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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2020

Immunogenicity and Immune Silence in Human Cancer.

Mark Yarmarkovich, Alvin Farrel, Artemio Sison, Moreno di Marco, Pichai Raman, Joshua L Parris, Dimitrios Monos, Hongzhe Lee, Stefan Stevanovic, John M Maris

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mark YarmarkovichDivision of Oncology and Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Alvin FarrelDivision of Oncology and Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Artemio SisonDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Moreno di MarcoDepartment of Immunology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Pichai RamanDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Joshua L ParrisPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Dimitrios MonosPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Hongzhe LeePerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Stefan StevanovicDepartment of Immunology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
John M MarisDivision of Oncology and Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · USUniversity of Tübingen · DE

Funding

Understanding and Overcoming Resistance to Immunotherapies in Childhood CancersU54CA232568 · NCI · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI MACKALL, CRYSTAL, MARIS, JOHN M · 2018 to 2022
$13.1M
Discovering mechanisms of neuroblastoma tumorigenesis to improve patient outcomesR35CA220500 · NCI · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI JOHN M MARIS · 2017 to 2026
$8.7M
NCI NIH HHS R35 CA220500NCI NIH HHS U54 CA232568
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite recent advances in cancer immunotherapy, the process of immunoediting early in tumorigenesis remains obscure. Here, we employ a mathematical model that utilizes the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data to elucidate the contribution of individual mutations and HLA alleles to the immunoediting process. We find that common cancer mutations including BRAF-V600E and KRAS-G12D are predicted to bind none of the common HLA alleles, and are thus "immunogenically silent" in the human population. We identify regions of proteins that are not presented by HLA at a population scale, coinciding with frequently mutated hotspots in cancer, and other protein regions broadly presented across the population in which few mutations occur. We also find that 9/29 common HLA alleles contribute disproportionately to the immunoediting of early oncogenic mutations. These data provide insights into immune evasion of common driver mutations and a molecular basis for the association of particular HLA genotypes with cancer susceptibility.

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AllelesCarcinogenesisCell Transformation, NeoplasticHLA AntigensHumansImmunogenicity, VaccineImmunotherapyMutationNeoplasmsHLA AntigensBRAFcancer susceptibilityHLAimmune evasionimmunoeditingKRASneoantigensTP53

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PMID32256484
PMCPMC7092187
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