Tumor evolutionary directed graphs and the history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

نویسندگان

  • Jiguang Wang
  • Hossein Khiabanian
  • Davide Rossi
  • Giulia Fabbri
  • Valter Gattei
  • Francesco Forconi
  • Luca Laurenti
  • Roberto Marasca
  • Giovanni Del Poeta
  • Robin Foà
  • Laura Pasqualucci
  • Gianluca Gaidano
  • Raul Rabadan
چکیده

Cancer is a clonal evolutionary process, caused by successive accumulation of genetic alterations providing milestones of tumor initiation, progression, dissemination, and/or resistance to certain therapeutic regimes. To unravel these milestones we propose a framework, tumor evolutionary directed graphs (TEDG), which is able to characterize the history of genetic alterations by integrating longitudinal and cross-sectional genomic data. We applied TEDG to a chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cohort of 70 patients spanning 12 years and show that: (a) the evolution of CLL follows a time-ordered process represented as a global flow in TEDG that proceeds from initiating events to late events; (b) there are two distinct and mutually exclusive evolutionary paths of CLL evolution; (c) higher fitness clones are present in later stages of the disease, indicating a progressive clonal replacement with more aggressive clones. Our results suggest that TEDG may constitute an effective framework to recapitulate the evolutionary history of tumors.

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دوره 3  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2014