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ArticleCancer discovery2025

Implementing Mutational Epidemiology on a Global Scale: Lessons from Mutographs.

Michael R Stratton, Laura Humphreys, Ludmil B Alexandrov, Allan Balmain, Paul Brennan, Peter J Campbell, David H Phillips

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Article in Cancer discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Michael R StrattonCancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-6035-153X
Laura HumphreysCancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.ORCID 0009-0008-6697-8091
Ludmil B AlexandrovDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California.ORCID 0000-0003-3596-4515
Allan BalmainHelen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.ORCID 0000-0001-6549-7861
Paul BrennanGenetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0518-8714
Peter J CampbellCancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3921-0510
David H PhillipsDepartment of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8509-3485

Funding

PROMINENT - UCSFOT2CA278665 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ALLAN BALMAIN · 2022 to 2026
$8.9M
Systems genetics analysis of tumor evolution in the mouseR35CA210018 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ALLAN BALMAIN · 2017 to 2026
$8.0M
NCI NIH HHS OT2 CA278665NCI NIH HHS R35 CA210018World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Mutographs Cancer Grand Challenge team aimed to discover unknown causes of cancer through mutational epidemiology, an alliance of cancer epidemiology and somatic genomics. By generating whole-genome sequences from thousands of cancers and normal tissues from more than 30 countries on five continents, it discovered unsuspected mutagenic exposures affecting millions of people, raised the possibility that some carcinogens act by altering forces of selection in tissue microenvironments rather than by mutagenesis, and demonstrated changes to the direction of somatic evolution in normal cells of the human body in response to exogenous exposures and noncancer diseases. See related article by Bressan et al., p. 16 See related article by Bhattacharjee et al., p. 28 See related article by Goodwin et al., p. 34.

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MutationNeoplasmsGenomicsHumans

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PMID39801236
PMCPMC13539406

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