Sharpe, Steven E. Schumacher, Matthew Meyerson, D. Neil Hayes, David Haussler, Krishna L. Kanchi, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Umadevi Veluvolu, Ari B. Kahn, Brady Bernard, Tod D. Casasent, Christopher A. Bristow, Akinyemi I. Ojesina, Sam Ng, Charles M. Perou, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Cyriac Kandoth, Lixing Yang, Joel S. Parker, Alan P. Hoyle, Timothy J. Triche, Dong Zeng, Sean E. McGuire, Christie Kovar, Kim D. Delehaunty, Juok Cho, Alexei Protopopov, Shaowu Meng, Ling Lin, Heather Schmidt, Nils Gehlenborg, Yuexin Liu, Elaine R. Mardis, Martin L. Miller, Jake Lin, Jason Walker, Lisa Wise, Suzanne S. Fei, Jacqueline E. Schein, Semin Lee, Christina Yau, Melisssa Cline, Tara M. Lichtenberg, David I. Heiman, Scot Waring, Richard A. Moore, Margaret B. Morgan, Robert S. Fulton, David E. Larson, Xiaoping Su, Kalle Leinonen, Samirkumar B. Amin, Joshua M. Stuart, J. Todd Auman, Rebecka Jörnsten, Rileen Sinha, Andrew D. Cherniack, Caleb F. Davis, Stephen J. Chanock, Nathan D. Dees, Adam Margolin, Haiyan I. Li, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Daniel E. Carlin, Tai Hsien Ou Yang, Rameen Beroukhim, Vincent Magrini, Mark P. Hamilton, Grace O. Silva, Nils Weinhold, Harshad S. Mahadeshwar, Michael S. Lawrence, Eric Chuah, Jun Li, Wei Li, Robert A. Burton, Teresa M. Przytycka, Katherine A. Hoadley, Keith A. Baggerly, Sheila M. Reynolds, Daniel DiCara, Tom Bodenheimer, Charles J. Vaske, James M. Eldred, Richard Varhol, Mark A. Jensen, David W. Kane, Xiaojia Ren, Christopher A. Miller, Elizabeth Buda, Li Ding, Michael Mayo, Hsin-Ta Wu, Joelle Kalicki-Veizer, Shelley M. Herbrich, Eunjung Lee, Yingchun Liu, Joshua F. McMichael, Jennifer Drummond, Teresa Swatloski, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, William Lee, Daniel J. Weisenberger, David A. Wheeler, Chia Chin Wu, Richard Kreisberg, Roeland Verhaak, Elena Helman, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Mary Goldman, Ilya Shmulevich, Nikolaus Schultz, Min Wang, Lovelace J. Luquette, Marco A. Marra, Todd Pihl, Roy Tarnuzzer, Ronglai Shen, Donna Morton, Yichao Sun, Lawrence A. Donehower, Jun Yao, Theo A. Knijnenburg, Benjamin J. Raphael, Lora Lewis, Peter Waltman, Andrea Eakin, Martin Hirst, Jaegil Kim, Lihua Zou, Ranabir Guin, Yi Han, Scott M. Smith, Hoon Kim, Kristen M. Leraas, Heidi J. Sofia, Erik Zmuda, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Michelle O'Laughlin, Jianjiong Gao, Jeffrey G. Reid, Jing Zhu, Toshinori Hinoue, Gunnar Rätsch, Hye Jung E. Chun, Anders Jacobsen, Stephen C. Benz, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Gordon B. Mills, Zhining Wang, Cynthia McAllister, Michael S. Noble, Christopher C. Benz, Rehan Akbani, Ruibin Xi, Nianxiang Zhang, Jay Bowen, Wei Zhang, Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Eric S. Lander, Yunhu Wan, David J. Dooling, Dong Yeon Cho, Preethi Gunaratne, Todd Wylie, Pei Lin, Chang-Jiun Wu, Jeffrey Roach, Scott Frazer, Samuel S. Freeman, Rachel Abbott, Zheng Xia, Lucinda Fulton, Kyle Ellrott, Nuria Lopez-Bigas, Yang Yang, Michael Miller, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Evan O. Paull, Janae V. Simons, Junyuan Wu, Lynda Chin, Gordon Saksena, Jiabin Tang, Vesteinn Thorsson, Robert A. Holt, Suhn K. Rhie, Steven J.M. Jones, Stuart R. Jeffreys, Giovanni Ciriello, Sofie R. Salama, Gideon Dresdner, Yiling Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology, Lander, Eric S., and Park, Peter J.
Subjects: Genetics, medicine.medical_specialty, Genome, Gene Expression Profiling, Genomics, Computational biology, Biology, Humans, Neoplasms, Article, Analysis Project, Gene expression profiling, GENÉTICA MOLECULAR, Cancer genome, Genomic Profile, medicine, Medical genetics, Epigenetics
Abstract: The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network has profiled and analyzed large numbers of human tumors to discover molecular aberrations at the DNA, RNA, protein and epigenetic levels. The resulting rich data provide a major opportunity to develop an integrated picture of commonalities, differences and emergent themes across tumor lineages. The Pan-Cancer initiative compares the first 12 tumor types profiled by TCGA. Analysis of the molecular aberrations and their functional roles across tumor types will teach us how to extend therapies effective in one cancer type to others with a similar genomic profile., National Cancer Institute (U.S.), National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.)
Published: 2013

44. Comprehensive molecular characterization of urothelial bladder carcinoma

Author: Elizabeth Buda, Nikolaus Schultz, Donghui Tan, Pat Swanson, Xingzhi Song, Jennifer Owens, Carmelo Gaudioso, Liming Yang, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Sophie C. Egea, John N. Weinstein, Lihua Zou, Dmitry A. Gordenin, Gad Getz, Stuart R. Jefferys, Wiam Bshara, David Haussler, Ari B. Kahn, Mary Iacocca, Brady Bernard, Charles M. Perou, Leigh B. Thorne, Kimberly R. Christ, Eric S. Lander, Yunhu Wan, Timothy J. Triche, Dong Zeng, Bogdan Czerniak, Wenbin Liu, Jianhua Zhang, David Mallery, B. Arman Aksoy, Lynn M. Herbert, Hailei Zhang, Jennifer DiPiero, Tod D. Casasent, Sugy Kodeeswaran, Daniel DiCara, Jacqueline E. Schein, Scott L. Carter, Umadevi Veluvolu, John M. S. Bartlett, Theresa M. Koppie, Ji Yeon Yang, Ronglai Shen, Yingchun Liu, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Ranabir Guin, Myra M. George, Marc Ladanyi, J. Todd Auman, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Shaowu Meng, Mark S. Soloway, Tatjana Antic, Greg Eley, Hikmat Al-Ahmadie, Carolyn M. Hutter, Jonathan G. Seidman, Corbin D. Jones, Lori Boice, Xiaoping Su, Jay Bowen, Raju Kucherlapati, Hui Shen, Benjamin Gross, Reanne Bowlby, Lawrence A. Donehower, Phan Thi Hanh, David J. McConkey, Saianand Balu, Jiexin Zhang, Tina Wong, Juok Cho, Alexei Protopopov, Carolyn L. Smith, Yuexin Liu, Angeliki Pantazi, Jason R. Gee, Xuan Van Le, Ricardo Ramirez, Ami S. Bhatt, Samuel S. Freeman, Jaegil Kim, Bui Duc Phu, Michael Ittman, Charles C. Guo, Carmen Gomez-Fernandez, Norm D. Smith, S. Onur Sumer, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Paul M. Weinberger, George E. Sandusky, Troy Shelton, Seth P. Lerner, Charles Saller, Nicholas J. Petrelli, Nguyen Van Bang, Sahil Seth, Richard A. Gibbs, Lisle E. Mose, Aaron D. Black, Yair Lotan, Carrie Sougnez, Jessie Au, Martin L. Ferguson, Ashley Marie Regazzi, Matthew Meyerson, Joel B. Nelson, Natasja Wye, Daniel E. Carlin, Nils Weinhold, Tom Bodenheimer, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Michael Ryan, Anders Jacobsen, Eric J. Burks, Lee Lichtenstein, Erin Curley, Angela Hadjipanayis, Nils Gehlenborg, Hector Rovira, Bernard Kohl, Jean C. Zenklusen, Travis Sullivan, Margaret Morgan, Rajiv Dhir, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Gary D. Steinberg, Mathew G. Soloway, Nina Thiessen, Jianjiong Gao, Lisa Wise, Barry S. Taylor, Gordon Saksena, Hui Yao, David Van Den Berg, Jiabin Tang, Robert Penny, Nguyen Viet Tien, Jeffrey R. Gingrich, Jing Zhu, Ronald L. Hrebinko, Dick Kreisberg, Pei Lin, Christopher A. Bristow, Andrey Sivachenko, Andy Chu, Peter W. Laird, Thomas Barr, Junyuan Wu, Robert A. Holt, Harshad S. Mahadeshwar, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Steven A. Roberts, Victor E. Reuter, Jeffrey S. Damrauer, Roni J. Bollag, Chad J. Creighton, Johanna Gardner, Michael Parfenov, Qiang Li, Phillip H. Lai, Thomas C. Motter, Alireza Moinzadeh, Jodi K. Maranchie, Christopher C. Benz, Lynda Chin, Angela Tam, Margi Sheth, David B. Solit, Erik Zmuda, Lixing Yang, Peter J. Park, Marco A. Marra, Katherine A. Hoadley, Eila C. Skinner, Scott Frazer, Roy Tarnuzzer, Heidi J. Sofia, Bradley M. Broom, Zhining Wang, David I. Heiman, Sebrina A Tello, Lori Huelsenbeck-Dill, Steven J.M. Jones, Antonia H. Holway, Ilana Rebecca Garcia-Grossman, Merce Jorda, Roeland Verhaak, Ilya Shmulevich, W.K. Rathmell, Bernard H. Bochner, Scot Waring, Kenneth Aldape, Richard A. Moore, Toshinori Hinoue, Carrie Hirst, Mark A. Jensen, Payal Kapur, Andrew D. Cherniack, Dean F. Bajorin, Evano Paull, Cheryl M. Lewis, William Y. Kim, Giovanni Ciriello, David C. Fargo, Gordon B. Mills, Michael S. Noble, Stephanie Weaver, Whitney D. McClenden, Benjamin Davies, Payal Sipahimalani, Vina Alexopoulou, Bo Peng, Stephen B. Baylin, Michael Mayo, Rameen Beroukhim, Boris Reva, Anil V. Parwani, Joshua M. Stuart, David J. Kwiatkowski, Stacey B. Gabrie, Janae V. Simons, Rehan Akbani, Todd Pihl, Nianxiang Zhang, Suzie Carter, Michael S. Lawrence, Carmen Helsel, Carl Morrison, Xiaojia Ren, Jeffrey Roach, Peter H. O'Donnell, Miruna Balasundaram, Yevgeniy Antipin, Gideon Dresdner, Cynthia McAllister, Tanja Davidsen, Brenda Rabeno, Jolanta Bondaruk, Kristian Cibulskis, Chip Stewart, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Jonathan E. Rosenberg, Brian D. Robinson, Patricia Castro, Wei Zhang, Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Allison Beaver, Andrew Wei Xu, Adrian Ally, Andrea Sorcini, Andrew J. Mungall, Katherine Tarvin, Christine Czerwinski, Petar Stojanov, Philip L. Lorenzi, Alan P. Hoyle, Jay Engel, Tara M. Lichtenberg, D. Neil Hayes, John A. Demchok, Eric Chuah, Benjamin Hanf, Deepak Srinivasan, Donna E. Hansel, Noreen Dhalla, Zhenlin Ju, Leszek J. Klimczak, Trevor J. Pugh, Richard Thorp, A. Gordon Robertson, Darlene Lee, Steven E. Schumacher, Semin Lee, Sheldon I. Bastacky, Rileen Sinha, Haiyan I. Li, William Lee, Sam Ng, Joel S. Parker, Sheila Reynolds, Teresa R. Tabler, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, David Pot, Chris Sander, Wenyi Wang, Weiguo Jian, Le Quang Vinh, Netty Santoso, Doug Voet, and Joonil Jung
Subjects: Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma, Invasive urothelial carcinoma, Virus Integration, Down-Regulation, Disease, Bioinformatics, Malignancy, Article, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, Cancer genome, medicine, Carcinoma, Humans, Molecular Targeted Therapy, RNA, Messenger, Urothelial carcinoma, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases, Cell Cycle, Creative commons, medicine.disease, Chromatin, 3. Good health, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, MicroRNAs, Oxidative Stress, Urinary Bladder Neoplasms, business, Protein Kinases, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, Signal Transduction
Abstract: Urothelial carcinoma of the bladder is a common malignancy that causes approximately 150,000 deaths per year worldwide. So far, no molecularly targeted agents have been approved for treatment of the disease. As part of The Cancer Genome Atlas project, we report here an integrated analysis of 131 urothelial carcinomas to provide a comprehensive landscape of molecular alterations. There were statistically significant recurrent mutations in 32 genes, including multiple genes involved in cell-cycle regulation, chromatin regulation, and kinase signalling pathways, as well as 9 genes not previously reported as significantly mutated in any cancer. RNA sequencing revealed four expression subtypes, two of which (papillary-like and basal/squamous-like) were also evident in microRNA sequencing and protein data. Whole-genome and RNA sequencing identified recurrent in-frame activating FGFR3-TACC3 fusions and expression or integration of several viruses (including HPV16) that are associated with gene inactivation. Our analyses identified potential therapeutic targets in 69% of the tumours, including 42% with targets in the phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase/AKT/mTOR pathway and 45% with targets (including ERBB2) in the RTK/MAPK pathway. Chromatin regulatory genes were more frequently mutated in urothelial carcinoma than in any other common cancer studied so far, indicating the future possibility of targeted therapy for chromatin abnormalities.
Published: 2013

45. Comprehensive molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma

Author: Amie Radenbaugh, Noreen Dhalla, Christina Williamson, Charles Saller, James Suh, Ramaswamy Govindan, Travis I. Zack, Paul T. Spellman, Daniel DiCara, Harvey I. Pass, Deepak Srinivasan, William G. Richards, Robert J. Cerfolio, Igor Letovanec, A. Gordon Robertson, Gabriel Sica, Chad J. Creighton, Hendrik Dienemann, Jeffrey A. Borgia, Boris Reva, Bryan F. Meyers, Yiling Lu, Nikolaus Schultz, Christopher I. Amos, Dante Trusty, Carmelo Gaudioso, Michael Meister, James T. Robinson, Lihua Zou, James Shin, Jeremy Parfitt, Darlene Lee, Junyuan Wu, Carl Morrison, Scott L. Carter, Giovanni Ciriello, Nils Weinhold, Elena Nemirovich-Danchenko, Andrew Wei Xu, Christopher G. Maher, Lori Boice, Irina Zaytseva, Dennis A. Wigle, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Matthew G. Soloway, Matthew Meyerson, Peng Chieh Chen, Frank Schneider, Troy Shelton, Douglas Voet, Steven E. Schumacher, D L Rotin, Saianand Balu, Stuart R. Jefferys, Tom Bodenheimer, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Eric S. Lander, Edward Gabrielson, Konstantin V. Fedosenko, Rehan Akbani, William D. Travis, Ari B. Kahn, Marcin Imielinski, Jacqueline E. Schein, Thomas L. Bauer, Kai Ye, Samuel A. Yousem, Robert C. Onofrio, Thomas Muley, Ayesha S. Bryant, Michael K. Asiedu, Monique Albert, Pei Lin, Corbin D. Jones, Edwina Duhig, Jean C. Zenklusen, Lucinda Fulton, Christina Yau, J. Todd Auman, Leigh B. Thorne, Elena Helman, Richard T. Cheney, William Lee, Patrick K. Kimes, Juok Cho, Alexei Protopopov, Wenbin Liu, Lee Lichtenstein, Jing Wang, Lixing Yang, W. Kimryn Rathmell, Jo Ellen Weaver, David A. Wheeler, Leslie Cope, Mark A. Watson, Heidi J. Sofia, Angeliki Pantazi, Ronglai Shen, Jeffrey Roach, Eric A. Collisson, Patrick Kwok Shing Ng, Angela Hadjipanayis, Peter S. Hammerman, David Van Den Berg, Kwun M. Fong, Nils Gehlenborg, Natasha Rekhtman, William K. Funkhouser, D. Neil Hayes, Harshad S. Mahadeshwar, Semin Lee, Martin Peifer, David Mallery, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Ranabir Guin, Madhusmita Behera, Philipp A. Schnabel, Jill M. Siegfried, Carmen Gomez-Fernandez, Johanna Gardner, Lynn M. Herbert, Hailei Zhang, Robert S. Fulton, Travis Sullivan, Sahil Seth, Sam Ng, Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Barry S. Taylor, Venkatraman E. Seshan, Valerie W. Rusch, Jinze Liu, Daniel P. Raymond, Jianjiong Gao, Nathan A. Pennell, Marco A. Marra, Jan F. Prins, Payal Sipahimalani, Janae V. Simons, Joel S. Parker, Rileen Sinha, Lindy Hunter, Raju Kucherlapati, Dennis T. Maglinte, Fedor Moiseenko, Eric E. Snyder, Roy Tarnuzzer, Beverly Lee, James Stephen Marron, Kristian Cibulskis, Jerome Myers, Haiyan I. Li, Robert Penny, Hartmut Juhl, Richard K. Wilson, Zhining Wang, Eran Hodis, Carrie Sougnez, Jiabin Tang, William Mallard, Bryan Hernandez, Liming Yang, Jennifer Brown, Gad Getz, Farhad Kosari, Catrina Fronick, Juliann Chmielecki, Jianhua Zhang, Suresh S. Ramalingam, Michael Parfenov, Peter J. Park, Tanja Davidsen, Philip H. Lai, Jeff Boyd, Dang Huy Quoc Thinh, Harmanjatinder S. Sekhon, Malcolm V. Brock, Mark Pool, Margi Sheth, Kimberly M. Rieger-Christ, Michael J. Liptay, E. Getz, S. Onur Sumer, Ian A. Yang, B. Arman Aksoy, Douglas B. Flieder, Bradley M. Broom, Carrie Hirst, Solange Peters, Joshua M. Stuart, Khurram Z. Khan, Scott Morris, Donghui Tan, Andrew J. Mungall, Ming-Sound Tsao, Gordon B. Mills, Stephen B. Baylin, Rebecca Carlsen, Sanja Dacic, Julien Baboud, Brenda Rabeno, Richard A. Hajek, Lauren Averett Byers, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Miruna Balasundaram, Chip Stewart, Katherine Tarvin, Peter B. Illei, James G. Herman, David J. Kwiatkowski, Andy Chu, David Haussler, Natasja Wye, Charles M. Perou, Peter W. Laird, Timothy J. Triche, Yan Shi, Jill P. Mesirov, Angela N. Brooks, Lori Huelsenbeck-Dill, Steven J.M. Jones, Antonia H. Holway, Lixia Diao, Anthony A. Gal, David G. Beer, Angela Tam, Ashley H. Salazar, Mark A. Jensen, Robert A. Holt, Katherine A. Hoadley, John A. Demchok, Sandra McDonald, Chandra Goparaju, David Pot, Belinda E. Clarke, Gordon Robertson, Michael C. Wendl, Helga Thorvaldsdottir, Kristen Rogers, Joshua D. Campbell, Chris Sander, Rayleen V. Bowman, Marc Danie Nazaire, Michael Mayo, Olga Voronina, Ludmila Danilova, Paul Zippile, Netty Santoso, John V. Heymach, Matthew D. Wilkerson, John Eckman, Morgan Windsor, Cureline Oleg Dolzhanskiy, Nina Thiessen, Mara Rosenberg, Gideon Dresdner, Levi A. Garraway, Eric Chuah, Richard Varhol, Elizabeth Buda, Li Ding, Alice H. Berger, Xingzhi Song, John M. S. Bartlett, Michael D. McLellan, Olga Potapova, Joseph Paulauskis, Igor Jurisica, Benjamin Gross, Jaegil Kim, John N. Weinstein, Kevin Lau, Christopher R. Cabanski, Philip Bonomi, Michael S. Noble, Maureen F. Zakowski, George E. Sandusky, Mary Iacocca, Eric J. Burks, Erin Curley, Lynda Chin, Rajiv Dhir, Singer Ma, Sophie C. Egea, Umadevi Veluvolu, Sugy Kodeeswaran, Christopher A. Miller, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Shaowu Meng, Mei Huang, Elaine R. Mardis, Gordon Saksena, Nicholas J. Petrelli, Yvonne Owusu-Sarpong, Christopher C. Benz, Bernard Kohl, Jingchun Zhu, David I. Heiman, Carol Farver, Scot Waring, Richard A. Moore, Darshan Singh, Andrew D. Cherniack, Rameen Beroukhim, Michael S. Lawrence, Xiaojia Ren, Marc Ladanyi, Stacey Gabriel, Christine Czerwinski, Alan P. Hoyle, Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, Collisson, E. A., Campbell, J.D., Brooks, A.N., Berger, A.H., Lee, W., Chmielecki, J., Beer, D.G., Cope, L., Creighton, C.J., Danilova, L., Ding, L., Getz, G., Hammerman, P.S., Hayes, D.N., Hernandez, B., Herman, J.G., Heymach, J.V., Jurisica, I., Kucherlapati, R., Kwiatkowski, D., Ladanyi, M., Robertson, G., Schultz, N., Shen, R., Sinha, R., Sougnez, C., Tsao, M.S., Travis, W.D., Weinstein, J.N., Wigle, D.A., Wilkerson, M.D., Chu, A., Cherniack, A.D., Hadjipanayis, A., Rosenberg, M., Weisenberger, D.J., Laird, P.W., Radenbaugh, A., Ma, S., Stuart, J.M., Averett Byers, L., Baylin, S.B., Govindan, R., Meyerson, M., Gabriel, S.B., Cibulskis, K., Kim, J., Stewart, C., Lichtenstein, L., Lander, E.S., Lawrence, M.S., Kandoth, C., Fulton, R., Fulton, L.L., McLellan, M.D., Wilson, R.K., Ye, K., Fronick, C.C., Maher, C.A., Miller, C.A., Wendl, M.C., Cabanski, C., Mardis, E., Wheeler, D., Balasundaram, M., Butterfield, Y.S., Carlsen, R., Chuah, E., Dhalla, N., Guin, R., Hirst, C., Lee, D., Li, H.I., Mayo, M., Moore, R.A., Mungall, A.J., Schein, J.E., Sipahimalani, P., Tam, A., Varhol, R., Robertson, A., Wye, N., Thiessen, N., Holt, R.A., Jones, S.J., Marra, M.A., Imielinski, M., Onofrio, R.C., Hodis, E., Zack, T., Helman, E., Sekhar Pedamallu, C., Mesirov, J., Saksena, G., Schumacher, S.E., Carter, S.L., Garraway, L., Beroukhim, R., Lee, S., Mahadeshwar, H.S., Pantazi, A., Protopopov, A., Ren, X., Seth, S., Song, X., Tang, J., Yang, L., Zhang, J., Chen, P.C., Parfenov, M., Wei Xu, A., Santoso, N., Chin, L., Park, P.J., Hoadley, K.A., Auman, J.T., Meng, S., Shi, Y., Buda, E., Waring, S., Veluvolu, U., Tan, D., Mieczkowski, P.A., Jones, C.D., Simons, J.V., Soloway, M.G., Bodenheimer, T., Jefferys, S.R., Roach, J., Hoyle, A.P., Wu, J., Balu, S., Singh, D., Prins, J.F., Marron, J.S., Parker, J.S., Perou, C.M., Liu, J., Maglinte, D.T., Lai, P.H., Bootwalla, M.S., Van Den Berg, D.J., Triche, T., Cho, J., DiCara, D., Heiman, D., Lin, P., Mallard, W., Voet, D., Zhang, H., Zou, L., Noble, M.S., Gehlenborg, N., Thorvaldsdottir, H., Nazaire, M.D., Robinson, J., Aksoy, B.A., Ciriello, G., Taylor, B.S., Dresdner, G., Gao, J., Gross, B., Seshan, V.E., Reva, B., Sumer, S.O., Weinhold, N., Sander, C., Ng, S., Zhu, J., Benz, C.C., Yau, C., Haussler, D., Spellman, P.T., Kimes, P.K., Broom, B.M., Wang, J., Lu, Y., Kwok Shing Ng, P., Diao, L., Liu, W., Amos, C.I., Akbani, R., Mills, G.B., Curley, E., Paulauskis, J., Lau, K., Morris, S., Shelton, T., Mallery, D., Gardner, J., Penny, R., Saller, C., Tarvin, K., Richards, W.G., Cerfolio, R., Bryant, A., Raymond, D.P., Pennell, N.A., Farver, C., Czerwinski, C., Huelsenbeck-Dill, L., Iacocca, M., Petrelli, N., Rabeno, B., Brown, J., Bauer, T., Dolzhanskiy, O., Potapova, O., Rotin, D., Voronina, O., Nemirovich-Danchenko, E., Fedosenko, K.V., Gal, A., Behera, M., Ramalingam, S.S., Sica, G., Flieder, D., Boyd, J., Weaver, J., Kohl, B., Huy Quoc Thinh, D., Sandusky, G., Juhl, H., Duhig, E., Illei, P., Gabrielson, E., Shin, J., Lee, B., Rodgers, K., Trusty, D., Brock, M.V., Williamson, C., Burks, E., Rieger-Christ, K., Holway, A., Sullivan, T., Asiedu, M.K., Kosari, F., Rekhtman, N., Zakowski, M., Rusch, V.W., Zippile, P., Suh, J., Pass, H., Goparaju, C., Owusu-Sarpong, Y., Bartlett, J.M., Kodeeswaran, S., Parfitt, J., Sekhon, H., Albert, M., Eckman, J., Myers, J.B., Cheney, R., Morrison, C., Gaudioso, C., Borgia, J.A., Bonomi, P., Pool, M., Liptay, M.J., Moiseenko, F., Zaytseva, I., Dienemann, H., Meister, M., Schnabel, P.A., Muley, T.R., Peifer, M., Gomez-Fernandez, C., Herbert, L., Egea, S., Huang, M., Thorne, L.B., Boice, L., Hill Salazar, A., Funkhouser, W.K., Rathmell, W.K., Dhir, R., Yousem, S.A., Dacic, S., Schneider, F., Siegfried, J.M., Hajek, R., Watson, M.A., McDonald, S., Meyers, B., Clarke, B., Yang, I.A., Fong, K.M., Hunter, L., Windsor, M., Bowman, R.V., Peters, S., Letovanec, I., Khan, K.Z., Jensen, M.A., Snyder, E.E., Srinivasan, D., Kahn, A.B., Baboud, J., Pot, D.A., Mills Shaw, K.R., Sheth, M., Davidsen, T., Demchok, J.A., Wang, Z., Tarnuzzer, R., Zenklusen, J.C., Ozenberger, B.A., Sofia, H.J., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology, and Lander, Eric S.
Subjects: Male, Lung Neoplasms, Adenocarcinoma/genetics, Adenocarcinoma/pathology, Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics, Female, Gene Dosage, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Genomics, Humans, Lung Neoplasms/genetics, Lung Neoplasms/pathology, Molecular Typing, Mutation/genetics, Oncogenes/genetics, Sex Factors, Transcriptome/genetics, Adenocarcinoma of Lung, Cell Cycle Proteins, Biology, Adenocarcinoma, Exon, Germline mutation, microRNA, Adenocarcinoma of the lung, medicine, Gene, Multidisciplinary, Oncogene, Oncogenes, medicine.disease, MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutation, Molecular biology, 3. Good health, Mutation, Transcriptome
Abstract: Adenocarcinoma of the lung is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Here we report molecular profiling of 230 resected lung adenocarcinomas using messenger RNA, microRNA and DNA sequencing integrated with copy number, methylation and proteomic analyses. High rates of somatic mutation were seen (mean 8.9 mutations per megabase). Eighteen genes were statistically significantly mutated, including RIT1 activating mutations and newly described loss-of-function MGA mutations which are mutually exclusive with focal MYC amplification. EGFR mutations were more frequent in female patients, whereas mutations in RBM10 were more common in males. Aberrations in NF1, MET, ERBB2 and RIT1 occurred in 13% of cases and were enriched in samples otherwise lacking an activated oncogene, suggesting a driver role for these events in certain tumours. DNA and mRNA sequence from the same tumour highlighted splicing alterations driven by somatic genomic changes, including exon 14 skipping in MET mRNA in 4% of cases. MAPK and PI(3)K pathway activity, when measured at the protein level, was explained by known mutations in only a fraction of cases, suggesting additional, unexplained mechanisms of pathway activation. These data establish a foundation for classification and further investigations of lung adenocarcinoma molecular pathogenesis.
Published: 2013

46. Using MEMo to Discover Mutual Exclusivity Modules in Cancer

Author: Chris Sander, Bulent Arman Aksoy, Ethan Cerami, Nikolaus Schultz, and Giovanni Ciriello
Subjects: DNA Copy Number Variations, Computers, Cancer, Computational Biology, Genomics, Computational biology, Biology, computer.software_genre, medicine.disease, Mutually exclusive events, Pathway analysis, Biochemistry, Article, Multiple data, Structural Biology, Neoplasms, Mutation, medicine, Humans, Gene Regulatory Networks, Data mining, computer, Software
Abstract: Although individual tumors show surprisingly diverse genomic alterations, these events tend to occur in a limited number of pathways, and alterations that affect the same pathway tend to not co-occur in the same patient. While pathway analysis has been a powerful tool in cancer genomics, our knowledge of oncogenic pathway modules is incomplete. To systematically identify such modules, we have developed a novel method, Mutual Exclusivity Modules in Cancer (MEMo). The method searches and identifies modules characterized by three properties: (1) member genes are recurrently altered across a set of tumor samples; (2) member genes are known to or are likely to participate in the same biological process; and (3) alteration events within the modules are mutually exclusive. MEMo integrates multiple data types and maps genomic alterations to biological pathways. MEMo's mutual exclusivity uses a statistical model that preserves the number of alterations per gene and per sample. The MEMo software, source code and sample data sets are available for download at: http://cbio.mskcc.org/memo.
Published: 2013

47. Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers

Author: Charles J. Vaske, Ying Du, Theodore C. Goldstein, Ping Yang, Yufeng Liu, Bryan Hernandez, Daniel R. Zerbino, Kenneth H. Buetow, Khurram Z. Khan, Semin Lee, Martin Peifer, Kristin G. Ardlie, James G. Herman, Sanja Dacic, Ashley Hill, Christopher Szeto, Jianjiong Gao, Singer Ma, Peng Chieh Chen, Carl F. Schaefer, David G. Beer, Kerstin David, Brent W. Zanke, Karen Mungall, Beverly Lee, Daniel DiCara, Kristen Rogers, Rui Jing, Christina Liquori, Carrie Sougnez, Ron Bose, Brian O'Connor, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Scott L. Carter, Andy Chu, Peter W. Laird, David J. Kwiatkowski, R. Craig Cason, Marie Christine Aubry, Rileen Sinha, Dennis T. Maglinte, Chad J. Creighton, Howard H. Sussman, Jill M. Siegfried, Laura A.L. Dillon, Agnes Viale, Marco A. Marra, Stephen E. Schumacher, Dennis A. Wigle, Yongjun Zhao, Robert C. Onofrio, Heidi J. Sofia, Ranabir Guin, Lori Boice, Ling Li, Mark Backus, Pei Lin, Prachi Kothiyal, Jan F. Prins, Lauren Averett Byers, Haiyan I. Li, An He, Ka Ming Nip, Chang-Jiun Wu, Peter Dolina, James A. Robinson, Saianand Balu, Collisson E, Jinze Liu, Nicholas D. Socci, Erin Pleasance, Joan Pontius, Christina Yau, Eric E. Snyder, Shaowu Meng, Mei Huang, Aaron McKenna, Corbin D. Jones, Carl Morrison, Malcolm V. Brock, Chris Wakefield, Jared R. Slobodan, Ethan Cerami, Angela Tam, Jane Peterson, Michael D. Topal, Jacob M. Kaufman, Elena Helman, Richard T. Cheney, Dominik Stoll, Cristiane M. Ida, Dante Trusty, Peter S. Hammerman, Yevgeniy Antipin, D. Neil Hayes, Anders Jacobsen, Anna K. Unruh, Noreen Dhalla, Candace Shelton, Peter Waltman, Chris Sander, Zhining Wang, Derek Y. Chiang, Elizabeth J. Thomson, Vonn Walter, JoEllen Weaver, Elena Nemirovich-Danchenko, Jacqueline E. Schein, Bradley M. Broom, Sandra C. Tomaszek, Peter A. Kigonya, Tod D. Casasent, Ari B. Kahn, Joanne Yi, Kyle Ellrott, John M. S. Bartlett, Payal Sipahimalani, William D. Travis, Douglas Voet, Sean P. Barletta, Elizabeth Chun, J. Todd Auman, Ludmila Danilova, Katherine A. Hoadley, Marcin Imielinski, Ramaswamy Govindan, David P. Carbone, Leigh B. Thorne, David A. Wheeler, Carrie Hirst, Barbara Tabak, Sugy Kodeeswaran, Ijeoma A. Azodo, James Stephen Marron, Michael S. Noble, Jianjua John Zhang, Paul K. Paik, Deepak Srinivasan, Boris Reva, B. Arman Aksoy, Kristian Cibulskis, Douglas B. Flieder, Fei Pan, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Ronglai Shen, Jinhua Zhang, Nils Weinhold, Harman Sekhon, David Van Den Berg, Mark S. Guyer, Robert Penny, Hartmut Juhl, Marc Danie Nazaire, Yiqun Zhang, Eric A. Collisson, Robin J.N. Coope, Tom Bodenheimer, Richard Thorp, Junyuan Wu, Matthew Meyerson, Nguyen Phi Hung, Jerome Myers, Artem Sokolov, Yidi J. Turman, Thomas Muley, Stephen B. Baylin, Anisha Gulabani, A. Gordon Robertson, Lynda Chin, Eric Chuah, Richard Varhol, Margi Sheth, Janae V. Simons, Nils Gehlenborg, Tanja Davidsen, Psalm Haseley, Miruna Balasundaram, Olga Potapova, Spring Yingchun Liu, W. Kimryn Rathmell, Bizhan Bandarchi-Chamkhaleh, Wendy Winckler, David Mallery, Nicholas J. Petrelli, Nicole Todaro, Alex E. Lash, James Shin, Travis Brown, Igor Jurisica, Benjamin Gross, Hailei Zhang, Nikolaus Schultz, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Nam Pho, William Pao, Darlene Lee, Zhen Fan, Troy Shelton, Yan Shi, Shelley Alonso, Carmelo Gaudioso, Peter B. Illei, Stuart R. Jefferys, Maureen F. Zakowski, Marian Rutledge, Bruce E. Johnson, Andrew J. Mungall, Eric S. Lander, Matthew G. Soloway, Michael Mayo, Christopher G. Maher, John V. Heymach, Lihua Zou, Dominique L. Berton, Nina Thiessen, Gary K. Scott, Anna L. Chu, Richard A. Hajek, Ming-Sound Tsao, Liming Yang, Qianxing Mo, Nguyen Van Bang, Martin Hirst, John Eckman, Erin Curley, Rajiv Dhir, Gad Getz, Stanley Girshik, Xuan Van Le, Jeff Boyd, Roman K. Thomas, Konstantin V. Fedosenko, Juok Cho, Alexei Protopopov, Nguyen Viet Tien, Lixing Yang, Laetitia Borsu, Steven J.M. Jones, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Mark Sherman, Andrew Crenshaw, Doug Voet, Elizabeth Buda, Jennifer Brown, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Rehan Akbani, Todd Pihl, Ruibin Xi, Nianxiang Zhang, Jessica Walton, Ricardo Ramirez, Lisle E. Mose, Leslie Cope, Greg Eley, Mark A. Jensen, John N. Weinstein, Li Ding, Li-Wei Chang, Matthew C. Nicholls, Peter J. Park, Bui Duc Phu, Christopher R. Cabanski, Bernard Kohl, Julien Baboud, Joseph Paulauskis, David Pot, Gordon Robertson, Jingchun Zhu, John A. Demchok, Eunjung Lee, Giovanni Ciriello, Mary Iacocca, Gordon Saksena, Jesse Walsh, Yupu Liang, William K. Funkhouser, Rashmi N. Sanbhadti, Sam Ng, Venkatraman E. Seshan, Valerie W. Rusch, Robert A. Holt, Robert Sfeir, Jung E. Hye-Chun, Kai Wang, Helga Thorvaldsdottir, Huy V. Nguyen, Christopher Wilks, Brian Craft, Donghui Tan, David Haussler, Charles M. Perou, Timothy J. Triche, Christopher C. Benz, Scot Waring, Peggy Yena, Richard A. Moore, Darshan Singh, Andrew D. Cherniack, Rameen Beroukhim, Michael S. Lawrence, Xiaojia Ren, Stacey Gabriel, Martha Hatfield, Christine Czerwinski, Alan P. Hoyle, Marc Ladanyi, Joshua M. Stuart, Andrey Sivachenko, Jacqueline D. Palchik, Thomas Zeng, Inanc Birol, Rohini Raman, Ijeoma Azodo, Jianhua Zhang, Adam B. Olshen, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Angela Hadjipanayis, Sachet A. Shukla, Barry S. Taylor, John M. Greene, Jill P. Mesirov, Petar Stojanov, Raju Kucherlapati, Richard Corbett, Farhad Kosari, Martin L. Ferguson, Natasha Rekhtman, Keith A. Baggerly, Scott Morris, Brenda Rabeno, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology, Lander, Eric S., and Park, Peter J.
Subjects: Lung Neoplasms, Squamous Differentiation, DNA Mutational Analysis, Adenocarcinoma of Lung, Biology, Adenocarcinoma, Article, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, Gefitinib, Mutation Rate, CDKN2A, Carcinoma, medicine, Humans, Molecular Targeted Therapy, Lung cancer, Multidisciplinary, Genome, Human, Gene Expression Profiling, Genes, p16, Genomics, medicine.disease, Genes, p53, Gene expression profiling, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Mutation, Cancer research, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Gene Deletion, medicine.drug, Necitumumab, Signal Transduction
Abstract: Lung squamous cell carcinoma is a common type of lung cancer, causing approximately 400,000 deaths per year worldwide. Genomic alterations in squamous cell lung cancers have not been comprehensively characterized, and no molecularly targeted agents have been specifically developed for its treatment. As part of The Cancer Genome Atlas, here we profile 178 lung squamous cell carcinomas to provide a comprehensive landscape of genomic and epigenomic alterations. We show that the tumour type is characterized by complex genomic alterations, with a mean of 360 exonic mutations, 165 genomic rearrangements, and 323 segments of copy number alteration per tumour. We find statistically recurrent mutations in 11 genes, including mutation of TP53 in nearly all specimens. Previously unreported loss-of-function mutations are seen in the HLA-A class I major histocompatibility gene. Significantly altered pathways included NFE2L2 and KEAP1 in 34%, squamous differentiation genes in 44%, phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase pathway genes in 47%, and CDKN2A and RB1 in 72% of tumours. We identified a potential therapeutic target in most tumours, offering new avenues of investigation for the treatment of squamous cell lung cancers., National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA126561), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA126551), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA126554), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA126543), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA126546), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA126563), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA126544), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143845), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143858), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA144025), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143882), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143866), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143867), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143848), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143840), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143835), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143799), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143883), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24 CA143843), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U54 HG003067), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U54 HG003079), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U54 HG003273)
Published: 2012

48. Mutual exclusivity analysis identifies oncogenic network modules

Author: Chris Sander, Ethan Cerami, Nikolaus Schultz, and Giovanni Ciriello
Subjects: Genome instability, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Cell signaling, Gene regulatory network, Method, Genomics, Synthetic lethality, Biology, Neoplasms, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Gene Regulatory Networks, Gene, Genetics (clinical), Ovarian Neoplasms, Internet, Oncogene, Models, Genetic, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Medical genetics, Female, Glioblastoma, Algorithms, Software, Signal Transduction
Abstract: Although individual tumors of the same clinical type have surprisingly diverse genomic alterations, these events tend to occur in a limited number of pathways, and alterations that affect the same pathway tend to not co-occur in the same patient. While pathway analysis has been a powerful tool in cancer genomics, our knowledge of oncogenic pathway modules is incomplete. To systematically identify such modules, we have developed a novel method, Mutual Exclusivity Modules in cancer (MEMo). The method uses correlation analysis and statistical tests to identify network modules by three criteria: (1) Member genes are recurrently altered across a set of tumor samples; (2) member genes are known to or are likely to participate in the same biological process; and (3) alteration events within the modules are mutually exclusive. Applied to data from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the method identifies the principal known altered modules in glioblastoma (GBM) and highlights the striking mutual exclusivity of genomic alterations in the PI(3)K, p53, and Rb pathways. In serous ovarian cancer, we make the novel observation that inactivation of BRCA1 and BRCA2 is mutually exclusive of amplification of CCNE1 and inactivation of RB1, suggesting distinct alternative causes of genomic instability in this cancer type; and, we identify RBBP8 as a candidate oncogene involved in Rb-mediated cell cycle control. When applied to any cancer genomics data set, the algorithm can nominate oncogenic alterations that have a particularly strong selective effect and may also be useful in the design of therapeutic combinations in cases where mutual exclusivity reflects synthetic lethality.
Published: 2012

49. Comprehensive molecular characterization of human colon and rectal cancer

Author: Donghui Tan, Nils Gehlenborg, Robert S. Fulton, Pat Swanson, Pei Lin, Chang-Jiun Wu, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, David Haussler, Marco A. Marra, Stephen E. Schumacher, Bernard Kohl, Jingchun Zhu, Lucinda Fulton, Charles M. Perou, Timothy J. Triche, Madhumati Gundapuneni, Mark Backus, Eve Shinbrot, Yonghong Xiao, Xuan Van Le, Liming Yang, Gad Getz, Stanley Girshik, Jessica Walton, Barbara Tabak, Greg Eley, Brian O'Connor, Larissa K. Temple, Saianand Balu, Eric A. Collisson, Tanja Davidsen, Elizabeth Buda, Janae V. Simons, Anisha Gulabani, Joseph Willis, Tod D. Casasent, Scott Morris, Doug Voat, Jireh Santibanez, Jennifer Drummond, Li Ding, Nicholas J. Petrelli, Andrew J. Mungall, Michael Mayo, Aaron D. Black, Gerald C. Chu, Elizabeth N. Medina, Huy V. Nguyen, Aaron E. Cozen, Yongjun Zhao, Hui Shen, Christopher Szeto, Brenda Rabeno, Martin Hirst, Bogumil Kaczkowski, Lisle E. Mose, Lora Lewis, Brian Craft, Joseph Paulauskis, Ari B. Kahn, Andy Chu, Peter W. Laird, Benjamin Gross, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Raju Kucherlapati, Matthew C. Nicholls, David Van Den Berg, Vesteinn Thorsson, Richard W. Park, Ethan Cerami, David A. Wheeler, Laura A.L. Dillon, Angela Tam, Julien Baboud, Kim D. Delehaunty, Katherine A. Hoadley, Ranabir Guin, Donna M. Muzny, Gordon Saksena, Shaowu Meng, Richard Kreisberg, Kenneth H. Buetow, Rajiv Dhir, Inanc Birol, Timo Erkkilä, Martin L. Ferguson, Robert A. Holt, Elaine R. Mardis, Aaron McKenna, Rohini Raman, Robert Sfeir, Mark Sherman, Andrew Crenshaw, J. Zachary Sanborn, Spring Yingchun Liu, Yuan Qing Wu, Jane Peterson, Eric E. Snyder, Lisa Iype, John N. Weinstein, Helga Thorvaldsdottir, Adam J. Bass, Dominik Stoll, Brady Bernard, Steven J.M. Jones, Peter Dolina, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, Jared R. Slobodan, Mark A. Jensen, Jacqueline E. Schein, Christie Kovar, Anders Jacobsen, Stephen C. Benz, J. Todd Auman, Juinhua Zhang, Peter Fielding, Paul T. Spellman, Jacqueline D. Palchik, Jay Bowen, Thomas Zeng, Douglas Voet, Arnulf Dörner, Joshua M. Stuart, Ryan Demeter, Theodore C. Goldstein, Keith A. Baggerly, Jorma J. de Ronde, Deepak Srinivasan, Boris Reva, Robert E. Pyatt, Andrew Kaufman, Timothy A. Chan, Alexei Protopopov, William G. Richards, Daniel R. Zerbino, Brenda Ayala, Martin R. Weiser, Psalm Haseley, Margaret Morgan, Mary Iacocca, Thomas Robinson, Chad J. Creighton, Dominique L. Berton, Da Yang, Peng Chieh Chen, Carl F. Schaefer, Peter White, Fred Denstman, Giovanni Ciriello, Matthew N. Bainbridge, Heidi J. Sofia, Irene Newsham, Jill P. Mesirov, Ling Li, Benjamin P. Berman, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Garrett M. Nash, Jason Walker, Nina Thiessen, Narayanan Sathiamoorthy, James A. Robinson, Petar Stojanov, Todd Wylie, Derek Y. Chiang, Kristin G. Ardlie, Jianjiong Gao, Lisa Wise, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Jeffrey G. Reid, Angela Hadjipanayis, Sachet A. Shukla, Barry S. Taylor, John M. Greene, Eric Chuah, Richard Varhol, Lisa R. Trevino, Charles J. Vaske, Ying Du, Arthur P. Goldberg, Rui Jing, Jon Whitmore, Joan Pontius, Yevgeniy Antipin, Kyle Ellrott, Nilsa C. Ramirez, Tom Bodenheimer, Junyuan Wu, Lynda Chin, Scott L. Carter, Hailei Zhang, Ryan Bressler, Adam Norberg, Stacey Gabriel, Martha Hatfield, Jonathan G. Seidman, Corbin D. Jones, Huyen Dinh, D. Neil Hayes, Christine Czerwinski, Gerald R. Fowler, Mark S. Guyer, Robert Penny, Alan P. Hoyle, Hartmut Juhl, Catrina Fronick, Margi Sheth, Christopher C. Benz, Scot Waring, Peggy Yena, Richard A. Moore, Darshan Singh, Toshinori Hinoue, Yaron S.N. Butterfield, Andrew D. Cherniack, Maria C. Mariano, Rameen Beroukhim, Michael S. Lawrence, Xiaojia Ren, Marc Ladanyi, Anna K. Unruh, Noreen Dhalla, Candace Shelton, Gary Witkin, Andrey Sivachenko, David Pot, Michael J. Zinner, Richard Thorp, Jan F. Prins, Eunjung Lee, A. Gordon Robertson, Wendy Winckler, Efsevia Vakiani, Chris Wakefield, Alex H. Ramos, Semin Lee, Zhining Wang, Sam Ng, Lihua Zhou, Christina Liquori, Rileen Sinha, Dennis T. Maglinte, Michael S. Noble, Haiyan I. Li, B. Arman Aksoy, Preethi H. Gunaratne, Michael Meyers, Daniel C. Koboldt, Lawrence A. Donehower, Darlene Lee, Jake Lin, Gary K. Scott, Hye Jung E. Chun, Sheila Reynolds, Anna L. Chu, Rehan Akbani, Todd Pihl, Ruibin Xi, Charles S. Fuchs, Nianxiang Zhang, Stanley R. Hamilton, Bradley M. Broom, Wei Zhang, Chris Sander, Marc Danie Nazaire, Carrie Hirst, Stephen B. Baylin, Joel E. Tepper, Kyle Chang, Miruna Balasundaram, Jen Brown, Yan Shi, Matthew G. Soloway, Richard A. Gibbs, Richard K. Wilson, Peter J. Park, Zhaoshi Zeng, John A. Demchok, Jesse Walsh, Rashmi N. Sanbhadti, Troy Shelton, Lixing Yang, Prachi Kothiyal, Monica M. Bertagnolli, Sean P. Barletta, Kristian Cibulskis, Yidi J. Turman, Nikolaus Schultz, Min Wang, Shelley Alonso, Carsten Zornig, P. Paty, Elizabeth J. Thomson, Peter A. Kigonya, Fei Pan, Yuexin Liu, Matthew Meyerson, Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Nam Pho, Stuart R. Jefferys, Daniel DiCara, Robert C. Onofrio, Erin Pleasance, Eric S. Lander, David J. Dooling, Christina Yau, Michael D. Topal, David B. Solit, Christopher Wilks, Ilya Shmulevich, Robin J.N. Coope, Ronglai Shen, Jose G. Guillem, R. Craig Cason, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology, and Lander, Eric S.
Subjects: DNA Copy Number Variations, Colorectal cancer, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, MLH1, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Mutation Rate, microRNA, medicine, Humans, Exome, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, POLD1, Rectal Neoplasms, Gene Expression Profiling, Microsatellite instability, Sequence Analysis, DNA, DNA Methylation, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, DNA methylation, Colonic Neoplasms, Mutation, Cancer research, KRAS
Abstract: To characterize somatic alterations in colorectal carcinoma, we conducted a genome-scale analysis of 276 samples, analysing exome sequence, DNA copy number, promoter methylation and messenger RNA and microRNA expression. A subset of these samples (97) underwent low-depth-of-coverage whole-genome sequencing. In total, 16% of colorectal carcinomas were found to be hypermutated: three-quarters of these had the expected high microsatellite instability, usually with hypermethylation and MLH1 silencing, and one-quarter had somatic mismatch-repair gene and polymerase ε (POLE) mutations. Excluding the hypermutated cancers, colon and rectum cancers were found to have considerably similar patterns of genomic alteration. Twenty-four genes were significantly mutated, and in addition to the expected APC, TP53, SMAD4, PIK3CA and KRAS mutations, we found frequent mutations in ARID1A, SOX9 and FAM123B. Recurrent copy-number alterations include potentially drug-targetable amplifications of ERBB2 and newly discovered amplification of IGF2. Recurrent chromosomal translocations include the fusion of NAV2 and WNT pathway member TCF7L1. Integrative analyses suggest new markers for aggressive colorectal carcinoma and an important role for MYC-directed transcriptional activation and repression., National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143799), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143835), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143840), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143843), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143845), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143848), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143858), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143866), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143867), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143882), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA143883), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U24CA144025), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U54HG003067), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U54HG003079), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U54HG003273)
Published: 2011

50. A Review on Models and Algorithms for Motif Discovery in Protein-Protein InteractionNetwork

Author: Concettina Guerra and Giovanni Ciriello
Subjects: Computational complexity theory, Computational Biology, Proteins, Biological Network, Motif Discovery, Graph Isomorphism, Biology, Biochemistry, Models, Biological, Protein protein interaction network, Eukaryotic Linear Motif resource, Business process discovery, Network motif, Genetics, Animals, Humans, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs, Motif (music), Graph isomorphism, Molecular Biology, Algorithm, Biological network, Algorithms, Protein Binding
Abstract: Several algorithms have been recently designed to identify motifs in biological networks, particularly in protein ^ protein interaction networks. Motifs correspond to repeated modules in the network that may be of biological interest. The approaches proposed in the literature often differ in the definition of a motif, the way the occurrences of a motif are counted and the way their statistical significance is assessed. This has strong implications on the computational complexity of the discovery process and on the type of results that can be expected. This review presents in a systematic way the different computational settings outlining their main features and limitations.
Published: 2008

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