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ArticleClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2017

Mutational Signatures in Breast Cancer: The Problem at the DNA Level.

Serena Nik-Zainal, Sandro Morganella

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Article in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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79citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 137 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Clinical Implications of APOBEC3-Mediated Mutagenesis in Breast Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2023
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  20. RNA-Based Classification of Homologous Recombination Deficiency in Racially Diverse Patients with Breast Cancer.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Serena Nik-ZainalWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom. snz@sanger.ac.uk.
Sandro MorganellaWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · GBWellcome Sanger Institute · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 22932Cancer Research UK 23433Cancer Research UK 23916Wellcome Trust 100183
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A breast cancer genome is a record of the historic mutagenic activity that has occurred throughout the development of the tumor. Indeed, every mutation may be informative. Although driver mutations were the main focus of cancer research for a long time, passenger mutational signatures, the imprints of DNA damage and DNA repair processes that have been operative during tumorigenesis, are also biologically illuminating. This review is a chronicle of how the concept of mutational signatures arose and brings the reader up-to-date on this field, particularly in breast cancer. Mutational signatures have now been advanced to include mutational processes that involve rearrangements, and novel cancer biological insights have been gained through studying these in great detail. Furthermore, there are efforts to take this field into the clinical sphere. If validated, mutational signatures could thus form an additional weapon in the arsenal of cancer precision diagnostics and therapeutic stratification in the modern war against cancer.

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TranscriptomeBreast NeoplasmsDNA DamageDNA RepairFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGenome, HumanHumansMutation

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PMID28572256
PMCPMC5458139
OpenAlexW2621170119

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