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ReviewGenes & development2025

Genetics and biology of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Haoqiang Ying, Alec C Kimmelman, Nabeel Bardeesy, Raghu Kalluri, Anirban Maitra, Ronald A DePinho

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Review in Genes & development, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Haoqiang YingDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA; rdepinho@mdanderson.org hying@mdanderson.org.
Alec C KimmelmanPerlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA.
Nabeel BardeesyMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Raghu KalluriGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2190-547X
Anirban MaitraGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Ronald A DePinhoGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA; rdepinho@mdanderson.org hying@mdanderson.org.

Funding

The RAS and P13K Pathways in Pancreatic AdenocarcinomaP01CA117969 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI KALLURI, RAGHU · 2006 to 2025
$41.7M
Tissue and Pathology ResourcesP50CA127003 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI SHIVDASANI, RAMESH A · 2007 to 2023
$33.2M
Tumor Microenvironment Crosstalk Drives Early Lesions in Pancreatic CancerU54CA274371 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Elana Fertig · 2022 to 2026
$9.5M
Functions of the LKB1 tumor suppressor in control in metabolism and epigenticsR01CA215498 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI EL-BARDEESY, NABEEL · 2018 to 2022
$2.7M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA117969NCI NIH HHS P50 CA127003NCI NIH HHS R01 CA215498NCI NIH HHS U54 CA274371
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) poses a grim prognosis for patients. Recent multidisciplinary research efforts have provided critical insights into its genetics and tumor biology, creating the foundation for rational development of targeted and immune therapies. Here, we review the PDAC genomic landscape and the role of specific oncogenic events in tumor initiation and progression, as well as their contributions to shaping its tumor biology. We further summarize and synthesize breakthroughs in single-cell and metabolic profiling technologies that have illuminated the complex cellular composition and heterotypic interactions of the PDAC tumor microenvironment, with an emphasis on metabolic cross-talk across cancer and stromal cells that sustains anabolic growth and suppresses tumor immunity. These conceptual advances have generated novel immunotherapy regimens, particularly cancer vaccines, which are now in clinical testing. We also highlight the advent of KRAS targeted therapy, a milestone advance that has transformed treatment paradigms and offers a platform for combined immunotherapy and targeted strategies. This review provides a perspective summarizing current scientific and therapeutic challenges as well as practice-changing opportunities for the PDAC field at this major inflection point.

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Carcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalPancreatic NeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsHumansImmunotherapycancer-associated fibroblastimmune regulationkraspancreatic cancertargeted therapytumor heterogeneitytumor microenvironment

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PMID39510840
PMCPMC11789498

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