Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

DNA copy number changes define spatial patterns of heterogeneity in colorectal cancer

  • Soulafa Mamlouk,
  • Liam Harold Childs,
  • Daniela Aust,
  • Daniel Heim,
  • Friederike Melching,
  • Cristiano Oliveira,
  • Thomas Wolf,
  • Pawel Durek,
  • Dirk Schumacher,
  • Hendrik Bläker,
  • Moritz von Winterfeld,
  • Bastian Gastl,
  • Kerstin Möhr,
  • Andrea Menne,
  • Silke Zeugner,
  • Torben Redmer,
  • Dido Lenze,
  • Sascha Tierling,
  • Markus Möbs,
  • Wilko Weichert,
  • Gunnar Folprecht,
  • Eric Blanc,
  • Dieter Beule,
  • Reinhold Schäfer,
  • Markus Morkel,
  • Frederick Klauschen,
  • Ulf Leser,
  • Christine Sers

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14093
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The contribution of intra-tumour heterogeneity is increasingly associated with resistance to therapy. Here, the authors use genomic analyses to study heterogeneity in colorectal cancer and perform in-depth reconstruction of heterogeneity in one sample.