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Differential clonal evolution in oesophageal cancers in response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy

Findlay, JM; Castro-Giner, F; Makino, S; Rayner, E; Kartsonaki, C; Cross, W; Kovac, M; ... Tomlinson, I; + view all (2016) Differential clonal evolution in oesophageal cancers in response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Nature Communications , 7 , Article 11111. 10.1038/ncomms11111. Green open access

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Abstract

How chemotherapy affects carcinoma genomes is largely unknown. Here we report whole-exome and deep sequencing of 30 paired oesophageal adenocarcinomas sampled before and after neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Most, but not all, good responders pass through genetic bottlenecks, a feature associated with higher mutation burden pre-treatment. Some poor responders pass through bottlenecks, but re-grow by the time of surgical resection, suggesting a missed therapeutic opportunity. Cancers often show major changes in driver mutation presence or frequency after treatment, owing to outgrowth persistence or loss of sub-clones, copy number changes, polyclonality and/or spatial genetic heterogeneity. Post-therapy mutation spectrum shifts are also common, particularly C>A and TT>CT changes in good responders or bottleneckers. Post-treatment samples may also acquire mutations in known cancer driver genes (for example, SF3B1, TAF1 and CCND2) that are absent from the paired pre-treatment sample. Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy can rapidly and profoundly affect the oesophageal adenocarcinoma genome. Monitoring molecular changes during treatment may be clinically useful.

Type: Article
Title: Differential clonal evolution in oesophageal cancers in response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11111
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11111
Language: English
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UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > Research Department of Pathology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1547283
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