Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Whole genome sequencing puts forward hypotheses on metastasis evolution and therapy in colorectal cancer

  • Naveed Ishaque,
  • Mohammed L. Abba,
  • Christine Hauser,
  • Nitin Patil,
  • Nagarajan Paramasivam,
  • Daniel Huebschmann,
  • Jörg Hendrik Leupold,
  • Gnana Prakash Balasubramanian,
  • Kortine Kleinheinz,
  • Umut H. Toprak,
  • Barbara Hutter,
  • Axel Benner,
  • Anna Shavinskaya,
  • Chan Zhou,
  • Zuguang Gu,
  • Jules Kerssemakers,
  • Alexander Marx,
  • Marcin Moniuszko,
  • Miroslaw Kozlowski,
  • Joanna Reszec,
  • Jacek Niklinski,
  • Jürgen Eils,
  • Matthias Schlesner,
  • Roland Eils,
  • Benedikt Brors,
  • Heike Allgayer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07041-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The evolution and genetic nature of metastatic lesions is not completely characterized. Here the authors perform a comprehensive whole-genome study of colorectal metastases in comparison to matched primary tumors and define a multistage progression model and metastasis-specific changes that, in part, are therapeutically actionable.