Yotam Drier

TL;DR: A fundamental problem with cancer genome studies is described: as the sample size increases, the list of putatively significant genes produced by current analytical methods burgeons into the hundreds and the list includes many implausible genes, suggesting extensive false-positive findings that overshadow true driver events.

TL;DR: The massively parallel sequencing of 38 tumour genomes and their comparison to matched normal DNAs indicates that cancer genome sequencing of large collections of samples will yield new insights into cancer not anticipated by existing knowledge.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the complete sequence of seven primary human prostate cancers and their paired normal counterparts and revealed previously unknown balanced rearrangements, at which multiple intra-and inter-chromosomal loci exchange their breakpoint arms without any loss of genetic material.

TL;DR: In this paper, the genesis of genomic rearrangements, including abundant DNA translocations and deletions that arise in a highly interdependent manner, was modeled and shown to induce considerable genomic derangement over relatively few events in prostate cancer and other neoplasms, supporting a model of punctuated cancer evolution.

TL;DR: In this paper, a massively parallel sequencing of 38 tumour genomes and their comparison to matched normal DNAs was reported, and several new and unexpected oncogenic mechanisms were suggested by the pattern of somatic mutation across the data set.