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Luke A Yates

Senior Research Associate and ISSF alumni
Verified email at imperial.ac.uk
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[HTML][HTML] The long and short of microRNA

LA Yates, CJ Norbury, RJC Gilbert - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are versatile regulators of gene expression in higher eukaryotes. In
order to silence many different mRNAs in a precise manner, miRNA stability and efficacy is …

Community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization: 5-year prospective study

TJ Marrie, H Durant, L Yates - Reviews of infectious diseases, 1989 - academic.oup.com
We studied all patients with community-acquired pneumonia who were admitted to our 800-
bed adult acute care hospital from 1 November 1981 to 15 March 1987. The 719 patients …

Evolution of the cancer genome

LR Yates, PJ Campbell - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
The advent of massively parallel sequencing technologies has allowed the characterization
of cancer genomes at an unprecedented resolution. Investigation of the mutational …

Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

LB Alexandrov, S Nik-Zainal, DC Wedge… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
All cancers are caused by somatic mutations; however, understanding of the biological
processes generating these mutations is limited. The catalogue of somatic mutations from a …

Landscape of somatic mutations in 560 breast cancer whole-genome sequences

…, P Vermeulen, A Vincent-Salomon, L Yates… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
We analysed whole-genome sequences of 560 breast cancers to advance understanding of
the driver mutations conferring clonal advantage and the mutational processes generating …

The landscape of cancer genes and mutational processes in breast cancer

PJ Stephens, PS Tarpey, H Davies, P Van Loo… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
All cancers carry somatic mutations in their genomes. A subset, known as driver mutations,
confer clonal selective advantage on cancer cells and are causally implicated in …

Subclonal diversification of primary breast cancer revealed by multiregion sequencing

LR Yates, M Gerstung, S Knappskog, C Desmedt… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
The sequencing of cancer genomes may enable tailoring of therapeutics to the underlying
biological abnormalities driving a particular patient's tumor. However, sequencing-based …

HRDetect is a predictor of BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficiency based on mutational signatures

H Davies, D Glodzik, S Morganella, LR Yates, J Staaf… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Approximately 1–5% of breast cancers are attributed to inherited mutations in
BRCA1 or BRCA2 and are selectively sensitive to poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) …

Spatial and temporal diversity in genomic instability processes defines lung cancer evolution

…, N McGranahan, R Mitter, M Salm, DC Wedge, L Yates… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Spatial and temporal dissection of the genomic changes occurring during the evolution of
human non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may help elucidate the basis for its dismal …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic evolution of breast cancer metastasis and relapse

LR Yates, S Knappskog, D Wedge, JHR Farmery… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Patterns of genomic evolution between primary and metastatic breast cancer have not been
studied in large numbers, despite patients with metastatic breast cancer having dismal …