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Trial reportCell reports. Medicine2020

Integrative Tumor and Immune Cell Multi-omic Analyses Predict Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Melanoma.

Valsamo Anagnostou, Daniel C Bruhm, Noushin Niknafs, James R White, Xiaoshan M Shao, John William Sidhom, Julie Stein, Hua-Ling Tsai, Hao Wang, Zineb Belcaid and 14 more

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Cell reports. Medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Network analysis-guided drug repurposing: IGF1R as a novel melanoma target and therapeutic potential of dapagliflozin.Daru : journal of Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences · 2026
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  10. Interferon Epsilon Loss Is Elusive 9p21 Link to Immune-Cold Tumors, Resistant to Immune Checkpoint Therapy, and Endogenous CXCL9/10 Induction.Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2025
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  11. Of Context, Quality, and Complexity: Fine-Combing Tumor Mutational Burden in Immunotherapy-Treated Cancers.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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  13. Cell Death Modalities in Therapy of Melanoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Valsamo AnagnostouThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Daniel C BruhmThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Noushin NiknafsThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
James R WhiteThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Xiaoshan M ShaoThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
John William SidhomThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Julie SteinThe Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Hua-Ling TsaiThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Hao WangThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Zineb BelcaidThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Joseph MurrayThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Archana BalanThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Leonardo FerreiraThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Petra Ross-MacdonaldBristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
Megan Wind-RotoloBristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
Alexander S BarasThe Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Janis TaubeThe Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Rachel KarchinThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Robert B ScharpfThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Catherine GrassoJonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Antoni RibasJonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Drew M PardollThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Suzanne L TopalianThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Victor E VelculescuThe Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Bloomberg (United States) · USJohns Hopkins University · USBristol-Myers Squibb (United States) · USCedars-Sinai Medical Center · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Translational Research Central ServicesP30CA006973 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAM George NELSON · 1985 to 2026
$208.6M
Project 3: Modeling and overcoming resistance to melanoma immunotherapyP01CA244118 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MORICEAU, GATIEN P · 2020 to 2024
$12.8M
Next Generation Cancer Immunotherapies to Defeat MelanomaR35CA197633 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ANTONI RIBAS · 2015 to 2026
$10.4M
PD-1/PD-L1 modulation in cancer therapyR01CA142779 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI PARDOLL, DREW M., TAUBE, JANIS M · 2010 to 2025
$8.2M
ECOG-ACRIN Thoracic Malignancies Integrated Translational Science CenterUG1CA233259 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI CARBONE, DAVID P., LEAL, TICIANA · 2019 to 2025
$5.1M
Large-Scale Genetic Analyses of Human CancerR01CA121113 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ANAGNOSTOU, VALSAMO, VELCULESCU, VICTOR E. · 2006 to 2022
$4.3M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA244118NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006973NCI NIH HHS R01 CA121113NCI NIH HHS R01 CA142779NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197633NCI NIH HHS UG1 CA233259
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we incorporate analyses of genome-wide sequence and structural alterations with pre- and on-therapy transcriptomic and T cell repertoire features in immunotherapy-naive melanoma patients treated with immune checkpoint blockade. Although tumor mutation burden is associated with improved treatment response, the mutation frequency in expressed genes is superior in predicting outcome. Increased T cell density in baseline tumors and dynamic changes in regression or expansion of the T cell repertoire during therapy distinguish responders from non-responders. Transcriptome analyses reveal an increased abundance of B cell subsets in tumors from responders and patterns of molecular response related to expressed mutation elimination or retention that reflect clinical outcome. High-dimensional genomic, transcriptomic, and immune repertoire data were integrated into a multi-modal predictor of response. These findings identify genomic and transcriptomic characteristics of tumors and immune cells that predict response to immune checkpoint blockade and highlight the importance of pre-existing T and B cell immunity in therapeutic outcomes.

Indexed as

B-LymphocytesGene ExpressionGene Expression ProfilingGenomicsHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunotherapyMelanomaMutationProspective StudiesT-LymphocytesTranscription, GeneticTranscriptomeImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorscancer genomicsimmune checkpoint blockadeintegrative predictive modelmelanomamulti-omicsT cell repertoire

Identifiers

PMID33294860
PMCPMC7691441
OpenAlexW3100266437

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