Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer [PDF]
All cancers are caused by somatic mutations; however, understanding of the biological processes generating these mutations is limited. The catalogue of somatic mutations from a cancer genome bears the signatures of the mutational processes that have been operative.
Stefan M. Pfister+84 more
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Genetic correlations in mutation processes [PDF]
We study the role of phylogenetic trees on correlations in mutation processes. Generally, correlations decay exponentially with the generation number. We find that two distinct regimes of behavior exist. For mutation rates smaller than a critical rate, the underlying tree morphology is almost irrelevant, while mutation rates higher than this critical ...
A. S. Lapedes, Eli Ben-Naim
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Mutational processes shape the landscape of TP53 mutations in human cancer. [PDF]
Unlike most tumor suppressor genes, the most common genetic alterations in tumor protein p53 (TP53) are missense mutations1,2. Mutant p53 protein is often abundantly expressed in cancers and specific allelic variants exhibit dominant-negative or gain-of-function activities in experimental models3-8.
Giacomelli AO+26 more
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Mutational processes contributing to the development of multiple myeloma. [PDF]
AbstractTo gain insight into multiple myeloma (MM) tumorigenesis, we analyzed the mutational signatures in 874 whole-exome and 850 whole-genome data from the CoMMpass Study. We identified that coding and non-coding regions are differentially dominated by distinct single-nucleotide variant (SNV) mutational signatures, as well as five de novo structural ...
Hoang PH+4 more
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The effects of mutational processes and selection on driver mutations across cancer types. [PDF]
ABSTRACTEpidemiological evidence has long associated environmental mutagens with increased cancer risk. However, links between specific mutation-causing processes and the acquisition of individual driver mutations have remained obscure. Here we have used public cancer sequencing data to infer the independent effects of mutation and selection on driver ...
Temko D+4 more
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Deciphering Signatures of Mutational Processes Operative in Human Cancer
The genome of a cancer cell carries somatic mutations that are the cumulative consequences of the DNA damage and repair processes operative during the cellular lineage between the fertilized egg and the cancer cell. Remarkably, these mutational processes
Ludmil B. Alexandrov+4 more
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Mutational Processes Molding the Genomes of 21 Breast Cancers [PDF]
All cancers carry somatic mutations. The patterns of mutation in cancer genomes reflect the DNA damage and repair processes to which cancer cells and their precursors have been exposed. To explore these mechanisms further, we generated catalogs of somatic mutation from 21 breast cancers and applied mathematical methods to extract mutational signatures ...
Susanna L. Cooke+59 more
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Biochemical reconstitution of UV-induced mutational processes. [PDF]
AbstractWe reconstituted two biochemical processes that may contribute to UV-induced mutagenesis in vitro and analysed the mutational profiles in the products. One process is translesion synthesis (TLS) by DNA polymerases (Pol) δ, η and ζ, which creates C>T transitions at pyrimidine dimers by incorporating two dAMPs opposite of the dimers.
Sugiyama T, Chen Y.
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Mutational processes of tobacco smoking and APOBEC activity generate protein-truncating mutations in cancer genomes. [PDF]
Mutational signatures represent a footprint of tumor evolution and its endogenous and exogenous mutational processes. However, their functional impact on the proteome remains incompletely understood.
Adler N+7 more
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Ovarian cancer mutational processes drive site-specific immune evasion. [PDF]
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is an archetypal cancer of genomic instability 1 – 4 patterned by distinct mutational processes 5 , 6 , tumour heterogeneity 7 – 9 and intraperitoneal spread 7 , 8 , 10 .
Vázquez-García I+60 more
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