Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Tumor evolutionary trajectories during the acquisition of invasiveness in early stage lung adenocarcinoma

  • Siwei Wang,
  • Mulong Du,
  • Jingyuan Zhang,
  • Weizhang Xu,
  • Qianyu Yuan,
  • Ming Li,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Hongyu Zhu,
  • Yuzhuo Wang,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Yuhua Gong,
  • Xiaonan Wang,
  • Zhibin Hu,
  • David C. Christiani,
  • Lin Xu,
  • Hongbing Shen,
  • Rong Yin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19855-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Invasive early stage lung adenocarcinoma has a heterogeneous prognosis. Here, the authors microdissect malignant pulmonary nodules to invasive and preinvasive components and study the mutations that are common or private between the lesions, allowing them to understand the evolutionary path of the tumours.