Naser Ansari-Pour, Yonglan Zheng, Toshio F Yoshimatsu, Ayodele Sanni, Mustapha Ajani, Jean-Baptiste Reynier, Avraam Tapinos, Jason J Pitt, Stefan Dentro, Anna Woodard, Padma Sheila Rajagopal, Dominic Fitzgerald, Andreas J Gruber, Abayomi Odetunde, Abiodun Popoola, Adeyinka G Falusi, Chinedum Peace Babalola, Temidayo Ogundiran, Nasiru Ibrahim, Jordi Barretina, Peter Van Loo, Mengjie Chen, Kevin P White, Oladosu Ojengbede, John Obafunwa, Dezheng Huo, David C Wedge, Olufunmilayo I Olopade
Black women across the African diaspora experience more aggressive breast cancer with higher mortality rates than white women of European ancestry. Although inter-ethnic germline variation is known, differential somatic evolution has not been investigated in detail. Analysis of deep whole genomes of 97 breast cancers, with RNA-seq in a subset, from women in Nigeria in comparison with The Cancer Genome Atlas (n = 76) reveal a higher rate of genomic instability and increased intra-tumoral heterogeneity as well as a unique genomic subtype defined by early clonal GATA3 mutations with a 10...
November 26, 2021: Nature Communications