Communications Biology (Apr 2021)

Genomic landscape of extraordinary responses in metastatic breast cancer

  • Sun Min Lim,
  • Eunyoung Kim,
  • Kyung Hae Jung,
  • Sora Kim,
  • Ja Seung Koo,
  • Seung Il Kim,
  • Seho Park,
  • Hyung Seok Park,
  • Byoung Woo Park,
  • Young Up Cho,
  • Ji Ye Kim,
  • Soonmyung Paik,
  • Nak-Jung Kwon,
  • Gun Min Kim,
  • Ji Hyoung Kim,
  • Min Hwan Kim,
  • Min Kyung Jeon,
  • Sangwoo Kim,
  • Joohyuk Sohn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01973-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Lim, Kim and Jung et al. report a whole-exome sequence analysis of 30 Korean patients showing extreme treatment responses for metastatic breast cancer. They find that compared to non-responders, extreme responders have fewer nonsynonymous mutations and copy number variants.