Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Multi-omics analysis reveals neoantigen-independent immune cell infiltration in copy-number driven cancers

  • Daniel J. McGrail,
  • Lorenzo Federico,
  • Yongsheng Li,
  • Hui Dai,
  • Yiling Lu,
  • Gordon B. Mills,
  • Song Yi,
  • Shiaw-Yih Lin,
  • Nidhi Sahni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03730-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Neoantigen load has been associated with tumour immune infiltration. Here, the authors show that while this is true for tumours with recurrent mutations, cancers with recurrent CNAs show neoantigen-independent infiltration driven by cytokine production downstream of the DNA damage sensor ATM.