Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Intratumoral heterogeneity and clonal evolution in liver cancer

  • Bojan Losic,
  • Amanda J. Craig,
  • Carlos Villacorta-Martin,
  • Sebastiao N. Martins-Filho,
  • Nicholas Akers,
  • Xintong Chen,
  • Mehmet E. Ahsen,
  • Johann von Felden,
  • Ismail Labgaa,
  • Delia DʹAvola,
  • Kimaada Allette,
  • Sergio A. Lira,
  • Glaucia C. Furtado,
  • Teresa Garcia-Lezana,
  • Paula Restrepo,
  • Ashley Stueck,
  • Stephen C. Ward,
  • Maria I. Fiel,
  • Spiros P. Hiotis,
  • Ganesh Gunasekaran,
  • Daniela Sia,
  • Eric E. Schadt,
  • Robert Sebra,
  • Myron Schwartz,
  • Josep M. Llovet,
  • Swan Thung,
  • Gustavo Stolovitzky,
  • Augusto Villanueva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14050-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Immune-mediated selection pressures impact the clonal evolution of tumours. Here, in hepatocellular carcinoma the authors map spatio-temporal interactions between tumor and immune cells, highlighting the regulatory substrate of intra-tumoural heterogeneity that correlates with regional adaptive immune responses.