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Thompson CL, Alberti M, Barve S, Battistuzzi FU, Drake JL, Goncalves GC, Govaert L, Partridge C, Yang Y. Back to the future: Reintegrating biology to understand how past eco-evolutionary change can predict future outcomes. Integr Comp Biol 2021; 61:2218-2232. [PMID: 33964141 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icab068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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During the last few decades, biologists have made remarkable progress in understanding the fundamental processes that shape life. But despite the unprecedented level of knowledge now available, large gaps still remain in our understanding of the complex interplay of eco-evolutionary mechanisms across scales of life. Rapidly changing environments on Earth provide a pressing need to understand the potential implications of eco-evolutionary dynamics, which can be achieved by improving existing eco-evolutionary models and fostering convergence among the sub-fields of biology. We propose a new, data-driven approach that harnesses our knowledge of the functioning of biological systems to expand current conceptual frameworks and develop corresponding models that can more accurately represent and predict future eco-evolutionary outcomes. We suggest a roadmap toward achieving this goal. This long-term vision will move biology in a direction that can wield these predictive models for scientific applications that benefit humanity and increase the resilience of natural biological systems. We identify short, medium, and long-term key objectives to connect our current state of knowledge to this long-term vision, iteratively progressing across three stages: 1) utilizing knowledge of biological systems to better inform eco-evolutionary models, 2) generating models with more accurate predictions, and 3) applying predictive models to benefit the biosphere. Within each stage, we outline avenues of investigation and scientific applications related to the timescales over which evolution occurs, the parameter space of eco-evolutionary processes, and the dynamic interactions between these mechanisms. The ability to accurately model, monitor, and anticipate eco-evolutionary changes would be transformational to humanity's interaction with the global environment, providing novel tools to benefit human health, protect the natural world, and manage our planet's biosphere.
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- Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington,
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- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History,
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles,
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich; Department of Aquatic Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, URPP Global Change and Biodiversity, University of Zurich,
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota,
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Dentro SC, Leshchiner I, Haase K, Tarabichi M, Wintersinger J, Deshwar AG, Yu K, Rubanova Y, Macintyre G, Demeulemeester J, Vázquez-García I, Kleinheinz K, Livitz DG, Malikic S, Donmez N, Sengupta S, Anur P, Jolly C, Cmero M, Rosebrock D, Schumacher SE, Fan Y, Fittall M, Drews RM, Yao X, Watkins TBK, Lee J, Schlesner M, Zhu H, Adams DJ, McGranahan N, Swanton C, Getz G, Boutros PC, Imielinski M, Beroukhim R, Sahinalp SC, Ji Y, Peifer M, Martincorena I, Markowetz F, Mustonen V, Yuan K, Gerstung M, Spellman PT, Wang W, Morris QD, Wedge DC, Van Loo P. Characterizing genetic intra-tumor heterogeneity across 2,658 human cancer genomes. Cell 2021; 184:2239-2254.e39. [PMID: 33831375 PMCID: PMC8054914 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 226] [Impact Index Per Article: 75.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2020] [Revised: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Intra-tumor heterogeneity (ITH) is a mechanism of therapeutic resistance and therefore an important clinical challenge. However, the extent, origin, and drivers of ITH across cancer types are poorly understood. To address this, we extensively characterize ITH across whole-genome sequences of 2,658 cancer samples spanning 38 cancer types. Nearly all informative samples (95.1%) contain evidence of distinct subclonal expansions with frequent branching relationships between subclones. We observe positive selection of subclonal driver mutations across most cancer types and identify cancer type-specific subclonal patterns of driver gene mutations, fusions, structural variants, and copy number alterations as well as dynamic changes in mutational processes between subclonal expansions. Our results underline the importance of ITH and its drivers in tumor evolution and provide a pan-cancer resource of comprehensively annotated subclonal events from whole-genome sequencing data.
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- Stefan C Dentro
- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK; Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
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- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada; Vector Institute, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada; Vector Institute, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada; Vector Institute, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK; Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK; University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; Computational Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cancer Data Science Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada; Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, BC V6H 3Z6, Canada
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- Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97231, USA
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- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; Walter + Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; New York Genome Center, New York, NY 10013, USA
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- Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London WC1E 6BT, UK; Cancer Genome Evolution Research Group, University College London Cancer Institute, London WC1E 6DD, UK
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- Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK; Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London WC1E 6BT, UK; Department of Medical Oncology, University College London Hospitals, London NW1 2BU, UK
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA; Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pathology, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada; Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON M5G 0A3, Canada; University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; New York Genome Center, New York, NY 10013, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Cancer Data Science Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL 60201, USA; The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Translational Genomics, Center for Integrated Oncology Cologne-Bonn, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Department of Computer Science, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK; School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97231, USA
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada; Vector Institute, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada; Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON M5G 0A3, Canada; Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK; Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford OX4 2PG, UK; Manchester Cancer Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester M20 4GJ, UK
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- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK.
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Ruscito I, Gasparri ML, De Marco MP, Costanzi F, Besharat AR, Papadia A, Kuehn T, Gentilini OD, Bellati F, Caserta D. The Clinical and Pathological Profile of BRCA1 Gene Methylated Breast Cancer Women: A Meta-Analysis. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13061391. [PMID: 33808555 PMCID: PMC8003261 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13061391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2021] [Revised: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND DNA aberrant hypermethylation is the major cause of transcriptional silencing of the breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) gene in sporadic breast cancer patients. The aim of the present meta-analysis was to analyze all available studies reporting clinical characteristics of BRCA1 gene hypermethylated breast cancer in women, and to pool the results to provide a unique clinical profile of this cancer population. METHODS On September 2020, a systematic literature search was performed. Data were retrieved from PubMed, MEDLINE, and Scopus by searching the terms: "BRCA*" AND "methyl*" AND "breast". All studies evaluating the association between BRCA1 methylation status and breast cancer patients' clinicopathological features were considered for inclusion. RESULTS 465 studies were retrieved. Thirty (6.4%) studies including 3985 patients met all selection criteria. The pooled analysis data revealed a significant correlation between BRCA1 gene hypermethylation and advanced breast cancer disease stage (OR = 0.75: 95% CI: 0.58-0.97; p = 0.03, fixed effects model), lymph nodes involvement (OR = 1.22: 95% CI: 1.01-1.48; p = 0.04, fixed effects model), and pre-menopausal status (OR = 1.34: 95% CI: 1.08-1.66; p = 0.008, fixed effects model). No association could be found between BRCA1 hypermethylation and tumor histology (OR = 0.78: 95% CI: 0.59-1.03; p = 0.08, fixed effects model), tumor grading (OR = 0.78: 95% CI :0.46-1.32; p = 0.36, fixed effects model), and breast cancer molecular classification (OR = 1.59: 95% CI: 0.68-3.72; p = 0.29, random effects model). CONCLUSIONS hypermethylation of the BRCA1 gene significantly correlates with advanced breast cancer disease, lymph nodes involvement, and pre-menopausal cancer onset.
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- Ilary Ruscito
- Gynecology Division, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy; (M.P.D.M.); (F.C.); (A.R.B.); (F.B.); (D.C.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +39-06-3377-5696
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ente Ospedaliere Cantonale (EOC), Via Tesserete 46, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland; (M.L.G.); (A.P.)
- University of the Italian Switzerland (USI), Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland
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- Gynecology Division, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy; (M.P.D.M.); (F.C.); (A.R.B.); (F.B.); (D.C.)
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- Gynecology Division, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy; (M.P.D.M.); (F.C.); (A.R.B.); (F.B.); (D.C.)
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- Gynecology Division, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy; (M.P.D.M.); (F.C.); (A.R.B.); (F.B.); (D.C.)
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ente Ospedaliere Cantonale (EOC), Via Tesserete 46, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland; (M.L.G.); (A.P.)
- University of the Italian Switzerland (USI), Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland
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- Interdisciplinary Breast Center, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Klinikum Esslingen, 73730 Neckar, Germany;
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- Breast Surgery Unit, San Raffaele University Hospital, via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy;
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- Gynecology Division, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy; (M.P.D.M.); (F.C.); (A.R.B.); (F.B.); (D.C.)
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- Gynecology Division, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy; (M.P.D.M.); (F.C.); (A.R.B.); (F.B.); (D.C.)
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