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ArticleGenome biology2025

Evaluating topography of mutational signatures with SigProfilerTopography.

Burçak Otlu, Ludmil B Alexandrov

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Article in Genome biology, 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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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Divergent somatic mutation patterns among human cerebellar neuron types.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  11. The mutagenic forces shaping the genomic landscape of lung cancer in never smokers.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Burçak OtluDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
Ludmil B AlexandrovDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. L2alexandrov@health.ucsd.edu.

Funding

Detecting Mutational Signatures of Environmental Mutagens in Heathy Individuals for Personalized Cancer PreventionR01ES032547 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ALEXANDROV, LUDMIL B · 2021 to 2025
$3.4M
Mapping immuno-genomic drivers of the head and neck precancer invasive-disease transitionU01CA290479 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Ludmil B Alexandrov, Jorge Silvio Gutkind · 2023 to 2026
$3.1M
Mutational Signatures of a Combined Environmental Exposure: Arsenic and Ultraviolet RadiationR01ES030993 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI HUDSON, LAURIE G, LIU, KE JIAN · 2020 to 2024
$2.5M
Comprehensive identification of germline-somatic interactionsR01CA269919 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Ludmil B Alexandrov, Hannah Kathryn Carter · 2022 to 2026
$2.2M
Cancer Research UK C98/A24032David and Lucile Packard Foundation EngineeringDavid and Lucile Packard Foundation Packard Fellowship for ScienceNCI NIH HHS R01 CA269919NCI NIH HHS R01CA269919-01NCI NIH HHS U01 CA290479NCI NIH HHS U01CA290479-01NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES030993NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES030993-01A1NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES032547NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES032547-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mutations found in a cancer genome are shaped by diverse processes, each displaying a characteristic mutational signature that may be influenced by the genome's architecture. While prior analyses have evaluated the effect of topographical genomic features on mutational signatures, there has been no computational tool that can comprehensively examine this interplay. Here, we present SigProfilerTopography, a Python package that allows evaluating the effect of chromatin organization, histone modifications, transcription factor binding, DNA replication, and DNA transcription on the activities of different mutational processes. SigProfilerTopography elucidates the unique topographical characteristics of mutational signatures, unveiling their underlying biological and molecular mechanisms.

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Computational BiologyMutationNeoplasmsSoftwareChromatinDNA ReplicationGenomicsHistone CodeHumansTranscription FactorsTranscription, GeneticChromatinTranscription FactorsGenome topographyMutational signaturesSomatic mutations

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PMID40394581
PMCPMC12093824

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