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Dr George D Cresswell

St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute
Verified email at ccri.at
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Pervasive chromosomal instability and karyotype order in tumour evolution

…, M Dietzen, L Spain, GD Cresswell, D Biswas… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability in cancer consists of dynamic changes to the number and structure
of chromosomes 1 , 2 . The resulting diversity in somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic plasticity and genetic control in colorectal cancer evolution

J Househam, T Heide, GD Cresswell, I Spiteri… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic and epigenetic variation, together with transcriptional plasticity, contribute to
intratumour heterogeneity 1 . The interplay of these biological processes and their respective …

[HTML][HTML] The co-evolution of the genome and epigenome in colorectal cancer

T Heide, J Househam, GD Cresswell, I Spiteri, C Lynn… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Colorectal malignancies are a leading cause of cancer-related death 1 and have undergone
extensive genomic study 2 , 3 . However, DNA mutations alone do not fully explain …

Subclonal reconstruction of tumors by using machine learning and population genetics

…, D Nichol, K Chkhaidze, W Cross, GD Cresswell… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Most cancer genomic data are generated from bulk samples composed of mixtures of
cancer subpopulations, as well as normal cells. Subclonal reconstruction methods based on …

[HTML][HTML] Exploiting evolutionary steering to induce collateral drug sensitivity in cancer

…, D Nichol, J Fernandez-Mateos, GD Cresswell… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Drug resistance mediated by clonal evolution is arguably the biggest problem in cancer
therapy today. However, evolving resistance to one drug may come at a cost of decreased …

[HTML][HTML] Intra-tumor genetic heterogeneity in Wilms tumor: clonal evolution and clinical implications

GD Cresswell, JR Apps, T Chagtai, B Mifsud… - …, 2016 - thelancet.com
The evolution of pediatric solid tumors is poorly understood. There is conflicting evidence of
intra-tumor genetic homogeneity vs. heterogeneity (ITGH) in a small number of studies in …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring single cell divisions in human tissues from multi-region sequencing data

…, D Temko, J Fernández-Mateos, GD Cresswell… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Both normal tissue development and cancer growth are driven by a branching process of
cell division and mutation accumulation that leads to intra-tissue genetic heterogeneity. …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the breast cancer metastatic cascade onto ctDNA using genetic and epigenetic clonal tracking

GD Cresswell, D Nichol, I Spiteri, H Tari… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) allows tracking of the evolution of human cancers at high
resolution, overcoming many limitations of tissue biopsies. However, exploiting ctDNA to …

EGFR amplification and outcome in a randomised phase III trial of chemotherapy alone or chemotherapy plus panitumumab for advanced gastro-oesophageal …

…, K Kouvelakis, J Fernandez-Mateos, GD Cresswell… - Gut, 2021 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibition may be effective in biomarker-selected
populations of advanced gastro-oesophageal adenocarcinoma (aGEA) patients. …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term Multimodal Recording Reveals Epigenetic Adaptation Routes in Dormant Breast Cancer Cells

…, H Phillips, C James, B Győrffy, C Lynn, GD Cresswell… - Cancer Discovery, 2024 - AACR
This study advances the understanding of therapy-induced dormancy with potential clinical
implications for breast cancer. Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells adapt to …