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Tumour heterogeneity and metastasis at single-cell resolution.

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Recent advances in single-cell technologies are reviewed and discussed in detail how they can be leveraged to understand tumour heterogeneity and metastasis.
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Tumours comprise a heterogeneous collection of cells with distinct genetic and phenotypic properties that can differentially promote progression, metastasis and drug resistance. Emerging single-cell technologies provide a new opportunity to profile individual cells within tumours and investigate what roles they play in these processes. This Review discusses key technological considerations for single-cell studies in cancer, new findings using single-cell technologies and critical open questions for future applications.

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SF-010-4 Distant metastasis occurs late during the genetic evolution of pancreatic cancer

TL;DR: A quantitative analysis of the timing of the genetic evolution of pancreatic cancer was performed, indicating at least a decade between the occurrence of the initiating mutation and the birth of the parental, non-metastatic founder cell.
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Molecular principles of metastasis: a hallmark of cancer revisited

TL;DR: The authors explore the recent advancements in the field of metastasis and highlight the latest insights that contribute to shaping this hallmark of cancer.
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Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

David Lähnemann, +71 more
- 07 Feb 2020 - 
TL;DR: This compendium is for established researchers, newcomers, and students alike, highlighting interesting and rewarding problems for the coming years in single-cell data science.
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A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes.

TL;DR: This Review provides a brief historical perspective of the role of cancer genes before presenting the Integrative OncoGenomics (IntOGen) platform, a bioinformatics method of mutational driver identification, which is beginning to reveal the compendium of driver genes across many tumour types as well as alluding to their tumorigenic mechanisms.
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Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

Ludmil B. Alexandrov, +84 more
- 22 Aug 2013 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that hypermutation localized to small genomic regions, ‘kataegis’, is found in many cancer types, and this results reveal the diversity of mutational processes underlying the development of cancer.
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Cancer Genome Landscapes

TL;DR: This work has revealed the genomic landscapes of common forms of human cancer, which consists of a small number of “mountains” (genes altered in a high percentage of tumors) and a much larger number of "hills" (Genes altered infrequently).
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