Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

A pan-cancer analysis of PBAF complex mutations and their association with immunotherapy response

  • A. Ari Hakimi,
  • Kyrollis Attalla,
  • Renzo G. DiNatale,
  • Irina Ostrovnaya,
  • Jessica Flynn,
  • Kyle A. Blum,
  • Yasser Ged,
  • Douglas Hoen,
  • Sviatoslav M. Kendall,
  • Ed Reznik,
  • Anita Bowman,
  • Jason Hwee,
  • Christopher J. Fong,
  • Fengshen Kuo,
  • Martin H. Voss,
  • Timothy A. Chan,
  • Robert J. Motzer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17965-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The clinical benefit from immunotherapy response in patients with mutations of genes forming the chromatin remodelling complex PBAF remains controversial. Here the authors show that PBAF complex mutations are not associated with favourable response in pan-cancer cohorts of patients treated with immune-checkpoint blockade.