Genomic alterations underlie a pan-cancer metabolic shift associated with tumour hypoxia

Altered metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. However, the role of genomic changes in metabolic genes driving the tumour metabolic shift remains to be elucidated. Here, we have investigated the genomic and transcriptomic changes underlying this shift across ten different cancer types. A systematic pan...

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Veröffentlicht in:Genome Biology 2016-06, Vol.17 (1), p.140-140, Article 140
Hauptverfasser: Haider, Syed, McIntyre, Alan, van Stiphout, Ruud G P M, Winchester, Laura M, Wigfield, Simon, Harris, Adrian L, Buffa, Francesca M
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Zusammenfassung:Altered metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. However, the role of genomic changes in metabolic genes driving the tumour metabolic shift remains to be elucidated. Here, we have investigated the genomic and transcriptomic changes underlying this shift across ten different cancer types. A systematic pan-cancer analysis of 6538 tumour/normal samples covering ten major cancer types identified a core metabolic signature of 44 genes that exhibit high frequency somatic copy number gains/amplifications (>20 % cases) associated with increased mRNA expression (ρ > 0.3, q 
ISSN:1474-760X
1474-7596
1474-760X
DOI:10.1186/s13059-016-0999-8