Anna Casasent
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Anna Casasent has a total of 55 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Nicholas E. Navin
Department of Systems Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
21 shared publications - Chenling Tang
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77024, USA
18 shared publications - Darlan Conterno Minussi
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 1 Department of Systems Biology Houston, Texas
18 shared publications - Emi Sei
Department of Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
18 shared publications - Franziska Michor
Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
18 shared publications - Hanghui Ye
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 1 Department of Systems Biology Houston, Texas
18 shared publications
Latest Publications
- Open Access
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 1 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S1. Macro-dissection of tumors and analyses of CNA burden and DNA ploidy.
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 1 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S1. Macro-dissection of tumors and analyses of CNA burden and DNA ploidy.
- Open Access
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Data from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Aneuploidy is a hallmark of human tumors. Although patient-level copy-number alteration (CNA) differences have been investigated extensively in large cohorts, their intratumoral heterogeneity remains understudied. In this study, we conducted a pan-cancer analysis of 94 human tumors at single-cell resolution, representing seven cancer types: bladder, breast, colon, glioblastoma, kidney, lung, and ovarian. Single-cell copy-number profiling was used to analyze 62,646 aneuploid cells, in addition to bulk exome sequencing of most patients and single-nucleus RNA sequencing of six samples. In many cancer types, increased subclonal diversity was associated with higher CNA burden, whole-genome doubling (WGD), TP53 mutations, and increased geographic diversity. Cancer cells from each patient shared a set of truncal CNAs, suggesting evolution from a single ancestral cell. Many tumors accumulated CNAs in bursts of evolution, suggesting that punctuated evolution is common in diverse cancer types. This study greatly improves our knowledge of intratumoral chromosome diversity across human cancers. Significance:This study presents one of the largest pan-cancer single-cell DNA sequencing analyses, profiling intratumoral copy-number heterogeneity across seven major cancer types. The data identified punctuated evolution, clonal origins, subclonal WGD, spatial heterogeneity, and associations between copy-number and transcriptional diversity, with implications for both cancer diagnosis and treatment.
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessData from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Aneuploidy is a hallmark of human tumors. Although patient-level copy-number alteration (CNA) differences have been investigated extensively in large cohorts, their intratumoral heterogeneity remains understudied. In this study, we conducted a pan-cancer analysis of 94 human tumors at single-cell resolution, representing seven cancer types: bladder, breast, colon, glioblastoma, kidney, lung, and ovarian. Single-cell copy-number profiling was used to analyze 62,646 aneuploid cells, in addition to bulk exome sequencing of most patients and single-nucleus RNA sequencing of six samples. In many cancer types, increased subclonal diversity was associated with higher CNA burden, whole-genome doubling (WGD), TP53 mutations, and increased geographic diversity. Cancer cells from each patient shared a set of truncal CNAs, suggesting evolution from a single ancestral cell. Many tumors accumulated CNAs in bursts of evolution, suggesting that punctuated evolution is common in diverse cancer types. This study greatly improves our knowledge of intratumoral chromosome diversity across human cancers. Significance:This study presents one of the largest pan-cancer single-cell DNA sequencing analyses, profiling intratumoral copy-number heterogeneity across seven major cancer types. The data identified punctuated evolution, clonal origins, subclonal WGD, spatial heterogeneity, and associations between copy-number and transcriptional diversity, with implications for both cancer diagnosis and treatment.
- Open Access
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 11 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S11. Association of the punctuated evolution index with metadata.
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 11 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S11. Association of the punctuated evolution index with metadata.
- Open Access
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 2 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S2. Clonal substructure of bladder and breast cancers and comparison of subclone number and MPD.
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 2 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S2. Clonal substructure of bladder and breast cancers and comparison of subclone number and MPD.
- Open Access
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 3 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S3. Clonal diversity indexes and associations with metadata.
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 3 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S3. Clonal diversity indexes and associations with metadata.
- Open Access
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 10 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S10. In situ spatial copy number analysis with ST data.
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 10 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S10. In situ spatial copy number analysis with ST data.
- Open Access
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 12 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S12. Association of evolutionary metrics with clinical metadata.
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 12 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S12. Association of evolutionary metrics with clinical metadata.
- Open Access
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 4 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S4. CIN and mutational signatures and their association with copy number ITH.
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 4 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S4. CIN and mutational signatures and their association with copy number ITH.
- Open Access
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 5 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S5. Relationship between genomic ITH and transcriptional heterogeneity in lung cancers.
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 5 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S5. Relationship between genomic ITH and transcriptional heterogeneity in lung cancers.
- Open Access
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 6 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S6. MPD correlations with clinical metadata.
- 2 November 2026
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 6 from A Pan-Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of Intratumoral Copy-Number Diversity and Evolution
Supplementary Fig. S6. MPD correlations with clinical metadata.