Rosalind A. Eeles

TL;DR: Treatment with the PARP inhibitor olaparib in patients whose prostate cancers were no longer responding to standard treatments and who had defects in DNA-repair genes led to a high response rate.

TL;DR: The flagship paper of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium describes the generation of the integrative analyses of 2,658 whole-cancer genomes and their matching normal tissues across 38 tumour types, the structures for international data sharing and standardized analyses, and the main scientific findings from across the consortium studies.

TL;DR: This work developed REVEL (rare exome variant ensemble learner), an ensemble method for predicting the pathogenicity of missense variants on the basis of individual tools: MutPred, FATHMM, VEST, PolyPhen, SIFT, PROVEAN, MutationAssessor, LRT, GERP, SiPhy, phyloP, and phastCons.

TL;DR: Among a cohort of women with BRCa1 and BRCA2 mutations, the use of risk-reducing mastectomy was associated with a lower risk of breast cancer, first diagnosis of breastcancer, all-cause mortality, breast cancer-specific mortality, and ovarian cancer- specific mortality.

TL;DR: The frequency of germline mutations in DNA-repair genes among men with metastatic prostate cancer significantly exceeded the prevalence of 4.6% among 499 men with localized prostate cancer and 2.7% in the Exome Aggregation Consortium, which includes 53,105 persons without a known cancer diagnosis.