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ArticleNature cancer2025

Prospective validation of ORACLE, a clonal expression biomarker associated with survival of patients with lung adenocarcinoma.

Dhruva Biswas, Yun-Hsin Liu, Javier Herrero, Yin Wu, David A Moore, Takahiro Karasaki, Kristiana Grigoriadis, Wei-Ting Lu, Selvaraju Veeriah, Cristina Naceur-Lombardelli and 27 more

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Article in Nature cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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37 authors.

Dhruva Biswas *Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK. dhruva.biswas@crick.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-9141-5188
Yun-Hsin Liu *Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0009-0001-1508-5276
Javier HerreroBill Lyons Informatics Centre, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7313-717X
Yin WuCentre for Inflammation Biology and Cancer Immunology, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4080-3935
David A MooreCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6296-1312
Takahiro KarasakiCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6863-2360
Kristiana GrigoriadisCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8435-0176
Wei-Ting LuCancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1405-4806
Selvaraju VeeriahCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.
Cristina Naceur-LombardelliCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7097-0307
Neil MagnoCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.
Sophia WardCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6777-5279
Alexander M FrankellCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0341-7878
Mark S HillCancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0718-8934
Emma ColliverCancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1497-0740
Sophie de Carné TrécessonOncogene Biology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9341-2586
Philip EastBioinformatics and Biostatistics, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5801-5713
Aman MalhiCancer Research UK and University College London Cancer Trials Centre, University College London, London, UK.
Daniel M SnellGenomics Science Technology Platform, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Olga O'NeillGenomics Science Technology Platform, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Daniel LeonceGenomics Science Technology Platform, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Johanna MattssonDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Amanda LindbergDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8206-5294
Patrick MickeDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Judit Moldvay1st Department of Pulmonology, National Koranyi Institute of Pulmonology, Budapest, Hungary.
Zsolt MegyesfalviNational Koranyi Institute of Pulmonology, Budapest, Hungary.
Balazs DomeNational Koranyi Institute of Pulmonology, Budapest, Hungary.
János FillingerNational Koranyi Institute of Pulmonology, Budapest, Hungary.
Jerome NicodGenomics Science Technology Platform, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2459-3480
Julian DownwardOncogene Biology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2331-4729
Zoltan SzallasiComputational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5395-7509
TRACERx Consortium
Allan HackshawCancer Research UK and University College London Cancer Trials Centre, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5570-5070
Mariam Jamal-HanjaniCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1212-1259
Nnennaya KanuCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7232-1952
Nicolai J BirkbakCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK. nbirkbak@clin.au.dk.ORCID 0000-0003-1613-9587
Charles SwantonCancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK. Charles.Swanton@crick.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-4299-3018

Funding

Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung) I4677Cancer Research UK CTUQQR-DEC22/100009Cancer Research UK (CRUK) C11496/A17786, C416/A21999Cancer Research UK (CRUK) EDDCPJT\100008Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutatóintézet (Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutatóintézet) Bolyai Research ScholarshipInternational Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Young Investigator GrantJapan Society for the Promotion of Science London (JSPS London) 202060447Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (NovoNordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research) ID16584University College London (UCL) UCL/12/0279Wellcome Trust CC2041Wellcome Trust (Wellcome) 220589/Z/20/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human tumors are diverse in their natural history and response to treatment, which in part results from genetic and transcriptomic heterogeneity. In clinical practice, single-site needle biopsies are used to sample this diversity, but cancer biomarkers may be confounded by spatiogenomic heterogeneity within individual tumors. Here we investigate clonally expressed genes as a solution to the sampling bias problem by analyzing multiregion whole-exome and RNA sequencing data for 450 tumor regions from 184 patients with lung adenocarcinoma in the TRACERx study. We prospectively validate the survival association of a clonal expression biomarker, Outcome Risk Associated Clonal Lung Expression (ORACLE), in combination with clinicopathological risk factors, and in stage I disease. We expand our mechanistic understanding, discovering that clonal transcriptional signals are detectable before tissue invasion, act as a molecular fingerprint for lethal metastatic clones and predict chemotherapy sensitivity. Lastly, we find that ORACLE summarizes the prognostic information encoded by genetic evolutionary measures, including chromosomal instability, as a concise 23-transcript assay.

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Adenocarcinoma of LungBiomarkers, TumorLung NeoplasmsAgedExome SequencingFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisProspective StudiesBiomarkers, Tumor

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