Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

A temporal shift of the evolutionary principle shaping intratumor heterogeneity in colorectal cancer

  • Tomoko Saito,
  • Atsushi Niida,
  • Ryutaro Uchi,
  • Hidenari Hirata,
  • Hisateru Komatsu,
  • Shotaro Sakimura,
  • Shuto Hayashi,
  • Sho Nambara,
  • Yosuke Kuroda,
  • Shuhei Ito,
  • Hidetoshi Eguchi,
  • Takaaki Masuda,
  • Keishi Sugimachi,
  • Taro Tobo,
  • Haruto Nishida,
  • Tsutomu Daa,
  • Kenichi Chiba,
  • Yuichi Shiraishi,
  • Tetsuichi Yoshizato,
  • Masaaki Kodama,
  • Tadayoshi Okimoto,
  • Kazuhiro Mizukami,
  • Ryo Ogawa,
  • Kazuhisa Okamoto,
  • Mitsutaka Shuto,
  • Kensuke Fukuda,
  • Yusuke Matsui,
  • Teppei Shimamura,
  • Takanori Hasegawa,
  • Yuichiro Doki,
  • Satoshi Nagayama,
  • Kazutaka Yamada,
  • Mamoru Kato,
  • Tatsuhiro Shibata,
  • Masaki Mori,
  • Hiroyuki Aburatani,
  • Kazunari Murakami,
  • Yutaka Suzuki,
  • Seishi Ogawa,
  • Satoru Miyano,
  • Koshi Mimori

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05226-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Advanced colorectal cancers are characterised by intra-tumour heterogeneity dictated by neutral evolution. Here the authors analyse early colorectal tumours by whole-exome sequencing and find that Darwinian evolution determines the fate of early lesions in colorectal adenoma and carcinoma in situ.