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SUBMITTER: Van Allen EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4527885 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Van Allen Eliezer M EM Golay Hadrien G HG Liu Yan Y Koyama Shohei S Wong Karrie K Taylor-Weiner Amaro A Giannakis Marios M Harden Maegan M Rojas-Rudilla Vanesa V Chevalier Aaron A Thai Tran T Lydon Christine C Mach Stacy S Avila Ada G AG Wong Joshua A JA Rabin Alexandra R AR Helmkamp Joshua J Sholl Lynette L Carter Scott L SL Oxnard Geoffrey G Janne Pasi P Getz Gad G Lindeman Neal N Hammerman Peter S PS Garraway Levi A LA Hodi F Stephen FS Rodig Scott J SJ Dranoff Glenn G Wong Kwok-Kin KK Barbie David A DA
Cancer immunology research 20150526 8
PD-1 immune checkpoint blockade occasionally results in durable clinical responses in advanced metastatic cancers. However, mechanism-based predictors of response to this immunotherapy remain incompletely characterized. We performed comprehensive genomic profiling on a tumor and germline sample from a patient with refractory lung adenocarcinoma who achieved marked long-term clinical benefit from anti-PD-L1 therapy. We discovered activating somatic and germline amino acid variants in JAK3 that pr ...[more]