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Somatic evolution following cancer treatment in normal tissue

Nature, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09792-4

High-depth sequencing of non-cancerous tissue from patients with metastatic cancer reveals single-base mutational signatures of alcohol, smoking and cancer treatments, and reveals how exogenous factors, including cancer therapies, affect somatic cell evolution.
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Clone copy number diversity is linked to survival in lung cancer

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09398-w

A study presents ALPACA, a computational method for inferring clone- and allele-specific copy numbers of individual clones from multi-sample bulk DNA-sequencing data, and demonstrates its use to study metastasis trajectories.
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Genomic–transcriptomic evolution in lung cancer and metastasis

Nature, Published online: 12 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05706-4

Computational and machine-learning approaches that integrate genomic and transcriptomic variation from paired primary and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer samples from the TRACERx cohort reveal the role of transcriptional events in tumour evolution.
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