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Verfaillie[...]Peter Van Loo Cristina R Antonescu Peter J Campbell Adrienne M Flanagan Sam Behjati Nature Communications Published 1 June 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Sequencing of prostate cancers identifies new cancer genes, routes of progression and drug targets Authors (88) David C Wedge Gunes Gundem Thomas Mitchell Dan J Woodcock Inigo Martincorena Mohammed Ghori[...] Christopher S Foster Daniel S Brewer David E Neal Colin S Cooper Rosalind A Eeles Nature Genetics Published 1 May 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Deterministic evolutionary trajectories influence primary tumor growth: TRACERx Renal Authors (71)Samra TurajlicHang XuKevin LitchfieldAndrew Rowan Stuart Horswell Tim Chambers[...]Peter Van Loo Peter Campbell James LarkinCharles Swanton TRACERx Renal Consortium Cell Published 19 April 2018 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooSamra TurajlicCharles SwantonNicholas LuscombeExperimental HistopathologyBioinformatics and BiostatisticsAdvanced SequencingScientific computingFull details How subclonal modeling is changing the metastatic paradigm Authors (6) Geoff MacintyrePeter Van Loo Niall M Corcoran David C Wedge Florian Markowetz Christopher M Hovens Clinical cancer research Published 18 November 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Pan-cancer analysis of homozygous deletions in primary tumours uncovers rare tumour suppressors Authors (18) Jiqiu ChengJonas Demeulemeester David C Wedge Hans Kristian Vollan Jason J Pitt Hege G Russnes[...] Vessela N Kristensen Michael R Stratton Ole Christian Lingjærde Yves MoreauPeter Van Loo Nature Communications Published 31 October 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Allele-specific HLA loss and immune escape in lung cancer evolution Authors (12) Nicholas McGranahan Rachel Rosenthal Crispin T HileyAndrew Rowan Thomas BK Watkins Gareth A Wilson[...] Selvaraju VeeriahPeter Van Loo Javier HerreroCharles Swanton TRACERx Consortium Cell Published 30 November 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooSamra TurajlicCharles SwantonFull details Universal patterns of selection in cancer and somatic tissues Authors (9) Iñigo Martincorena Keiran M Raine Moritz Gerstung Kevin J DawsonKerstin HaasePeter Van Loo Helen Davies Michael R Stratton Peter J Campbell Cell Published 14 June 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Appraising the relevance of DNA copy number loss and gain in prostate cancer using whole genome DNA sequence data Authors (57) Niedzica CamachoPeter Van Loo Sandra Edwards Jonathan D Kay Lucy MatthewsKerstin Haase[...] Ultan McDermott David E Neal Rosalind Eeles Colin S Cooper Daniel S Brewer PLOS Genetics Published 25 September 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Genomic evolution of breast cancer metastasis and relapse Authors (30) Lucy R Yates Stian Knappskog David Wedge James HR Farmery Santiago Gonzalez Inigo Martincorena[...] John W Martens Andrea L Richardson Andrew Tutt Per Eystein Lønning Peter J Campbell Cancer Cell Published 14 August 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Intratumoural evolutionary landscape of high-risk prostate cancer: the PROGENY study of genomic and immune parameters Authors (34) M Linch G GohCrispin Hiley Y Shanmugabavan N McGranahanAndrew Rowan[...] SA Quezada T Marafioti M Gerlinger HU AhmedCharles Swanton Annals of Oncology Published 1 October 2017 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooCharles SwantonBioinformatics and BiostatisticsFull details Recurrent mutation of IGF signalling genes and distinct patterns of genomic rearrangement in osteosarcoma Authors (33) Sam Behjati Patrick S TarpeyKerstin Haase Hongtao Ye Matthew D Young Ludmil B Alexandrov[...] Roberto TiraboscoPeter Van Loo Michael R Stratton Adrienne M Flanagan Peter J Campbell Nature Communications Published 23 June 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Phylogenetic ctDNA analysis depicts early-stage lung cancer evolution Authors (105) Christopher AbboshNicolai BirkbakGareth Wilson Mariam Jamal-Hanjani Tudor Constantin Raheleh Salari[...] Jacqui A Shaw Bernhard G Zimmermann The TRACERx Consortium The PEACE ConsortiumCharles Swanton Nature Published 25 May 2017 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooSamra TurajlicCharles SwantonBioinformatics and BiostatisticsAdvanced SequencingFull details Tracking the evolution of non-small-cell lung cancer Authors (84) Mariam Jamal-Hanjani Gareth A Wilson Nicholas McGranahanNicolai BirkbakTom WatkinsSelvaraju Veeriah[...]Peter Van Loo Caroline Dive Allan HackshawCharles Swanton The TRACERx Consortium New England Journal of Medicine Published 26 April 2017 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooSamra TurajlicCharles SwantonBioinformatics and BiostatisticsAdvanced SequencingFull details Principles of reconstructing the subclonal architecture of cancers Authors (3) Stefan C Dentro David C WedgePeter Van Loo Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine Published 7 March 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Tracing the origin of disseminated tumor cells in breast cancer using single-cell sequencing Authors (20)Jonas Demeulemeester Parveen Kumar Elen K Møller Silje Nord David C Wedge April Peterson[...] Kevin P White Vessela N KristensenPeter Van Loo Thierry Voet Bjørn Naume Genome Biology Published 9 December 2016 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details ascatNgs: identifying somatically acquired copy-number alterations from whole-genome sequencing data Authors (10) Keiran M RainePeter Van Loo David C Wedge David Jones Andrew Menzies Adam P Butler Jon W Teague Patrick Tarpey Serena Nik-Zainal Peter J Campbell Current Protocols in Bioinformatics Published 8 December 2016 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Mutational signatures associated with tobacco smoking in human cancer Authors (14) Ludmil B Alexandrov Young Seok JuKerstin HaasePeter Van Loo Inigo Martincorena Serena Nik-Zainal[...] Tatsuhiro Shibata Peter J Campbell Paolo Vineis David H Phillips Michael R Stratton Science Published 4 November 2016 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Mutational signatures of ionizing radiation in second malignancies Authors (34) Sam Behjati Gunes Gundem David C Wedge Nicola D Roberts Patrick S Tarpey Susanna L Cooke[...] Andrea L Richardson Adrienne M Flanagan Michael R Stratton Peter J Campbell ICGC Prostate Group Nature Communications Published 12 September 2016 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details Pagination First page First Previous page Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current 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
Characterization of Nigerian breast cancer reveals prevalent homologous recombination deficiency and aggressive molecular features Authors (54) Jason J Pitt Markus Riester Yonglan Zheng Toshio F Yoshimatsu Ayodele Sanni Olayiwola Oluwasola[...] Nasiru Ibrahim Kevin P White Dezheng Huo Olufunmilayo I Olopade Jordi Barretina Nature Communications Published 16 October 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Timing somatic events in the evolution of cancer Authors (2)Clemency JollyPeter Van Loo Genome Biology Published 24 July 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Recurrent rearrangements of FOS and FOSB define osteoblastoma Authors (22)Matthew Fittall William Mifsud Nischalan Pillay Hongtao Ye Anna-Christina StroblAnnelien Verfaillie[...]Peter Van Loo Cristina R Antonescu Peter J Campbell Adrienne M Flanagan Sam Behjati Nature Communications Published 1 June 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Sequencing of prostate cancers identifies new cancer genes, routes of progression and drug targets Authors (88) David C Wedge Gunes Gundem Thomas Mitchell Dan J Woodcock Inigo Martincorena Mohammed Ghori[...] Christopher S Foster Daniel S Brewer David E Neal Colin S Cooper Rosalind A Eeles Nature Genetics Published 1 May 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Deterministic evolutionary trajectories influence primary tumor growth: TRACERx Renal Authors (71)Samra TurajlicHang XuKevin LitchfieldAndrew Rowan Stuart Horswell Tim Chambers[...]Peter Van Loo Peter Campbell James LarkinCharles Swanton TRACERx Renal Consortium Cell Published 19 April 2018 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooSamra TurajlicCharles SwantonNicholas LuscombeExperimental HistopathologyBioinformatics and BiostatisticsAdvanced SequencingScientific computingFull details
How subclonal modeling is changing the metastatic paradigm Authors (6) Geoff MacintyrePeter Van Loo Niall M Corcoran David C Wedge Florian Markowetz Christopher M Hovens Clinical cancer research Published 18 November 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Pan-cancer analysis of homozygous deletions in primary tumours uncovers rare tumour suppressors Authors (18) Jiqiu ChengJonas Demeulemeester David C Wedge Hans Kristian Vollan Jason J Pitt Hege G Russnes[...] Vessela N Kristensen Michael R Stratton Ole Christian Lingjærde Yves MoreauPeter Van Loo Nature Communications Published 31 October 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Allele-specific HLA loss and immune escape in lung cancer evolution Authors (12) Nicholas McGranahan Rachel Rosenthal Crispin T HileyAndrew Rowan Thomas BK Watkins Gareth A Wilson[...] Selvaraju VeeriahPeter Van Loo Javier HerreroCharles Swanton TRACERx Consortium Cell Published 30 November 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooSamra TurajlicCharles SwantonFull details
Universal patterns of selection in cancer and somatic tissues Authors (9) Iñigo Martincorena Keiran M Raine Moritz Gerstung Kevin J DawsonKerstin HaasePeter Van Loo Helen Davies Michael R Stratton Peter J Campbell Cell Published 14 June 2018 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Appraising the relevance of DNA copy number loss and gain in prostate cancer using whole genome DNA sequence data Authors (57) Niedzica CamachoPeter Van Loo Sandra Edwards Jonathan D Kay Lucy MatthewsKerstin Haase[...] Ultan McDermott David E Neal Rosalind Eeles Colin S Cooper Daniel S Brewer PLOS Genetics Published 25 September 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Genomic evolution of breast cancer metastasis and relapse Authors (30) Lucy R Yates Stian Knappskog David Wedge James HR Farmery Santiago Gonzalez Inigo Martincorena[...] John W Martens Andrea L Richardson Andrew Tutt Per Eystein Lønning Peter J Campbell Cancer Cell Published 14 August 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Intratumoural evolutionary landscape of high-risk prostate cancer: the PROGENY study of genomic and immune parameters Authors (34) M Linch G GohCrispin Hiley Y Shanmugabavan N McGranahanAndrew Rowan[...] SA Quezada T Marafioti M Gerlinger HU AhmedCharles Swanton Annals of Oncology Published 1 October 2017 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooCharles SwantonBioinformatics and BiostatisticsFull details
Recurrent mutation of IGF signalling genes and distinct patterns of genomic rearrangement in osteosarcoma Authors (33) Sam Behjati Patrick S TarpeyKerstin Haase Hongtao Ye Matthew D Young Ludmil B Alexandrov[...] Roberto TiraboscoPeter Van Loo Michael R Stratton Adrienne M Flanagan Peter J Campbell Nature Communications Published 23 June 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Phylogenetic ctDNA analysis depicts early-stage lung cancer evolution Authors (105) Christopher AbboshNicolai BirkbakGareth Wilson Mariam Jamal-Hanjani Tudor Constantin Raheleh Salari[...] Jacqui A Shaw Bernhard G Zimmermann The TRACERx Consortium The PEACE ConsortiumCharles Swanton Nature Published 25 May 2017 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooSamra TurajlicCharles SwantonBioinformatics and BiostatisticsAdvanced SequencingFull details
Tracking the evolution of non-small-cell lung cancer Authors (84) Mariam Jamal-Hanjani Gareth A Wilson Nicholas McGranahanNicolai BirkbakTom WatkinsSelvaraju Veeriah[...]Peter Van Loo Caroline Dive Allan HackshawCharles Swanton The TRACERx Consortium New England Journal of Medicine Published 26 April 2017 Crick labs/ facilitiesPeter Van LooSamra TurajlicCharles SwantonBioinformatics and BiostatisticsAdvanced SequencingFull details
Principles of reconstructing the subclonal architecture of cancers Authors (3) Stefan C Dentro David C WedgePeter Van Loo Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine Published 7 March 2017 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Tracing the origin of disseminated tumor cells in breast cancer using single-cell sequencing Authors (20)Jonas Demeulemeester Parveen Kumar Elen K Møller Silje Nord David C Wedge April Peterson[...] Kevin P White Vessela N KristensenPeter Van Loo Thierry Voet Bjørn Naume Genome Biology Published 9 December 2016 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
ascatNgs: identifying somatically acquired copy-number alterations from whole-genome sequencing data Authors (10) Keiran M RainePeter Van Loo David C Wedge David Jones Andrew Menzies Adam P Butler Jon W Teague Patrick Tarpey Serena Nik-Zainal Peter J Campbell Current Protocols in Bioinformatics Published 8 December 2016 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Mutational signatures associated with tobacco smoking in human cancer Authors (14) Ludmil B Alexandrov Young Seok JuKerstin HaasePeter Van Loo Inigo Martincorena Serena Nik-Zainal[...] Tatsuhiro Shibata Peter J Campbell Paolo Vineis David H Phillips Michael R Stratton Science Published 4 November 2016 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details
Mutational signatures of ionizing radiation in second malignancies Authors (34) Sam Behjati Gunes Gundem David C Wedge Nicola D Roberts Patrick S Tarpey Susanna L Cooke[...] Andrea L Richardson Adrienne M Flanagan Michael R Stratton Peter J Campbell ICGC Prostate Group Nature Communications Published 12 September 2016 Crick labsPeter Van LooFull details