Young Seok Ju

TL;DR: This analysis of all classes of somatic mutation across exons, introns and intergenic regions highlights the repertoire of cancer genes and mutational processes operative, and progresses towards a comprehensive account of the somatic genetic basis of breast cancer.

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: The results are consistent with the proposition that smoking increases cancer risk by increasing the somatic mutation load, although direct evidence for this mechanism is lacking in some smoking-related cancer types.

TL;DR: To understand the subclonal structure of primary breast cancer, whole-genome and targeted sequencing was applied to multiple samples from each of 50 patients' tumors, finding thatLandmarks of disease progression arose within detectable subclones of antecedent lesions.

TL;DR: The first large scale RNA sequencing study of lung adenocarcinoma is presented, demonstrating its power to identify somatic point mutations as well as transcriptional variants such as gene fusions, alternative splicing events, and expression outliers.