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• Barcoding reveals complex clonal dynamics of de novo transformed human mammary cells

  Most human breast cancers have already diversified genomically when they first become clinically evident, by which time extensive heterogeneous histopathologies, transcriptomes and growth patterns are also apparent. Accordingly, important initial events and the cellular context in which they occur have been difficult to characterize. Using DNA barcoding, we now demonstrate the high efficiency with which both purified basal and luminal cells isolated directly from normal adult human mammary tissue can be rapidly transformed by a single oncogene (KRASG12D) resulting in the production within 8 weeks in vivo of serially transplantable, polyclonal, invasive ductal carcinomas that are phenotypically heterogeneous and transcriptionally distinct from the initial cells transduced. Barcoding also revealed a consistent dramatic change in the clonal content of passaged tumours. This system thus provides a powerful new platform for examining early events in the genesis, evolution and treatment response of malignant human mammary cells generated using defined mutations.

  Study EGAS00001001310

• Precursor_lesions__clonal_architecture_and_relapse_in_Wilms_nephroblastoma

  Targeted resequencing at high depth (21 genes, 9 chromosomal regions): at least 4 FFPE samples per case and matched germline DNA: •100 cases with detailed outcome data, including 15 cases with tumour relapse (515 samples)•40 cases with matched pre-chemotherapy biopsies (240 samples)•50 nephrogenic rests matched to above cases (50 samples)We expect a proportion (possibly 10%) of cases to be mutationally silent on the above studies, and propose to subsequently carry out integrated whole-genome, methylome and transcriptome studies on matched frozen tissue from these cases

  Study EGAS00001001422

• Whole genome and transcriptome analysis of medullary thyroid cancer

  Medullary thyroid cancer is the neoplasm of the calcitonin-producing parafollicular cells of the thyroid gland. The hormone calcitonin acts to lower the blood calcium level, counteracting the effects of the parathyroid hormone; it can also serve as a biomarker for the presence or recurrence of medullary thyroid cancer. Surgery is the only curative treatment for this cancer. Targeted therapeutics vandetanib and cabozantinib are approved for the treatment of aggressive and metastatic tumors that are not amenable to surgery. The use of these multikinase inhibitors are supported by the observed overactivation of the RET oncoprotein in a large sub-population of medullary thyroid cancers; however, not all patients carry oncogenic alterations of this kinase. Hence, there is a need for molecular characterization of medullary tumors on the genomic scale with the aim of identifying targetable mutations. Here, we describe the genomic profiles of two medullary thyroid cancers and report the presence of a putative oncogenic BRAF fusion in one. Such alterations previously observed in other malignancies and known targets of available drugs, can benefit patients who currently have no therapy options.

  Study EGAS00001001473

• GILD_ExomeSeq_PTNHL

  This study is meant to gain further knowledge in haematological cancers. Patients samples (mainly DNAs or PCR products) from haematolocical cancer patients will be sequenced, and the outputs will be correlated to their diagnosis and/or prognosis; the findings may also add more insight into the understanding of biology in this type of tumour. We will be sequencing Primary Testicular Lymphomas (PTL) to identify genetic drivers of this rare cancer

  Study EGAS00001001613

• Clonal_expansion_of_mutated_cell_population_in_bladder_urothelium_

  1cm biospies of from patients undergoing bladder cystectomy will be collected. The underlying muscle and stroma will be removed and the remaining epithelia dissected into small sequential areas which will be sent for ultra-deep exome sequencing using a panel of known cancer and viral genes. Sequence analysis using similar methods to Martincorena I et al (Science 2015, 348:880) will provide an idea of the somatic mutational landscape in these patient samples. Individual patient muscle samples will also be sequenced as a reference.

  Study EGAS00001001687

• ENU_NCI_H508_cetuximab_fixed_concentration_project

  Cetuximab is a targeted monoclonal antibody against the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) which is used therapeutically for the treatment of KRAS wild-type colorectal cancer (CRC). The Cetuximab sensitive KRAS wild-type CRC cell line NCI-H508 has been treated with a fixed concentration of ENU for 24 hours and then selected with Cetuximab until drug resistant clones were ready to be picked and grown up as sub-clones of the parental cell line. These will have genes causally implicated in cancer sequenced to identify common point mutations in multiple independently derived drug resistant clones as a forward genetic screen for mechanisms of resistance to Cetuximab in CRC

  Study EGAS00001001744

• WTCCC case-control study for Breast cancer

  WTCCC genome-wide case-control association study for Breast cancer (BC) using the 1958 British Birth Cohort collection as controls.

  Study EGAS00000000024

• WTCCC case-control study for Breast cancer - Combined Controls

  WTCCC genome-wide case-control association study for Breast cancer (BC) - Combined Controls.

  Study EGAS00000000025

• Mutational evolution in a lobular breast tumour profiled at single nucleotide resolution

  We have used next generation sequencing to sequence genomes (>43-fold coverage) and transcriptomes of an oestrogen-receptor-alpha-positive metastatic lobular breast cancer at depth. We found 32 somatic non-synonymous coding mutations present in the metastasis, and measured the frequency of these somatic mutations in DNA from the primary tumour of the same patient.

  Study EGAS00000000054

• Complex Landscapes of Somatic Rearrangements in Human Breast Cancer Genomes

  We have used massively parallel paired end sequencing strategies to reconstruct the genomic landscape of 24 breast cancer genomes, through the identification and characterization of 2166 somatically acquired genomic rearrangements. These studies have revealed considerable complexity in the patterns of structural variation, identified novel fusion genes and unveiled new insights into the complex structure of amplicons.

  Study EGAS00000000062