Clone Phylogenetics Reveals Metastatic Tumor Migrations, Maps, and Models
Chroni A, Miura S, Hamilton L, Vu T, Gaffney SG, Aly V, Karim S, Sanderford M, Townsend JP, Kumar S. Clone Phylogenetics Reveals Metastatic Tumor Migrations, Maps, and Models. Cancers 2022, 14: 4326. PMID: 36077861, PMCID: PMC9454754, DOI: 10.3390/cancers14174326.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDynamic evolutionary historyMolecular phylogenetic analysisMolecular evolutionary analysisTumor cell migrationEvolutionary historyEvolutionary analysisPhylogenetic analysisDispersal routesCell migrationTumor evolutionTumor genetic heterogeneityGenetic heterogeneityMetastatic cellsClonesTumor migrationMigration historyGeneral patternPhylogeneticsFundamental questionsEvolution of metastasesMigrationEvolutionCellsHybridsVariationA phylogenetic approach to study the evolution of somatic mutational processes in cancer
Miura S, Vu T, Choi J, Townsend JP, Karim S, Kumar S. A phylogenetic approach to study the evolution of somatic mutational processes in cancer. Communications Biology 2022, 5: 617. PMID: 35732905, PMCID: PMC9217972, DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03560-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMutational processesPattern of conservationFalse-positive discovery rateCollection of mutationsSomatic mutational processesPhylogenetic approachGenomic variationSomatic variationCell lineagesMutational signaturesTumor evolutionMutation signaturesPhylogenyCancer cellsDiscovery rateMutationsComputer-simulated datasetsRelative activityLineagesComputational methodsSignaturesConservationDivergenceEvolutionJoint analysis