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• High response rate to anti PD-1 therapy in desmoplastic melanoma

  Desmoplastic melanoma (DM) is a rare subtype of melanoma characterized by dense fibrous stroma, resistance to chemotherapy and a lack of actionable driver mutations, but is highly associated with ultraviolet light DNA damage. We analysed 60 patients with advanced DM treated with programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) or PD-1 ligand (PD-L1) blocking antibody therapy. Objective tumor responses were observed in 42 of the 60 patients (70%, 95% confidence interval 57-81%), including 19 patients (32% overall) with a complete response. Whole-exome sequencing revealed a high mutational load and frequent NF-1 mutations (14 out of 17 cases). Immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis from 19 DM and 13 non-DM revealed a higher percentage of PD-L1 positive cells in the tumor parenchyma in DM (p = 0.04), highly associated with increased CD8 density and PD-L1 expression in the tumor invasive margin. Therefore, patients with advanced DM derive significant clinical benefit from PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint blockade therapy despite being a cancer defined by its dense desmoplastic fibrous stroma. The benefit is likely derived from the high mutational burden and a frequent pre-existing adaptive immune response limited by PD-L1 expression.

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• Single cell RNA-seq reveals malignant and stromal programs associated with metastasis in head and neck cancer

  This study of head and neck cancer aimed to profile individual malignant, stromal, and immune cells in treatment-naive oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma, with or without matched metastatic cervical lymph nodes. Clinical and pathologic information was collected on all patients, in addition to a fresh biopsy sample from the primary tumor and/or metastatic lymph node at the time of initial surgery. Biopsy specimens were processed for single cell RNA-seq and/or whole exome sequencing. A total of ~6,000 single cells from 18 participants were included in the final dataset.

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• Genetics of Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in N08C1 and N08CB

  Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common and potentially dose-limiting toxicity of chemotherapy treatment. CIPN severity varies widely between cancer patients, and previous studies had found evidence of genes and single nucleotide variants (SNV) being associated with CIPN. The goal of this study was to further identify genetic markers and pathways associated with CIPN severity using whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) of participants in two clinical studies which collected longitudinal patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures of CIPN. NCCTG/Alliance study N08C1 was a prospective cohort study of the natural history of paclitaxel-associated acute pain syndrome (P-APS) and CIPN. NCCTG/Alliance trial N08CB was a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of calcium and magnesium for prevention of oxaliplatin-induced sensory neuropathy in which the treatment had no significant effect on either acute pain or sensory neuropathy. Both N08C1 and N08CB collected patient assessments of CIPN symptoms before each cycle of chemotherapy using the EORTC QLQ-CIPN20 instrument. For this study, CIPN cases were selected from each of N08C1 and N08CB as those patients with the most severe CIPN symptoms (assessed longitudinally). CIPN controls were selected as those with the least severe symptoms. WGS was obtained for N08C1 samples (WES had been obtained and analyzed previously), and WES was obtained for N08CB samples.

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• Etiological Investigation of Cancer Susceptibility in Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes: A Natural History Study

  Background: A prospective cohort of Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome (IBMFS) will provide new information regarding cancer rates and types in these disorders. Mutations in IBMFS genes are relevant to carcinogenesis in sporadic cancers. Patients with IBMFS who develop cancer differ in their genetic and/or environmental features from patients with IBMFS who do not develop cancer. These cancer-prone families are well suited for cancer screening and prevention trials targeting those at increased genetic risk of cancer. Carriers of IBMFS gene mutations are at increased risk of cancer. The prototype disorder is Fanconi Anemia (FA); other IBMFS will also be studied. Objectives: To determine the types and incidence of specific cancers in patients with an IBMFS. To investigate the relevance of IBMFS gene mutations in the carcinogenesis pathway of the sporadic counterparts of IBMFS-associated cancers. To identify risk factors for IBMFS-related cancers in addition to the primary germline mutations. To determine the risk of cancer in IBMFS carriers. Design: Natural history study, with questionnaires, clinical evaluations, clinical and research laboratory tests, review of medical records, cancer surveillance. Primary endpoints are all cancers, solid tumors, and cancers specific to each type of IBMFS. Secondary endpoints are markers of pre-malignant conditions, such as leukoplakia, serum or tissue evidence of carcinogenic viruses, and bone marrow morphologic myelodyplastic syndrome or cytogenetic clones.

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• Discovery, Biology, and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) - germline whole genome sequencing

  This study consists of whole genome sequencing (target: average 30x coverage) of 110 European-ancestry (EA), early-onset, family-history-positive breast cancer cases, 21 Asian cases, 25 African-American cases, and 24 controls from six studies participating in the Discovery, Biology, and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) consortium, part of the NCI's Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME-ON) initiative ( http://epi.grants.cancer.gov/gameon/ )

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• NCI Cancer Model Development for the Human Cancer Model Initiative (HCMI)

  The Cancer Model Development Center (CMDC) project is part of the Human Cancer Model Initiative (HCMI) and is managed by the Office of Cancer Genomics within the Center for Cancer Genomics at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The goal of the HCMI is to generate approximately 1000 novel human "next generation" tumor-derived models as a community resource. The models aim to faithfully recapitulate the cellular complexity and heterogeneity of human tumors. The CMDCs are tasked by the NCI with producing a proportion of the cancer models. Wellcome Sanger Institute (WSI) is a contributing member of the HCMI. Models developed by HCMI are being derived from a number of tumor types and subtypes (see below), including rare adult, pediatric and understudied cancers. The number of models and the clinical sites from which patient samples are acquired is increasing. Normal tissue, originating tumor, and tumor-derived models are sequenced. The next generation cancer models are associated with rich clinical and genomic data through the NCI Genomic Data Commons for all researchers to advance cancer research. The CMDC and HCMI models will serve as excellent tools in research to provide insight into the pathways that influence tumor growth and progression, how tumors respond to therapy, etc. Ultimately, the data generated using these models will support the development of personalized oncology. There is a delay between registered IDs and model availability. The current model count is found in The HCMI Searchable Catalog which is updated when new models are available for distribution to the research community.

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• Genomic Characterization CS-MATCH-0007 Arm I

  The CS-MATCH-0007 protocol is part of a collaboration between the Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG) and the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD) to perform whole-exome sequencing and RNA sequencing using pre-and post-treatment tumor biopsy specimens from patients enrolled on a treatment arm of the NCI-MATCH Clinical Trial (EAY131). The goal of this study is to identify the molecular basis for response and resistance to targeted therapies that are matched to specific genomic alterations found in their cancers. Arm I is one of the treatment sub-protocols within the NCI-MATCH Clinical Trial (EAY131) where patients with PIK3CA mutations (without KRAS Mutation or PTEN Loss) are treated with Taselisib. This subprotocol is one of the treatment arms included in the CS-MATCH-0007 protocol and will provide specimens for the program including DNA from tumor tissue and whole blood.

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• Genomic Predictors of Response to Immune Checkpoint Therapy

  Immune checkpoint therapies, including monoclonal antibodies to programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic % lymphocyte associated protein-4 (CTLA-4), yield durable clinical responses across many tumor types, including metastatic melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, predictors of response to these therapies in RCC are still unknown. Genomic characterization of large clinical cohorts of patients treated with anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 agents in melanoma and NSCLC have suggested that high mutational burden, high neoantigen burden, and high expression of certain genes in pre-treatment tumors may be associated with patient response to these therapies. In this study, we sought to investigate genomic predictors of response to anti-PD1 therapy in metastatic RCC in two independent clinical cohorts using whole exome and whole transcriptome sequencing.

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• Transdisciplinary Studies of Genetic Variation in Colorectal Cancer(CORECT): Meta-analysis

  This study is part 2 of 2 for Schumacher et al, Nat Communication. 2015 Jul 7;6:7138. Part 2 is the pooled meta-analysis of 29 different studies of 37,955 European (18,299 Cases/19,656 Controls) participants using eight different genotyping platforms/variations. table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } Study Name Participants Platform CFR-1 2976 Illumina 1M, 1M Duo, Omni1 CFR-2 3053 Affymetrix Axiom MECC 1 982 Illumina Omni 2.5 MECC2 1940 Affymetrix Axiom Kentucky 2172 Affymetrix Axiom ACS/CAPII 1086 Affymetrix Axiom Melbourne 1008 Affymetrix Axiom Newfoundland 672 Affymetrix Axiom ASTERKSI 1895 Illumina 300K COLO23 212 Illumina 300K DACHS1 3417 Illumina 300K DACHS2 1173 Illumina OmniExpress DALS1 1416 Illumina 550k/610K DALS2 874 Illumina 300K HPFS1 457 Illumina OmniExpress HPFS2 348 Illumina OmniExpress HPFS AA 658 Illumina OmniExpress MEC 674 Illumina 300K NHS1 1168 Illumina OmniExpress NHS2 340 Illumina OmniExpress NHSAA 1091 Illumina OmniExpress OFCCR 1172 Affymetrix 100k/500K PHS 771 Illumina OmniExpress PMH 402 Illumina 300K PLCO1 2509 Illumina 550k/610K PLCO2 901 Illumina 300K VITAL 573 Illumina 300K WHI1 1999 Illumina 550k/610K WHI2 573 Illumina 300K Since this study is a meta-analysis no corresponding phenotype, pedigree, sample, subjects, or primary molecular data are available. Each contributing study/platform will have fulfilled its own DBGAP submission commitment. This DBGAP entry is for European participants in the the pooled meta-analysis exclusively.

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• National Cancer Institute (NCI) Primary Human Melanocyte QTL Study

  In order to create a melanocyte-specific QTL resource, we obtained primary human melanocyte cultures isolated from foreskin of 106 healthy newborn males predominantly of European descent. Melanocytes were cultured in lot-matched culture medium in randomized batches to minimize variability that could be introduced by culturing conditions. RNA sequencing and direct SNP genotyping of these samples produced an average of ~87.9 million reads (paired-end, stranded, 126bps), and ~713,000 SNP genotypes, respectively. Illumina 450K methylation array covered over 485,000 CpGs distributed genome wide.

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