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Title: | Sex differences in oncogenic mutational processes |
Author: | Li, Constance H. Prokopec, Stephenie D. Sun, Ren X. Yousif, Fouad Schmitz, Nathaniel PCAWG Tumour Subtypes Clinical Translation, Boutros, P.C. PCAWG Consortium Rabionet Janssen, Raquel López Guillermo, Armando Aymerich Gregorio, Marta Campo Güerri, Elias Gelpí Buchaca, Josep Lluís Martín-Subero, José Ignacio |
Keywords: | Càncer Estudis de gènere Cancer Gender studies |
Issue Date: | 1-Sep-2020 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Abstract: | Sex differences have been observed in multiple facets of cancer epidemiology, treatment and biology, and in most cancers outside the sex organs. Efforts to link these clinical differences to specific molecular features have focused on somatic mutations within the coding regions of the genome. Here we report a pan-cancer analysis of sex differences in whole genomes of 1983 tumours of 28 subtypes as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium. We both confirm the results of exome studies, and also uncover previously undescribed sex differences. These include sex-biases in coding and non-coding cancer drivers, mutation prevalence and strikingly, in mutational signatures related to underlying mutational processes. These results underline the pervasiveness of molecular sex differences and strengthen the call for increased consideration of sex in molecular cancer research. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17359-2 |
It is part of: | Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, p. 4330 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/175271 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17359-2 |
ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística) Articles publicats en revistes (Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular) |
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