Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Genomic signatures reveal DNA damage response deficiency in colorectal cancer brain metastases

  • Jing Sun,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Lingyan Xu,
  • Weijia Fang,
  • Yuping Zhu,
  • Yi Zheng,
  • Xiaofeng Chen,
  • Xiju Xie,
  • Xinhua Hu,
  • Weidong Hu,
  • Jingyu Zheng,
  • Ping Li,
  • Jian Yu,
  • Zhu Mei,
  • Xiaomin Cai,
  • Biao Wang,
  • Zhibin Hu,
  • Yongqian Shu,
  • Hongbing Shen,
  • Yanhong Gu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10987-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The development of brain metastases is a lethal yet poorly understood event in the evolution of many cancers. Here, the authors perform whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing on matched normal, primary and metastatic tissue samples to explore the genomic features of brain metastases in colorectal cancer.