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Title: Clock-like mutational processes in human somatic cells

Abstract

During the course of a lifetime, somatic cells acquire mutations. Different mutational processes may contribute to the mutations accumulated in a cell, with each imprinting a mutational signature on the cell's genome. Some processes generate mutations throughout life at a constant rate in all individuals, and the number of mutations in a cell attributable to these processes will be proportional to the chronological age of the person. Using mutations from 10,250 cancer genomes across 36 cancer types, we investigated clock-like mutational processes that have been operating in normal human cells. Two mutational signatures show clock-like properties. Both exhibit different mutation rates in different tissues. However, their mutation rates are not correlated, indicating that the underlying processes are subject to different biological influences. For one signature, the rate of cell division may influence its mutation rate. This paper provides the first survey of clock-like mutational processes operating in human somatic cells.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [2];  [5];  [3]
  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton (United Kingdom)
  2. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton (United Kingdom); Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  3. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton (United Kingdom)
  4. MRC Lab. of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  5. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton (United Kingdom); Addenbrooke's Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1236704
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-21254
Journal ID: ISSN 1061-4036; ng.3441
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Genetics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 47; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1061-4036
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; cancer; computational biology and bioinformatics; genomics

Citation Formats

Alexandrov, Ludmil B., Jones, Philip H., Wedge, David C., Sale, Julian E., Campbell, Peter J., Nik-Zainal, Serena, and Stratton, Michael R. Clock-like mutational processes in human somatic cells. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1038/ng.3441.
Alexandrov, Ludmil B., Jones, Philip H., Wedge, David C., Sale, Julian E., Campbell, Peter J., Nik-Zainal, Serena, & Stratton, Michael R. Clock-like mutational processes in human somatic cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3441
Alexandrov, Ludmil B., Jones, Philip H., Wedge, David C., Sale, Julian E., Campbell, Peter J., Nik-Zainal, Serena, and Stratton, Michael R. Mon . "Clock-like mutational processes in human somatic cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3441. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1236704.
@article{osti_1236704,
title = {Clock-like mutational processes in human somatic cells},
author = {Alexandrov, Ludmil B. and Jones, Philip H. and Wedge, David C. and Sale, Julian E. and Campbell, Peter J. and Nik-Zainal, Serena and Stratton, Michael R.},
abstractNote = {During the course of a lifetime, somatic cells acquire mutations. Different mutational processes may contribute to the mutations accumulated in a cell, with each imprinting a mutational signature on the cell's genome. Some processes generate mutations throughout life at a constant rate in all individuals, and the number of mutations in a cell attributable to these processes will be proportional to the chronological age of the person. Using mutations from 10,250 cancer genomes across 36 cancer types, we investigated clock-like mutational processes that have been operating in normal human cells. Two mutational signatures show clock-like properties. Both exhibit different mutation rates in different tissues. However, their mutation rates are not correlated, indicating that the underlying processes are subject to different biological influences. For one signature, the rate of cell division may influence its mutation rate. This paper provides the first survey of clock-like mutational processes operating in human somatic cells.},
doi = {10.1038/ng.3441},
journal = {Nature Genetics},
number = 12,
volume = 47,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

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  • Boot, Arnoud; Huang, Mi Ni; Ng, Alvin W. T.
  • Genome Research
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Recapitulation of human germline coding variation in an ultra-mutated infant leukemia
preprint, May 2018

  • Gout, Alexander M.; Kotecha, Rishi S.; Kaur, Parwinder
  • DOI: 10.1101/248690

Reliable analysis of clinical tumor-only whole exome sequencing data
posted_content, March 2019

  • Oh, Sehyun; Geistlinger, Ludwig; Ramos, Marcel
  • JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
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Network-based approaches elucidate differences within APOBEC and clock-like signatures in breast cancer
posted_content, May 2019

  • Kim, Yoo-Ah; Wojtowicz, Damian; Sarto, Rebecca
  • Genome Medicine
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Personalized oncogenomic analysis of metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma: using whole-genome sequencing to inform clinical decision-making
journal, April 2018

  • Chahal, Manik; Pleasance, Erin; Grewal, Jasleen
  • Molecular Case Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 2
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Whole genome sequencing analysis for cancer genomics and precision medicine
journal, February 2018

  • Nakagawa, Hidewaki; Fujita, Masashi
  • Cancer Science, Vol. 109, Issue 3
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The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas
journal, July 2018

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  • Science, Vol. 361, Issue 6397
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RNA sequence analysis reveals macroscopic somatic clonal expansion across normal tissues
journal, June 2019


APOBEC mutation drives early-onset squamous cell carcinomas in recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
journal, August 2018

  • Cho, Raymond J.; Alexandrov, Ludmil B.; den Breems, Nicoline Y.
  • Science Translational Medicine, Vol. 10, Issue 455
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SigsPack, a package for cancer mutational signatures
journal, September 2019

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  • BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 20, Issue 1
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Portrait of a cancer: mutational signature analyses for cancer diagnostics
journal, May 2019


Systems-epigenomics inference of transcription factor activity implicates aryl-hydrocarbon-receptor inactivation as a key event in lung cancer development
journal, December 2017

  • Chen, Yuting; Widschwendter, Martin; Teschendorff, Andrew E.
  • Genome Biology, Vol. 18, Issue 1
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Timing somatic events in the evolution of cancer
journal, July 2018


The rate and spectrum of mosaic mutations during embryogenesis revealed by RNA sequencing of 49 tissues
journal, May 2020


Medulloblastoma therapy generates risk of a poorly-prognostic H3 wild-type subgroup of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: a report from the International DIPG Registry
journal, July 2018

  • Gits, Hunter C.; Anderson, Maia; Stallard, Stefanie
  • Acta Neuropathologica Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1
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Integrated structural variation and point mutation signatures in cancer genomes using correlated topic models
journal, February 2019


Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age.
text, January 2018

  • Martincorena, Iñigo; Fowler, Joanna C.; Wabik, Agnieszka
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Genomics and clinical correlates of renal cell carcinoma.
text, January 2018

  • Mitchell, Thomas; Rossi, Sabrina; Klatte, Tobias
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers.
text, January 2020

  • Gerstung, Moritz; Jolly, Clemency; Leshchiner, Ignaty
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Epigenetic drift, epigenetic clocks and cancer risk
journal, May 2016

  • Zheng, Shijie C.; Widschwendter, Martin; Teschendorff, Andrew E.
  • Epigenomics, Vol. 8, Issue 5
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Reconstructing evolutionary trajectories of mutation signature activities in cancer using TrackSig.
text, January 2020


Single-cell analysis based dissection of clonality in myelofibrosis
text, January 2020

  • Mylonas, Elena; Yoshida, Kenichi; Frick, Mareike
  • Nature Publishing Group
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Aneuploid acute myeloid leukemia exhibits a signature of genomic alterations in the cell cycle and protein degradation machinery
journal, November 2018

  • Simonetti, Giorgia; Padella, Antonella; do Valle, Italo Farìa
  • Cancer, Vol. 125, Issue 5
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Somatic mutation load and spectra: A record of DNA damage and repair in healthy human cells: Human Somatic Mutation Load and Spectra
journal, August 2018

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  • Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, Vol. 59, Issue 8
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Mechanisms shaping the mutational landscape of the FRA3B/ FHIT -deficient cancer genome
journal, November 2018

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  • Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer, Vol. 58, Issue 5
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Somatic genome alterations in relation to age in lung adenocarcinoma
journal, March 2019

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Nonnegative tensor decomposition with custom clustering for microphase separation of block copolymers
journal, February 2019

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Tissue-specific mutation accumulation in human adult stem cells during life
journal, October 2016

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Pan-cancer genome and transcriptome analyses of 1,699 paediatric leukaemias and solid tumours
journal, February 2018


Mutational signatures reveal the dynamic interplay of risk factors and cellular processes during liver tumorigenesis
journal, November 2017


Discovering novel mutation signatures by latent Dirichlet allocation with variational Bayes inference
journal, April 2019


Understanding mutagenesis through delineation of mutational signatures in human cancer
journal, May 2016


A site specific model and analysis of the neutral somatic mutation rate in whole-genome cancer data
journal, April 2018


The genome-wide landscape of C:G > T:A polymorphism at the CpG contexts in the human population
journal, March 2020


New insights into the generation and role of de novo mutations in health and disease
journal, November 2016

  • Acuna-Hidalgo, Rocio; Veltman, Joris A.; Hoischen, Alexander
  • Genome Biology, Vol. 17, Issue 1
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Estimating the number of genetic mutations (hits) required for carcinogenesis based on the distribution of somatic mutations
journal, March 2019

  • Anandakrishnan, Ramu; Varghese, Robin T.; Kinney, Nicholas A.
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Aging and the rise of somatic cancer-associated mutations in normal tissues
journal, January 2018


Cross-species genomic landscape comparison of human mucosal melanoma with canine oral and equine melanoma.
text, January 2019

  • Wong, Kim; Van Der Weyden, Louise; Schott, Courtney R.
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
text, January 2020

  • Alexandrov, Ludmil B.; Kim, Jaegil; Haradhvala, Nicholas J.
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Computational Methods for Characterizing Cancer Mutational Heterogeneity
journal, June 2017


Genomic Alteration Burden in Advanced Prostate Cancer and Therapeutic Implications
journal, November 2019


Interpreting the Dependence of Mutation Rates on Age and Time
text, January 2016

  • Gao, Ziyue; Wyman, Minyoung J.; Sella, Guy
  • Columbia University
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Whole genome sequencing puts forward hypotheses on metastasis evolution and therapy in colorectal cancer
journal, November 2018


Error-prone bypass of DNA lesions during lagging-strand replication is a common source of germline and cancer mutations
journal, December 2018

  • Seplyarskiy, Vladimir B.; Akkuratov, Evgeny E.; Akkuratova, Natalia
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The MiAge Calculator: a DNA methylation-based mitotic age calculator of human tissue types
journal, February 2018


Somatic Mutations and Genome Stability Maintenance in Clonal Coral Colonies
journal, November 2019

  • López, Elora H.; Palumbi, Stephen R.
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol. 37, Issue 3
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Mutations beget more mutations – The baseline mutation rate and runaway accumulation
posted_content, July 2019

  • Ruan, Yongsen; Chen, Bingjie; Chen, Qingjian
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
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In-depth characterization of the cisplatin mutational signature in human cell lines and in esophageal and liver tumors
journal, April 2018

  • Boot, Arnoud; Huang, Mi Ni; Ng, Alvin W. T.
  • Genome Research, Vol. 28, Issue 5
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Mutational landscape in genetically engineered, carcinogen-induced, and radiation-induced mouse sarcoma
journal, July 2019


Therapy-induced mutations drive the genomic landscape of relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia
journal, January 2020


A pilot study of pembrolizumab in smoldering myeloma: report of the clinical, immune, and genomic analysis
journal, August 2019


Correlation of an epigenetic mitotic clock with cancer risk.
text, January 2016

  • Yang, Zhen; Wong, Andrew; Kuh, Diana
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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A practical guide for mutational signature analysis in hematological malignancies.
text, January 2019

  • Maura, Francesco; Degasperi, Andrea; Nadeu, Ferran
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Comprehensive molecular characterization of mitochondrial genomes in human cancers
text, January 2020

  • Yuan, Yuan; Ju, Young Seok; Kim, Youngwook
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Mutational Analysis of Field Cancerization in Bladder Cancer
journal, September 2020

  • Strandgaard, Trine; Nordentoft, Iver; Lamy, Philippe
  • Bladder Cancer, Vol. 6, Issue 3
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Significance of Wild-Type p53 Signaling in Suppressing Apoptosis in Response to Chemical Genotoxic Agents: Impact on Chemotherapy Outcome
journal, April 2017

  • Mirzayans, Razmik; Andrais, Bonnie; Kumar, Piyush
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol. 18, Issue 5
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Evolutionary analysis indicates that DNA alkylation damage is a byproduct of cytosine DNA methyltransferase activity
journal, February 2018


The effects of mutational processes and selection on driver mutations across cancer types
posted_content, June 2017

  • Temko, Daniel; Tomlinson, Ian P. M.; Severini, Simone
  • bioRxiv
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Somatic mutations and genome stability maintenance in clonal coral colonies
posted_content, October 2019


Aging and neurodegeneration are associated with increased mutations in single human neurons
journal, December 2017

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De novo mutational signature discovery in tumor genomes using SparseSignatures
journal, June 2021


Genomic evidence supports a clonal diaspora model for metastases of esophageal adenocarcinoma.
text, January 2020

  • Noorani, Ayesha; Li, Xiaodun; Goddard, Martin
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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HRDetect is a predictor of BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficiency based on mutational signatures.
text, January 2017

  • Davies, Helen; Glodzik, Dominik; Morganella, Sandro
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers.
text, January 2020


Reconstructing evolutionary trajectories of mutation signature activities in cancer using TrackSig.
text, January 2020


HRDetect is a predictor of BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficiency based on mutational signatures
journal, March 2017

  • Davies, Helen; Glodzik, Dominik; Morganella, Sandro
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The mutational footprints of cancer therapies
posted_content, June 2019

  • Pich, Oriol; Muiños, Ferran; Lolkema, Martijn Paul
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Chromothripsis during telomere crisis is independent of NHEJ, and consistent with a replicative origin
journal, March 2019

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Correlation of an epigenetic mitotic clock with cancer risk
journal, October 2016


Whole genome DNA sequencing provides an atlas of somatic mutagenesis in healthy human cells and identifies a tumor-prone cell type
journal, December 2019


Interpreting the dependence of mutation rates on age and time
preprint, January 2015


Comparative genomics reveals that loss of lunatic fringe (LFNG) promotes melanoma metastasis
journal, January 2018

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Aneuploid acute myeloid leukemia exhibits a signature of genomic alterations in the cell cycle and protein degradation machinery
journal, November 2018

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Next‐Generation Genotoxicology: Using Modern Sequencing Technologies to Assess Somatic Mutagenesis and Cancer Risk
journal, November 2019

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Somatic mutations in neurons during aging and neurodegeneration
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Timing the Landmark Events in the Evolution of Clear Cell Renal Cell Cancer: TRACERx Renal
journal, April 2018


Characterizing Mutational Signatures in Human Cancer Cell Lines Reveals Episodic APOBEC Mutagenesis
journal, March 2019


Somatic Mutations Reveal Lineage Relationships and Age-Related Mutagenesis in Human Hematopoiesis
journal, November 2018


Epstein–Barr Virus Infection of Mammary Epithelial Cells Promotes Malignant Transformation
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Whole Genome Analyses of Chinese Population and De Novo Assembly of A Northern Han Genome
journal, June 2019

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Epidermal Darwinism and Competitive Equilibrium within the Epidermis
journal, November 2018


Pan-cancer genome and transcriptome analyses of 1,699 paediatric leukaemias and solid tumours
journal, February 2018


Analysis of cancer genomes reveals basic features of human aging and its role in cancer development
journal, August 2016

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Differences between germline and somatic mutation rates in humans and mice
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Distinct patterns of somatic genome alterations in lung adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas
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Base changes in tumour DNA have the power to reveal the causes and evolution of cancer
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High-throughput sequencing of nodal marginal zone lymphomas identifies recurrent BRAF mutations
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APOBEC-induced mutations and their cancer effect size in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
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Assessment of somatic single-nucleotide variation in brain tissue of cases with schizophrenia
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Integrative genomic profiling of large-cell neuroendocrine carcinomas reveals distinct subtypes of high-grade neuroendocrine lung tumors
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Somatic mutagenesis in satellite cells associates with human skeletal muscle aging
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Whole genome sequencing puts forward hypotheses on metastasis evolution and therapy in colorectal cancer
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ALPK1 hotspot mutation as a driver of human spiradenoma and spiradenocarcinoma
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Brain somatic mutations observed in Alzheimer’s disease associated with aging and dysregulation of tau phosphorylation
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Genomic landscape and chronological reconstruction of driver events in multiple myeloma
journal, August 2019


Integrated exome and RNA sequencing of dedifferentiated liposarcoma
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Extreme intratumour heterogeneity and driver evolution in mismatch repair deficient gastro-oesophageal cancer
journal, January 2020


Reconstructing evolutionary trajectories of mutation signature activities in cancer using TrackSig
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Mapping the breast cancer metastatic cascade onto ctDNA using genetic and epigenetic clonal tracking
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Author Correction: The effects of mutational processes and selection on driver mutations across cancer types
journal, April 2020


An alternative model for (breast) cancer predisposition
journal, April 2017


The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
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DNA methylation loss in late-replicating domains is linked to mitotic cell division
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Mutational processes shape the landscape of TP53 mutations in human cancer
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Error-prone bypass of DNA lesions during lagging-strand replication is a common source of germline and cancer mutations
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Genomic features of renal cell carcinoma with venous tumor thrombus
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Burden of unique and low prevalence somatic mutations correlates with cancer survival
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Measuring intratumor heterogeneity by network entropy using RNA-seq data
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Single-cell whole-genome sequencing reveals the functional landscape of somatic mutations in B lymphocytes across the human lifespan
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Complex chromosomal rearrangements by single catastrophic pathogenesis in NUT midline carcinoma
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EGFR mutation subtypes and response to immune checkpoint blockade treatment in non-small-cell lung cancer
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Discovering novel mutation signatures by latent Dirichlet allocation with variational Bayes inference
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The interaction between cytosine methylation and processes of DNA replication and repair shape the mutational landscape of cancer genomes
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Uncovering a unique approach for damaged DNA replication: A computational investigation of a mutagenic tobacco-derived thymine lesion
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Personalized oncogenomic analysis of metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma: using whole-genome sequencing to inform clinical decision-making
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Molecular and clonal evolution in recurrent metastatic gliosarcoma
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Somatic Variants in the Human Lens Epithelium: A Preliminary Assessment
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Single-Cell Analysis Based Dissection of Clonality in Myelofibrosis
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Mutational Signatures in Cancer (MuSiCa): a web application to implement mutational signatures analysis in cancer samples
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Relation between DNA ionization potentials, single base substitutions and pathogenic variants
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The genome-wide landscape of C:G > T:A polymorphism at the CpG contexts in the human population
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Utility of circulating tumor DNA in cancer diagnostics with emphasis on early detection
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A comprehensive survey of the mutagenic impact of common cancer cytotoxics
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A new timepiece: an epigenetic mitotic clock
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Timing somatic events in the evolution of cancer
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Whole genome DNA sequencing provides an atlas of somatic mutagenesis in healthy human cells and identifies a tumor-prone cell type
journal, December 2019


Exploring the implications of distinct mutational signatures and mutation rates in aging and cancer
journal, March 2016


Hidden Markov models lead to higher resolution maps of mutation signature activity in cancer
journal, July 2019


Medulloblastoma therapy generates risk of a poorly-prognostic H3 wild-type subgroup of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: a report from the International DIPG Registry
journal, July 2018

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Integrated structural variation and point mutation signatures in cancer genomes using correlated topic models
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The Impact of Environmental and Endogenous Damage on Somatic Mutation Load in Human Skin Fibroblasts
journal, October 2016


Aging and the rise of somatic cancer-associated mutations in normal tissues
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Analysis of 7,815 cancer exomes reveals associations between mutational processes and somatic driver mutations
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The Origins and Vulnerabilities of Two Transmissible Cancers in Tasmanian Devils.
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The ubiquitous ‘cancer mutational signature’ 5 occurs specifically in cancers with deleted FHIT alleles
journal, November 2017


Somatic genome alterations in relation to age in lung squamous cell carcinoma
journal, August 2018


DNA Repair Pathway Alterations in Bladder Cancer
journal, March 2017


Significance of Wild-Type p53 Signaling in Suppressing Apoptosis in Response to Chemical Genotoxic Agents: Impact on Chemotherapy Outcome
journal, April 2017

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Reliability of Whole-Exome Sequencing for Assessing Intratumor Genetic Heterogeneity
text, January 2018


5-hydroxymethylcytosine marks regions with reduced mutation frequency in human DNA
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