Somatic mutation patterns and compound response in cancers

Somatic mutation patterns and compound response in cancers

The use of various cancer cell lines can recapitulate known tumor-associated mutations and genetically define cancer subsets. This approach also enables comparative surveys of associations between cancer mutations and drug responses. Here, we analyzed the effects of ~40,000 compounds on cancer cell lines that showed diverse mutation-dependent sensitivity profiles. Over 1,000 compounds exhibited...

Registered report: Diverse somatic mutation patterns and pathway alterations in human cancers

The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology seeks to address growing concerns about reproducibility in scientific research by conducting replications of selected experiments from a number of high-profile papers in the field of cancer biology. The papers, which were published between 2010 and 2012, were selected on the basis of citations and Altmetric scores (Errington et al., 2014). This Regist...

Somatic mutation patterns in non-lymphoid cancers resemble the strand biased somatic hypermutation spectra of antibody genes.

Author ' s response to reviews Title : Patterns and processes of somatic mutations in nine major cancers

Rare somatic mutation of pro-apoptotic BAX and BAK genes in common human cancers.

AIMS AND BACKGROUND BAX and BAK are both pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins and are essential for the pathway of intrinsic apoptosis. Apoptosis in cancer cells is frequently inactivated by somatic mutations. The aim of the study was to see whether somatic mutations of BAX and BAK genes are characteristics of common human cancers. METHODS We analyzed somatic mutation of BAX and BAK genes in 47 gastr...