Abstract
Recent findings from a prospective clinical study involving multiregion whole-exome sequencing suggest that driver mutations in cancer-relevant genes including EGFR and TP53 are often clonal and precede whole-genome duplication events in early lung carcinogenesis. This paves an expressway to extensive subclonal diversification, elevated intratumoral heterogeneity, and dismal disease outcome.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 491-492 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Trends in Genetics |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- aneuploidy
- APOBEC
- chromosomal instability
- non-small cell lung carcinoma
- p53
- tetraploidy