ReviewTrends in cancer2025
Extrachromosomal DNA: shaping the evolutionary dynamics of cancer.
Review in Trends in cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Extrachromosomal DNA as a platform for epigenetic reprogramming in cancer.Molecular cancer · 2026Review
- The shared evolutionary capacities of plasmids and extrachromosomal DNA.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
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- Integrating single-cell and bulk transcriptomes to reveal prognostic and immunological features of ecDNA-related genes in osteosarcoma.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2026Article
- Extrachromosomal DNA in Solid Tumors-Landscape, Immune Effects, and Resistance to Targeted Therapy.Oncology research · 2026Review
- ecPICK: A deep learning-enabled spatial diagnostic platform for direct ecDNA identification and clinical prognosis across pan-cancer histopathology.Theranostics · 2026Article
- Computational Spatial Modeling of Extrachromosomal DNA to Decipher Cancer Evolution.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Article
- The maintenance and de-mixing of extrachromosomal DNA variants in single cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Cancers are complex, diverse, and elusive, with extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) recently emerging as a crucial player in driving the evolution of about 20% of all tumors. In this review we discuss open questions concerning the evolutionary role of ecDNA in tumor development, including tumorigenesis and metastatic seeding, the mutational landscape on ecDNA, the dynamic ecDNA genotype-phenotype map, the structural evolution of ecDNA, and how knowledge of tissue-specific ecDNA evolutionary paths can be leveraged to deliver more effective clinical treatment. Looking forward, evolutionary theoretical modeling will be instrumental in advancing new research in the field, and we explore how modeling has contributed to our understanding of the evolutionary principles governing ecDNA dynamics. Ultimately, these challenges must be tackled to improve clinical stratification and create tumor- and patient-specific ecDNA-based therapies.
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