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whole-genome analysis of 1220 cancers reveals hundreds of genes deregulated by rearrangement-mediated cis-regulatory alterations Authors (12) Yiqun Zhang Fengju Chen Nuno A Fonseca Yao He Masashi Fujita Hidewaki Nakagawa[...] Alvis Brazma PCAWG Transcriptome Working Group PCAWG Structural Variation Working Group Chad J Creighton PCAWG Consortium Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details Inferring structural variant cancer cell fraction Authors (11) Marek Cmero Ke Yuan Cheng Soon Ong Jan Schröder PCAWG Evolution and Heterogeneity Working Group Niall M Corcoran Tony Papenfuss Christopher M Hovens Florian Markowetz Geoff Macintyre PCAWG Consortium Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details Integrative pathway enrichment analysis of multivariate omics data Authors (1459) Marta Paczkowska Jonathan Barenboim Nardnisa Sintupisut Natalie S Fox Helen Zhu Diala Abd-Rabbo[...] Nicholas van As Carolien HM van Deurzen Marc J van de Vijver L van’t Veer Christian von Mering Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes identifies driver rearrangements promoted by LINE-1 retrotransposition Authors (53) Bernardo Rodriguez-Martin Eva G Alvarez Adrian Baez-Ortega Jorge Zamora Fran SupekJonas Demeulemeester[...] Kathleen H Burns PCAWG Structural Variation Working Group Peter J Campbell Jose MC Tubio PCAWG Consortium Nature Genetics Published 1 March 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes Authors (1) ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium Nature Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Pathway and network analysis of more than 2500 whole cancer genomes Authors (1453) Matthew A Reyna David Haan Marta Paczkowska Lieven PC Verbeke Miguel Vazquez Abdullah Kahraman[...] Nicholas van As Carolien HM van Deurzen Marc J van de Vijver L van’t Veer Christian von Mering Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes Authors (1411) Yilong Li Nicola D Roberts Jeremiah A Wala Ofer Shapira Steven E Schumacher Kiran Kumar[...] Carolien HM van Deurzen Marc J van de Vijver L van’t Veer Christian von Mering PCAWG Consortium Nature Published 6 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details Reconstructing evolutionary trajectories of mutation signature activities in cancer using TrackSig Authors (10) Yulia Rubanova Ruian Shi Caitlin F Harrigan Roujia Li Jeff Wintersinger Nil Sahin Amit Deshwar PCAWG Evolution and Heterogeneity Working Group Quaid Morris PCAWG Consortium Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers Authors (48) Moritz Gerstung Clemency Jolly Ignaty Leshchiner Stefan C Dentro Santiago Gonzalez Daniel Rosebrock[...] PCAWG Evolution & Heterogeneity Working Group Paul T Spellman David C WedgePeter Van Loo PCAWG Consortium Nature Published 6 February 2020 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooDavid JonesScientific computingFull details The landscape of viral associations in human cancers Authors (15) Marc Zapatka Ivan Borozan Daniel S Brewer Murat Iskar Adam Grundhoff Malik Alawi[...] Colin S Cooper Roland Eils Vincent Ferretti Peter Lichter PCAWG Consortium Nature Genetics Published 2 March 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer Authors (1383) Ludmil B Alexandrov Jaegil Kim Nicholas J Haradhvala Mi Ni Huang Alvin Wei Tian Ng Yang Wu[...] Nicholas van As Carolien HM van Deurzen Marc J van de Vijver L van’t Veer Christian von Mering Nature Published 6 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details A community effort to create standards for evaluating tumor subclonal reconstruction Authors (33) Adriana SalcedoMaxime Tarabichi Shadrielle Melijah G Espiritu Amit G Deshwar Matei David Nathan M Wilson[...] Kyle Ellrott David C Wedge Quaid MorrisPeter Van Loo Paul C Boutros Nature Biotechnology Published 9 January 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Investigation of somatic CNVs in brains of synucleinopathy cases using targeted SNCA analysis and single cell sequencing Authors (16) Diego Perez-Rodriguez Maria Kalyva Melissa Leija-Salazar Tammaryn LashleyMaxime Tarabichi Viorica Chelban[...] Anthony HV Schapira Thomas T Warner Janice L Holton Zane Jaunmuktane Christos Proukakis Acta Neuropathologica Communications Published 23 December 2019 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Translating insights into tumor evolution to clinical practice: promises and challenges Authors (2)Matthew FittallPeter Van Loo Genome Medicine Published 29 March 2019 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Neoantigen-directed immune escape in lung cancer evolution Authors (29)Rachel RosenthalElizabeth Larose Cadieux Roberto SalgadoMaise Al Bakir David A Moore Crispin T Hiley[...]Peter Van Loo Stephan Beck Nicholas McGranahanCharles Swanton The TRACERx Consortium Nature Published 20 March 2019 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooCharles SwantonExperimental HistopathologyBioinformatics and BiostatisticsAdvanced SequencingScientific computingFull details Undifferentiated sarcomas develop through distinct evolutionary pathways Authors (25) Christopher D SteeleMaxime Tarabichi Dahmane Oukrif Amy P Webster Hongtao YeMatthew Fittall[...] Peter J Campbell Ludmil B AlexandrovPeter Van Loo Adrienne M Flanagan Nischalan Pillay Cancer Cell Published 18 March 2019 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Time series analysis of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and bevacizumab-treated breast carcinomas reveals a systemic shift in genomic aberrations Authors (19) Elen Kristine Höglander Silje Nord David C Wedge Ole Christian Lingjaerde Laxmi Silwal-Pandit Hedda vdL Gythfeldt[...] Bjørn NaumePeter Van Loo Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale Olav Engebraaten Vessela Kristensen Genome Medicine Published 29 November 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Neutral tumor evolution? Authors (11)Maxime Tarabichi Iñigo Martincorena Moritz Gerstung Armand M Leroi Florian Markowetz The PCAWG Evolution and Heterogeneity Working Group Paul T Spellman Quaid D Morris Ole Christian Lingjærde David C WedgePeter Van Loo Nature Genetics Published 29 October 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Pagination First page First Previous page Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page Next Last page Last Share the page Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email
Genomic basis for RNA alterations in cancer Authors (1461) Claudia Calabrese Natalie R Davidson Deniz Demircioğlu Nuno A Fonseca Yao He André Kahles[...] Marc J van de Vijver L van’t Veer Christian von Mering PCAWG Transcriptome Core Group PCAWG Consortium Nature Published 6 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
Genomic footprints of activated telomere maintenance mechanisms in cancer Authors (1413) Lina Sieverling Chen Hong Sandra D Koser Philip Ginsbach Kortine Kleinheinz Barbara Hutter[...] Nicholas van As Carolien HM van Deurzen Marc J van de Vijver L van’t Veer Christian von Mering Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
High-coverage whole-genome analysis of 1220 cancers reveals hundreds of genes deregulated by rearrangement-mediated cis-regulatory alterations Authors (12) Yiqun Zhang Fengju Chen Nuno A Fonseca Yao He Masashi Fujita Hidewaki Nakagawa[...] Alvis Brazma PCAWG Transcriptome Working Group PCAWG Structural Variation Working Group Chad J Creighton PCAWG Consortium Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
Inferring structural variant cancer cell fraction Authors (11) Marek Cmero Ke Yuan Cheng Soon Ong Jan Schröder PCAWG Evolution and Heterogeneity Working Group Niall M Corcoran Tony Papenfuss Christopher M Hovens Florian Markowetz Geoff Macintyre PCAWG Consortium Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
Integrative pathway enrichment analysis of multivariate omics data Authors (1459) Marta Paczkowska Jonathan Barenboim Nardnisa Sintupisut Natalie S Fox Helen Zhu Diala Abd-Rabbo[...] Nicholas van As Carolien HM van Deurzen Marc J van de Vijver L van’t Veer Christian von Mering Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes identifies driver rearrangements promoted by LINE-1 retrotransposition Authors (53) Bernardo Rodriguez-Martin Eva G Alvarez Adrian Baez-Ortega Jorge Zamora Fran SupekJonas Demeulemeester[...] Kathleen H Burns PCAWG Structural Variation Working Group Peter J Campbell Jose MC Tubio PCAWG Consortium Nature Genetics Published 1 March 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes Authors (1) ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium Nature Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Pathway and network analysis of more than 2500 whole cancer genomes Authors (1453) Matthew A Reyna David Haan Marta Paczkowska Lieven PC Verbeke Miguel Vazquez Abdullah Kahraman[...] Nicholas van As Carolien HM van Deurzen Marc J van de Vijver L van’t Veer Christian von Mering Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes Authors (1411) Yilong Li Nicola D Roberts Jeremiah A Wala Ofer Shapira Steven E Schumacher Kiran Kumar[...] Carolien HM van Deurzen Marc J van de Vijver L van’t Veer Christian von Mering PCAWG Consortium Nature Published 6 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
Reconstructing evolutionary trajectories of mutation signature activities in cancer using TrackSig Authors (10) Yulia Rubanova Ruian Shi Caitlin F Harrigan Roujia Li Jeff Wintersinger Nil Sahin Amit Deshwar PCAWG Evolution and Heterogeneity Working Group Quaid Morris PCAWG Consortium Nature Communications Published 5 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers Authors (48) Moritz Gerstung Clemency Jolly Ignaty Leshchiner Stefan C Dentro Santiago Gonzalez Daniel Rosebrock[...] PCAWG Evolution & Heterogeneity Working Group Paul T Spellman David C WedgePeter Van Loo PCAWG Consortium Nature Published 6 February 2020 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooDavid JonesScientific computingFull details
The landscape of viral associations in human cancers Authors (15) Marc Zapatka Ivan Borozan Daniel S Brewer Murat Iskar Adam Grundhoff Malik Alawi[...] Colin S Cooper Roland Eils Vincent Ferretti Peter Lichter PCAWG Consortium Nature Genetics Published 2 March 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer Authors (1383) Ludmil B Alexandrov Jaegil Kim Nicholas J Haradhvala Mi Ni Huang Alvin Wei Tian Ng Yang Wu[...] Nicholas van As Carolien HM van Deurzen Marc J van de Vijver L van’t Veer Christian von Mering Nature Published 6 February 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooDavid JonesFull details
A community effort to create standards for evaluating tumor subclonal reconstruction Authors (33) Adriana SalcedoMaxime Tarabichi Shadrielle Melijah G Espiritu Amit G Deshwar Matei David Nathan M Wilson[...] Kyle Ellrott David C Wedge Quaid MorrisPeter Van Loo Paul C Boutros Nature Biotechnology Published 9 January 2020 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Investigation of somatic CNVs in brains of synucleinopathy cases using targeted SNCA analysis and single cell sequencing Authors (16) Diego Perez-Rodriguez Maria Kalyva Melissa Leija-Salazar Tammaryn LashleyMaxime Tarabichi Viorica Chelban[...] Anthony HV Schapira Thomas T Warner Janice L Holton Zane Jaunmuktane Christos Proukakis Acta Neuropathologica Communications Published 23 December 2019 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Translating insights into tumor evolution to clinical practice: promises and challenges Authors (2)Matthew FittallPeter Van Loo Genome Medicine Published 29 March 2019 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Neoantigen-directed immune escape in lung cancer evolution Authors (29)Rachel RosenthalElizabeth Larose Cadieux Roberto SalgadoMaise Al Bakir David A Moore Crispin T Hiley[...]Peter Van Loo Stephan Beck Nicholas McGranahanCharles Swanton The TRACERx Consortium Nature Published 20 March 2019 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooCharles SwantonExperimental HistopathologyBioinformatics and BiostatisticsAdvanced SequencingScientific computingFull details
Undifferentiated sarcomas develop through distinct evolutionary pathways Authors (25) Christopher D SteeleMaxime Tarabichi Dahmane Oukrif Amy P Webster Hongtao YeMatthew Fittall[...] Peter J Campbell Ludmil B AlexandrovPeter Van Loo Adrienne M Flanagan Nischalan Pillay Cancer Cell Published 18 March 2019 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Time series analysis of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and bevacizumab-treated breast carcinomas reveals a systemic shift in genomic aberrations Authors (19) Elen Kristine Höglander Silje Nord David C Wedge Ole Christian Lingjaerde Laxmi Silwal-Pandit Hedda vdL Gythfeldt[...] Bjørn NaumePeter Van Loo Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale Olav Engebraaten Vessela Kristensen Genome Medicine Published 29 November 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Neutral tumor evolution? Authors (11)Maxime Tarabichi Iñigo Martincorena Moritz Gerstung Armand M Leroi Florian Markowetz The PCAWG Evolution and Heterogeneity Working Group Paul T Spellman Quaid D Morris Ole Christian Lingjærde David C WedgePeter Van Loo Nature Genetics Published 29 October 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details