Nature Communications (May 2020)

Genetic and epigenetic intratumor heterogeneity impacts prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma

  • Xing Hua,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Angela C. Pesatori,
  • Dario Consonni,
  • Neil E. Caporaso,
  • Tongwu Zhang,
  • Bin Zhu,
  • Mingyi Wang,
  • Kristine Jones,
  • Belynda Hicks,
  • Lei Song,
  • Joshua Sampson,
  • David C. Wedge,
  • Jianxin Shi,
  • Maria Teresa Landi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16295-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Many tumors are known to be heterogeneous. Here, the authors examined multiple samples from 84 patients with lung adenocarcinoma and demonstrate that the intratumor heterogeneity of methylation and copy number associates with poor prognosis.