TY - JOUR
T1 - Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
AU - The ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium
AU - Campbell, Peter J.
AU - Getz, Gad
AU - Korbel, Jan O.
AU - Stuart, Joshua M.
AU - Jennings, Jennifer L.
AU - Stein, Lincoln D.
AU - Perry, Marc D.
AU - Nahal-Bose, Hardeep K.
AU - Ouellette, B. F.Francis
AU - Li, Constance H.
AU - Rheinbay, Esther
AU - Nielsen, G. Petur
AU - Sgroi, Dennis C.
AU - Wu, Chin Lee
AU - Faquin, William C.
AU - Deshpande, Vikram
AU - Boutros, Paul C.
AU - Lazar, Alexander J.
AU - Hoadley, Katherine A.
AU - Louis, David N.
AU - Dursi, L. Jonathan
AU - Yung, Christina K.
AU - Bailey, Matthew H.
AU - Saksena, Gordon
AU - Raine, Keiran M.
AU - Buchhalter, Ivo
AU - Kleinheinz, Kortine
AU - Schlesner, Matthias
AU - Zhang, Junjun
AU - Wang, Wenyi
AU - Wheeler, David A.
AU - Ding, Li
AU - Simpson, Jared T.
AU - O’Connor, Brian D.
AU - Yakneen, Sergei
AU - Ellrott, Kyle
AU - Miyoshi, Naoki
AU - Butler, Adam P.
AU - Royo, Romina
AU - Shorser, Solomon I.
AU - Vazquez, Miguel
AU - Rausch, Tobias
AU - Tiao, Grace
AU - Waszak, Sebastian M.
AU - Rodriguez-Martin, Bernardo
AU - Shringarpure, Suyash
AU - Wu, Dai Ying
AU - Demidov, German M.
AU - Shriver, Craig
AU - Wilkerson, Matthew D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020/2/6
Y1 - 2020/2/6
N2 - Cancer is driven by genetic change, and the advent of massively parallel sequencing has enabled systematic documentation of this variation at the whole-genome scale1–3. Here we report the integrative analysis of 2,658 whole-cancer genomes and their matching normal tissues across 38 tumour types from the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). We describe the generation of the PCAWG resource, facilitated by international data sharing using compute clouds. On average, cancer genomes contained 4–5 driver mutations when combining coding and non-coding genomic elements; however, in around 5% of cases no drivers were identified, suggesting that cancer driver discovery is not yet complete. Chromothripsis, in which many clustered structural variants arise in a single catastrophic event, is frequently an early event in tumour evolution; in acral melanoma, for example, these events precede most somatic point mutations and affect several cancer-associated genes simultaneously. Cancers with abnormal telomere maintenance often originate from tissues with low replicative activity and show several mechanisms of preventing telomere attrition to critical levels. Common and rare germline variants affect patterns of somatic mutation, including point mutations, structural variants and somatic retrotransposition. A collection of papers from the PCAWG Consortium describes non-coding mutations that drive cancer beyond those in the TERT promoter4; identifies new signatures of mutational processes that cause base substitutions, small insertions and deletions and structural variation5,6; analyses timings and patterns of tumour evolution7; describes the diverse transcriptional consequences of somatic mutation on splicing, expression levels, fusion genes and promoter activity8,9; and evaluates a range of more-specialized features of cancer genomes8,10–18.
AB - Cancer is driven by genetic change, and the advent of massively parallel sequencing has enabled systematic documentation of this variation at the whole-genome scale1–3. Here we report the integrative analysis of 2,658 whole-cancer genomes and their matching normal tissues across 38 tumour types from the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). We describe the generation of the PCAWG resource, facilitated by international data sharing using compute clouds. On average, cancer genomes contained 4–5 driver mutations when combining coding and non-coding genomic elements; however, in around 5% of cases no drivers were identified, suggesting that cancer driver discovery is not yet complete. Chromothripsis, in which many clustered structural variants arise in a single catastrophic event, is frequently an early event in tumour evolution; in acral melanoma, for example, these events precede most somatic point mutations and affect several cancer-associated genes simultaneously. Cancers with abnormal telomere maintenance often originate from tissues with low replicative activity and show several mechanisms of preventing telomere attrition to critical levels. Common and rare germline variants affect patterns of somatic mutation, including point mutations, structural variants and somatic retrotransposition. A collection of papers from the PCAWG Consortium describes non-coding mutations that drive cancer beyond those in the TERT promoter4; identifies new signatures of mutational processes that cause base substitutions, small insertions and deletions and structural variation5,6; analyses timings and patterns of tumour evolution7; describes the diverse transcriptional consequences of somatic mutation on splicing, expression levels, fusion genes and promoter activity8,9; and evaluates a range of more-specialized features of cancer genomes8,10–18.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41586-020-1969-6
DO - 10.1038/s41586-020-1969-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 32025007
AN - SCOPUS:85079038817
SN - 0028-0836
VL - 578
SP - 82
EP - 93
JO - Nature
JF - Nature
IS - 7793
ER -