Discovering the drivers of clonal hematopoiesis

Oriol Pich, Iker Reyes-Salazar, Abel Gonzalez-Perez () and Nuria Lopez-Bigas ()
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Oriol Pich: The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac
Iker Reyes-Salazar: The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac
Abel Gonzalez-Perez: The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac
Nuria Lopez-Bigas: The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Mutations in genes that confer a selective advantage to hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) drive clonal hematopoiesis (CH). While some CH drivers have been identified, the compendium of all genes able to drive CH upon mutations in HSCs remains incomplete. Exploiting signals of positive selection in blood somatic mutations may be an effective way to identify CH driver genes, analogously to cancer. Using the tumor sample in blood/tumor pairs as reference, we identify blood somatic mutations across more than 12,000 donors from two large cancer genomics cohorts. The application of IntOGen, a driver discovery pipeline, to both cohorts, and more than 24,000 targeted sequenced samples yields a list of close to 70 genes with signals of positive selection in CH, available at http://www.intogen.org/ch . This approach recovers known CH genes, and discovers other candidates.

Date: 2022
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