2019
Wagging the long tail of drivers of prostate cancer
Cannataro VL, Townsend JP. Wagging the long tail of drivers of prostate cancer. PLOS Genetics 2019, 15: e1007820. PMID: 30653503, PMCID: PMC6336235, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007820.Commentaries, Editorials and Letters
2016
Early and multiple origins of metastatic lineages within primary tumors
Zhao ZM, Zhao B, Bai Y, Iamarino A, Gaffney SG, Schlessinger J, Lifton RP, Rimm DL, Townsend JP. Early and multiple origins of metastatic lineages within primary tumors. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2016, 113: 2140-2145. PMID: 26858460, PMCID: PMC4776530, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525677113.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic lineagesGenetic changesEarly genetic divergenceMolecular evolutionary modelsSingle genetic changeDivergent lineagesTumor phylogeneticsDivergence timesAncestral stateGenetic divergenceCancer lineagesPhylogenetic analysisEvolutionary processesLineagesCancer evolutionMultiple originsDriver genesCancer biologyCancer progressionSomatic mutationsTumor developmentEvolutionary modelsDriver mutationsChronogramMutations
2015
Inferring the Origin of Metastases from Cancer Phylogenies
Hong WS, Shpak M, Townsend JP. Inferring the Origin of Metastases from Cancer Phylogenies. Cancer Research 2015, 75: 4021-4025. PMID: 26260528, PMCID: PMC4833389, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-15-1889.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsMeSH KeywordsCell LineageCell MovementClone CellsDNA, NeoplasmForecastingHumansMutationNeoplasm MetastasisSingle-Cell AnalysisConceptsComplete phylogenyEvolutionary historyPhylogeny-based testsFuture phylogenetic studiesMolecular evolutionary modelsMetastatic subclonesMonophyletic cladePhylogenetic reconstructionCancer lineagesPhylogenetic studiesNatural selectionPhylogenyCancer phylogeniesOrigin of metastasesCancer biologyMetastatic cascadeSubclonesTargeted sequencingEvolutionary modelsDriver mutationsUltra-deep sequencingSequencingRecent studiesMonophylyClade