A phylogenetic approach to study the evolution of somatic mutational processes in cancer

A method, PhyloSignare, is presented to infer mutational signatures along a tumour evolutionary tree and is used to analyse somatic genomic variations in 61 lung cancer patients, providing insights into tumour evolution.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sayaka Miura, Tracy Vu, Jiyeong Choi, Jeffrey P. Townsend, Sajjad Karim, Sudhir Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03560-0