Timothy T. Harkins

TL;DR: The ability of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to detect tumors in 640 patients with various cancer types was evaluated and suggested that ctDNA is a broadly applicable, sensitive, and specific biomarker that can be used for a variety of clinical and research purposes.

TL;DR: It is shown that understanding the biology and therapeutic responses of patients with TNBC will require the determination of individual tumour clonal genotypes, and for the first time in an epithelial tumour subtype, the relative abundance of clonal frequencies among cases representative of the population is determined.

TL;DR: High-throughput and massive paired-end mapping (PEM) was used to map SVs in an African and in a putatively European individual and identified shared and divergent SVs relative to the reference genome, documenting that the number of SVs among humans is much larger than initially hypothesized; many of the SVs potentially affect gene function.

TL;DR: 25 spatially distinct regions from seven operable NSCLCs were sequenced and found evidence of branched evolution, with driver mutations arising before and after subclonal diversification, and pronounced intratumor heterogeneity in copy number alterations, translocations, and mutations associated with APOBEC cytidine deaminase activity.

TL;DR: It is found that none of the extant wolf lineages from putative domestication centers is more closely related to dogs, and, instead, the sampled wolves form a sister monophyletic clade, suggesting that a re-evaluation of past hypotheses regarding dog origins is necessary.