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Elsevier BV, 2019

DOI: 10.17863/cam.39480

Cell Press, Cell Reports, 9(27), p. 2690-2708.e10, 2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.04.098

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The Genomic and Immune Landscapes of Lethal Metastatic Breast Cancer

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Abstract

The detailed molecular characterization of lethal cancers is a prerequisite to understanding resistance to therapy and escape from cancer immunoediting. We performed extensive multi-platform profiling of multi-regional metastases in autopsies from 10 patients with therapy-resistant breast cancer. The integrated genomic and immune landscapes show that metastases propagate and evolve as communities of clones, reveal their predicted neo-antigen landscapes, and show that they can accumulate HLA loss of heterozygosity (LOH). The data further identify variable tumor microenvironments and reveal, through analyses of T cell receptor repertoires, that adaptive immune responses appear to co-evolve with the metastatic genomes. These findings reveal in fine detail the landscapes of lethal metastatic breast cancer.