Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Simultaneous evolutionary expansion and constraint of genomic heterogeneity in multifocal lung cancer

  • Pengfei Ma,
  • Yujie Fu,
  • Mei-Chun Cai,
  • Ying Yan,
  • Ying Jing,
  • Shengzhe Zhang,
  • Minjiang Chen,
  • Jie Wu,
  • Ying Shen,
  • Liang Zhu,
  • Hong-Zhuan Chen,
  • Wei-Qiang Gao,
  • Mengzhao Wang,
  • Zhenyu Gu,
  • Trever G. Bivona,
  • Xiaojing Zhao,
  • Guanglei Zhuang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00963-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Across cancer types tumor heterogeneity has been observed, but how this relates to tumor evolution is unclear. Here, the authors sequence multiple synchronous lung cancers, highlighting the evolutionary pressures that simultaneously shape the expansion and constraint of genomic heterogeneity.