Nature Communications (May 2022)

Alterations in homologous recombination repair genes in prostate cancer brain metastases

  • Antonio Rodriguez-Calero,
  • John Gallon,
  • Dilara Akhoundova,
  • Sina Maletti,
  • Alison Ferguson,
  • Joanna Cyrta,
  • Ursula Amstutz,
  • Andrea Garofoli,
  • Viola Paradiso,
  • Scott A. Tomlins,
  • Ekkehard Hewer,
  • Vera Genitsch,
  • Achim Fleischmann,
  • Erik Vassella,
  • Elisabeth J. Rushing,
  • Rainer Grobholz,
  • Ingeborg Fischer,
  • Wolfram Jochum,
  • Gieri Cathomas,
  • Adeboye O. Osunkoya,
  • Lukas Bubendorf,
  • Holger Moch,
  • George Thalmann,
  • Charlotte K. Y. Ng,
  • Silke Gillessen,
  • Salvatore Piscuoglio,
  • Mark A. Rubin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30003-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The diagnosis of prostate cancer brain metastasis (PCBM) has increased. Here, the authors investigate the landscape of somatic genetic alterations in brain metastases in a PCBM cohort of 51 patients with non-synchronous matched primary samples available for 20 patients.