Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Pathway signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens predict response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma

  • Kuang Du,
  • Shiyou Wei,
  • Zhi Wei,
  • Dennie T. Frederick,
  • Benchun Miao,
  • Tabea Moll,
  • Tian Tian,
  • Eric Sugarman,
  • Dmitry I. Gabrilovich,
  • Ryan J. Sullivan,
  • Lunxu Liu,
  • Keith T. Flaherty,
  • Genevieve M. Boland,
  • Meenhard Herlyn,
  • Gao Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26299-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Gene signatures that predict response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies in melanoma have been based on preclinical models and pre-treatment samples. Here the authors develop pathway-based signatures to predict ICB response in melanoma using on-treatment samples, leading to improved performance.