Nature Genetics is the top genetics journal, publishing cancer genome-wide association studies, polygenic risk scores, cancer gene discovery and mutational-signature work.
Nature Genetics (Nat Genet) is the leading genetics journal, founded in 1992, appearing monthly and published by Springer Nature on a hybrid access model. It publishes germline cancer susceptibility genome-wide association studies and polygenic risk models, somatic driver-gene discovery and mutational-signature analyses, tumour evolution and single-cell genomics methods. Its readers are cancer geneticists and genomics researchers, and the Mutational signature entry in OnCo draws on the kind of work it publishes. Within OnCo it is linked from the biographies of Mu-Sheng Zeng, Malachi Griffith, Obi Griffith, Cheryl Willman, Christina Curtis and Rebecca Fitzgerald, and a reader would use it for cancer gene discovery, polygenic risk and mutational-signature papers.
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Lung cancer in never-smokers is not smokers' lung cancer with the smoking removed; it is a different set of diseases with a different clock. The slow-growing piano subtype in particular is the argument that a screening test aimed at never-smokers would need to look for something other than what low-dose computed tomography was built to find.
The evidence base for setting the age at which screening starts by risk rather than by birthday. It is also a warning: the same score performs differently across ancestries, so a risk model built and validated in European cohorts will under-serve the men at highest risk.
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It shows that the driver frequencies quoted in Western guidelines are population statistics rather than facts about the disease, which matters for how many patients anywhere are expected to benefit from a given medicine.
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It explains why single-sample classifiers disagree on about one tumour in eight and why KRAS allelic imbalance and GATA6 copy number are being read alongside expression.
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It is the quantitative answer to why prostate cancer has so few targeted therapies. The common events are not druggable, the druggable ones are individually rare, and no trial can be powered on a driver present in 2% of men without an international basket.
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One of the most cited papers Europe PMC returns for Anthony C. Nichols at Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre, so it is a natural starting point for reading their work. The record was linked automatically from the author list and affiliation; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
Encouraging for targeted therapy: unlike some cancers, the drivers do not differ between deposits, so one biopsy is enough to choose a RAS or repair-directed drug.
It is the empirical basis for treating the two histologies as separate diseases for targeted therapy and as one disease for immunotherapy, which is exactly how they are treated.
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The paper that separated the biliary tree into molecular subtypes: FGFR2 and IDH belong to the intrahepatic ducts, while gallbladder cancer carries HER2, ELF3 and an APOBEC signature. Its hypermutated, checkpoint-high poor-prognosis group foreshadowed immunotherapy.
It means a CMS4 call on a bulk sample partly measures how much stroma was in the block, which is both a caution for the classification and a pointer to the stroma as the thing to treat.
It made TGF-beta the central target of the microsatellite-stable half of the disease, which is the line that leads to Tauriello's immune-evasion work and to the TGF-beta plus checkpoint combinations in trials.
The classical versus basal-like split, later tied to GATA6 expression and to chemotherapy response, is the subtype scheme most likely to reach the clinic; the stromal subtypes are why the desmoplastic stroma is treated as a partner in the disease rather than inert scar.
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Loss of H3K27me3 immunostaining is now a diagnostic marker for MPNST, and PRC2 loss is a target for epigenetic and combination therapies under investigation.
This paper put HER-family signalling at the centre of gallbladder cancer biology a decade before HER2-directed drugs were approved for it, and it is why ERBB2 and ERBB3 sit near the top of every later panel study.
POLE and POLD1 are now on polyposis and colorectal germline panels, and the paper explains why a patient with many adenomas and an entirely normal mismatch repair panel still needs sequencing.
It established the fusion-negative side of the prostate cancer taxonomy and made SPOP the disease's signature point mutation, in a ubiquitin ligase adaptor rather than in a kinase, which is part of why prostate cancer has so few druggable drivers.
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EPCAM deletion testing is now part of Lynch syndrome panels, and it explains the MSH2-deficient tumours in families where sequencing of the four repair genes comes back clean.
It is the molecular definition of the serrated route and the reason BRAF V600E is used as a practical surrogate for sporadic rather than inherited MLH1 loss.
CRTC1-MAML2 fusion testing supports the diagnosis of mucoepidermoid carcinoma, particularly in difficult cases, and fusion-positive tumours tend to be lower grade with a better outlook.
COL1A1-PDGFB fusion testing confirms the diagnosis, and the fusion's dependence on PDGF receptor beta signalling is the rationale for imatinib.
The first evidence that resistance to hormone therapy in prostate cancer is an adaptation of the target rather than an escape from it, which is why the field kept building better androgen receptor drugs instead of abandoning the pathway.
SS18-SSX fusion testing confirms the diagnosis of synovial sarcoma, and the fusion's disruption of the BAF chromatin remodelling complex underlies experimental therapies such as BRD9 degraders; the tumour's MAGE-A4 and NY-ESO-1 expression enabled T-cell receptor therapy.
Canadian surgeon who led ORATOR, the first randomised trial to compare robotic surgery with radiotherapy for early throat cancer, which found swallowing was slightly better after radiotherapy.
Arto Mannermaa represents Kuopio University Hospital Cancer Center in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the centre among its members in Finland.
Geneticist known for work on the genetic drivers of childhood brain cancer who became Director and CEO of QIMR Berghofer, a leading Australian medical research institute, in 2026.
Cheryl Willman is a leukaemia genomics pioneer who leads Mayo Clinic's cancer centre across its three sites.
Showed that colorectal cancers grow as a 'Big Bang' and that metastasis can be seeded years before diagnosis.
Cambridge medical oncologist and Interim Deputy Director of the CRUK Cambridge Institute, a leader in ovarian cancer genomics and ctDNA monitoring.
Co-created CIViC, the open database of what cancer mutations mean, and the pVACtools neoantigen pipeline.
In 1990 she showed that a single gene on chromosome 17, BRCA1, causes inherited breast and ovarian cancer, when most of the field doubted such a gene existed. Genetic testing and risk-reducing care followed.
Human geneticist who directs the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a world centre for cancer genome research.
Pioneer of cancer genome sequencing and mutational signatures; led the Cancer Genome Project and formerly directed the Sanger Institute.
Virologist who mapped how Epstein-Barr virus drives nasopharyngeal cancer and is developing vaccines against it.
Obi Griffith co-leads CIViC and the open tooling that lets clinicians interpret tumour sequencing.
Invented the Cytosponge, a swallowable sponge-on-a-string that finds Barrett's oesophagus without endoscopy.
Rob Bristow represents The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the centre among its members in United Kingdom.
Breast surgical oncologist at Winship Cancer Institute and President-Elect of the Society of Surgical Oncology, known for research on lobular breast cancer and surgical de-escalation.
Genomicist who applies cell-free DNA and single-cell sequencing to track cancer and immunotherapy response.
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Lung cancer in never-smokers is not smokers' lung cancer with the smoking removed; it is a different set of diseases with a different clock. The slow-growing piano subtype in particular is the argument that a screening test aimed at never-smokers would need to look for something other than what low-dose computed tomography was built to find.
The evidence base for setting the age at which screening starts by risk rather than by birthday. It is also a warning: the same score performs differently across ancestries, so a risk model built and validated in European cohorts will under-serve the men at highest risk.
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It shows that the driver frequencies quoted in Western guidelines are population statistics rather than facts about the disease, which matters for how many patients anywhere are expected to benefit from a given medicine.
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It explains why single-sample classifiers disagree on about one tumour in eight and why KRAS allelic imbalance and GATA6 copy number are being read alongside expression.
Shares Hotspot activating PRKD1 somatic mutations in polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinomas of the salivary glands, Impaired H3K36 methylation defines a subset of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas.
Shares Christina Curtis, Limited heterogeneity of known driver gene mutations among the metastases of individual patients with pancreatic cancer, Exome sequencing identifies recurrent SPOP, FOXA1 and MED12 mutations in prostate cancer, Germline mutations affecting the proofreading domains of POLE and POLD1 predispose to colorectal adenomas and carcinomas.
Shares Genome doubling shapes the evolution and prognosis of advanced cancers, Transcription phenotypes of pancreatic cancer are driven by genomic events during tumor evolution.