Sottoriva, A;
Barnes, CP;
Graham, TA;
(2017)
Catch my drift? Making sense of genomic intra-tumour heterogeneity.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer
, 1867
(2)
pp. 95-100.
10.1016/j.bbcan.2016.12.003.
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Abstract
The cancer genome is shaped by three components of the evolutionary process: mutation, selection and drift. While many studies have focused on the first two components, the role of drift in cancer evolution has received little attention. Drift occurs when all individuals in the population have the same likelihood of producing surviving offspring, and so by definition a drifting population is one that is evolving neutrally. Here we focus on how neutral evolution is manifested in the cancer genome. We discuss how neutral passenger mutations provide a magnifying glass that reveals the evolutionary dynamics underpinning cancer development, and outline how statistical inference can be used to quantify these dynamics from sequencing data. We argue that only after we understand the impact of neutral drift on the genome can we begin to make full sense of clonal selection. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Evolutionary principles - heterogeneity in cancer? Edited by Dr. Robert A. Gatenby.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Catch my drift? Making sense of genomic intra-tumour heterogeneity |
| Location: | Netherlands |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bbcan.2016.12.003 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbcan.2016.12.003 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | Clonal evolution of cancer, Clones, Intra-tumour heterogeneity, Neutral evolution, Next generation sequencing, Selection |
| 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 Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Cell and Developmental Biology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1535843 |
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